Last week, Mara was one of ten companies named as 2023 Canada’s Sustainability Changemakers by STDC.
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The old vision for sourcing our daily diet is showing its limits. It’s time for a Re-vision of the world’s food systems by amplifying the original source of all life… Plants. Time to Re-power nature’s pantry using advanced science. To Re-imagine our approach to global nutritional deficits.
Now is the time to Re-vitalize the world’s oceans by sourcing sustainable plant-based technologies to replace our depleting natural resources.
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In 1971, a team of Danish researchers found that an Inuit population in Greenland had lower cholesterol levels and incidence of heart disease than Danes and Inuits who lived in Denmark. A theory arose: The indigenous people’s high marine-fat diet gave them heart protections.
Since then, fish oil and omega-3 fatty acids — the health-boosting star component of fish oil — have been the subject of tens of thousands of papers exploring their health benefits.
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Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency (ACOA) announced Government of Canada support to help Mara maximize efficiency, cut production costs and take advantage of new market opportunities.
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Marine-derived omega-3 fatty acids have a stronger punch than flaxseed and other oils in cancer prevention, being eight times more effective at inhibiting tumor development and growth, according to researchers.
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If you`ve ever considered popping a pill of omega 3s, it’s probably been for your heart. After all, the American Heart Association says that the good-for-you fatty acids can reduce triglyceride levels, keep your arteries clear, and ward off irregular heartbeats.
And while no athlete is hitting a new PR without a healthy heart, the in-the-gym, on-the-field benefits of omega 3s go so much further.
Read MoreVegetarians are likely to have lower intakes of preformed docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) than omnivorous populations who consume fish and animal products. As such, vegetarian populations have omega-3 indices up to 60% lower than those who consume marine products. Algae, the primary producer of DHA in the marine food chain, offer an alternative source of DHA...
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Data from 51 randomized controlled trials support the ability of the omega-3s eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) and docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) to reduce heart rate, report researchers from Soochow University (China) and DSM Nutritional Products.
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