Omega-3 fatty acids could help in the fight against obesity because they help people feel fuller for longer, a new study has revealed.
Researchers from the University of Navarra, University of Iceland and University College Cork conducted a study involving 232 overweight and obese people.
The participants were randomly given a balanced diet which was supplemented with either a low dose or a high dose of omega-3 for two months.
During the last two weeks of the study, those who had been on the high omega-3 dose had fewer hunger pangs.
The study also looked at blood samples and found that higher omega-3 concentration led to increased satiety in the participants.
Writing in the journal Appetite, the authors said: "The most important finding of this study is that subjects who eat a dinner rich in long chain omega-3 fatty acids feel less hunger and more full directly after and 2 hours after then their counterparts fed with the low long chain omega-3 fatty acids diet.
"This observation indicates that long chain omega-3 fatty acids modulate hunger signals."
Omega-3 fatty acids could help in the fight against obesity because they help people feel fuller for longer, a new study has revealed.
