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Fish
High in protein, low in saturated fat, and loaded with omega-3 fatty acids, the AHA recommends Americans consume at least two servings of fatty fish per week. Omega-3 fatty acids are believed to confer heart-health benefits for those with and without a high risk or diagnosis of CVD. Consuming fish rich in omega-3s may decrease the risk of cardiac arrhythmias, which can lead to sudden death; decrease triglyceride levels; slow the growth rate of atherosclerotic plaque; and modestly reduce blood pressure.5 Results of a large, prospective cohort of healthy young women aged 15 to 47 by Strøm and colleagues, published in the January 2012 issue of Hypertension, revealed that people who consume little or no fish and omega-3 fatty acids have an increased risk of developing CVD.6
Brill agrees that fatty fish consumption is remarkably beneficial and strongly recommends eating wild salmon, which she says works wonders for cardiovascular health by targeting what’s known in the medical arena as the “trilogy of vulnerability”—vulnerable plaque, vulnerable blood, and electrical disturbances such as arrhythmias. “The omega-3 fat in salmon targets all three in the trilogy—it stabilizes vulnerable plaque and prevents arrhythmia,” Brill says. “It also lowers our triglycerides and acts as an anti-inflammatory and as a blood thinner, so our blood is less likely to clot” (see Resources for Burillo et al).
“We know that regularly eating fatty fish can reduce your risk of dying prematurely from heart disease,” Salge Blake confirms, “but there’s another reason why the AHA recommends two meals per week of fatty fish to benefit heart health. When we choose to eat fish, we know we’re getting a food that’s low in unhealthful saturated fat, is a great source of protein, and is potentially displacing another less healthful protein source such as fatty meat or poultry with skin. So you’re getting two for the price of one in terms of heart-health benefits.”
Given the wide availability of fish, Salge Blake says Americans have few excuses to not eat it. “People often have perceived barriers to consuming fish such as the people who they dine with—including family members—who aren’t fish lovers. Now manufacturers have done an unbelievable job of making fatty fish something you can easily consume. It’s much easier to get in two fish meals per week, and those meals don’t have to be dinner. Look for cans or pouches of fish to go on salads and bring it to work for lunch.”
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Pig industry sustains livelihoods of many families in Kenya. Pig rearing has been one of wellestablishedindustry
in Kenya following growing export markets and increasing number of health
conscious consumers. Pig production if efficiently managed has great potentials for increasing
protein supply in Kenya. Smallholder pig farms in Tharaka-Nithi County have been facing
varying and dismal profits. The main objective of this study will be to establish which
institutional arrangements and management factors affect the profit efficiency of small-holder
pig farmers in Tharaka-Nithi County. A multi-stage purposive sampling technique will be
adopted to collect cross sectional data of eighty (80) smallholder pig farmers in Maara
Constituency by the use of semi-structured interview schedules. The work will employ Data
Envelopment Analysis to come up with profit efficiency rankings among the farmers and
stochastic frontier profit function will be used to analyze the factors that affect profit efficiency.
The data will be processed using STATA and DEA Frontier packages. The findings could be
useful to the stakeholders of the pig industry sub sector to formulate policies pertaining to pig
enterprise inputs, marketing issues and financial products and also can establish benchmarks
which can be used as a package for enhancing and stabilizing profit efficiencies of smallholder
pig farmers which in turn could help improve the Kenya economy.
An Overview of Livestock Sub-sector in Kenya Perspectives, Opportunities and Innovations for Market Access for Market Access for Pastoral Producers Recent statistics point that the livestock sub-sector in Kenya accounts for approximately 10% of the National Gross Domestic Product (GDP). This is 30% of the agricultural GDP. It employs about 50% of the national agricultural workforce and about 90% of the ASAL workforce. 95% of ASAL household income comes from this sub-sector. This is despite the fact that the sector receives only 1 % of the total annual budget allocation. The livestock resource base is estimated at 60 million units comprising of 29 million indigenous and exotic chicken, 10 million beef cattle, 3 million dairy and dairy crosses, 9 million goats, 7 million sheep, 0.8 mi camels, 0.52 mi donkeys and 0.3 million pigs. (Strategy for Revitalizing Agriculture (SRA) 2003) Kenya is broadly self-sufficient in most livestock products but is a net importer of red meat mostly inform of on-the-hoof animals trekked across the porous boundaries of neighbouring countries- Somalia, Ethiopia, Sudan, Uganda and Tanzania. Livestock supply in Kenya results from a complex set of interactions between Kenya and its neighbours and the traditional Middle East market and their respective livestock populations, demand and market prices. Kenya is part of a regional market where livestock flow according to markets and price differentials in a liberalized system throughout the region as a whole and where Nairobi represents a focus of demand for the region Supply of red-meat from domestic cattle, shoats and camels falls short of demand, and is almost permanently augmented by a traditional livestock trade drawn in from neighbouring countries, especially Somalia, Tanzania, Sudan and Ethiopia in varying quantities according to demand, which maintains a supply/demand
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