How Does Fish Consumption Affect Food

Fish Consumption Improve Body Functions and Emotional Stability Lastly, eating fish can help to improve body functions and emotional stability. Intake of fish regularly, helps to protect and maintains the function of human’s organ such as brains, eyes, skins and hairs. As time goes on, man continues to grow and becoming old. Organs in the body also grew older and the function of the organs such as the eyes and brain started to deteriorate. Elder people usually seen wearing spectacle to aid them reading. Forgetful peoples usually refer to these old people due to the deterioration of their brain that making it not functioning well. It was proven that a child, who his mother have high fish consumption during pregnancy, have high early childhood …show more content…
Emotional problems such as anxiety, stress and depression may lead to dementia. According to Milte, Sinn, Street, Buckley, Coates, Petkov and Howe, (2011), they stated that “increased DHA was significantly associated with improved self-reported physical functioning on the SF-36, and those subscales, improved bodily pain was associated with improved depressive symptoms” (p.1682). This indicates that the increase in DHA from fish consumption contributed to improved mood of the consumer. Improved mood will indirectly relief people from stress and depression. As a conclusion, it is clear that consuming more fish would give several good effects to human, physically and mentally. Physically, fish helps to lengthen the life span of the one who eat them by reducing the risk of getting diseases, improving the function of organs and providing nutrients that are essential to the body. Emotionally, fish helps to improve sleep quality by increasing the secretion of serotonin in the body which indirectly helps to reduce stress and depression. Hence, actions need to be taken to encourage people to take more fish in their meal. Japan can be taken as a role model because Japanese people created their own cuisine or recipe for people to readily and happily eat fish. They created fish-based food such as sushi, which is consist of rice and fish like salmon, sashimi, which is purely the flesh of fresh fish that was thinly sliced, and unagi, a grilled and flavored eel (Ashkenazi & Jacob, 2003, p.10). These foods easily attract people to eat them, even children in Japan like to eat sushi. Thus, creating new recipe that will attract both young and elder people will surely increase the number of people consuming fish in their