Krill Oil Reduces Ill Effects of High-Fat Diet

...The study results showed that feeding a high-fat diet to mice compared to animals given a low-fat diet led to an elevation of endocannabinoids (EC), lipid messengers that can activate specific receptors, thereby influencing not only enzyme activities, but also appetite, energy balance, mood, memory, and pain perception. In doing so, the EC system contributes to visceral fat accumulation. Superba krill oil was able to counteract the high fat diet-induced changes in EC levels after eight weeks of treatment. In addition to reducing EC levels in several different tissues, administration of krill oil also exerted lowering effects on triglyceride, cholesterol and a marker of inflammation...