What are the main benefits of controlling inflammation? First we need to understand what inflammation is.

Inflammation is a powerful and ancient immune response designed to protect us from all the various forms of bacteria and viruses. You can see inflammation in your skin as a reddish area surrounding a healing cut. This is your immune system fighting a pitched battle with outer body invaders. It does a very good job of keeping us safe.

If this immune response kicks-in but doesn't shut down. This creates chronic inflammation which will eventual lead to deadly ilness. Science has learned this chronic inflammation is the cause (one way or another) of all major disease.

Initiating diseases like Cancer, Type 2 Diabetes, Rheumatoid Arthritis, and Heart Disease.

Tests have been developed to measure the amount of inflammation within our bodies. The C-reactive protein tests.

The major benefits of controlling inflammation is you lessen the chance of developing any of the inflammation based diseases. Control inflammation and you reduce your chance of being afflicted.

So how can we reduce or eliminate this chronic condition?

There are foods and minor medications that really do help. Aspirin is a terrific help. Foods rich in omega 3s are an outstanding anti-inflammatory. But not just any omega 3 -- DHA (docosahexaenoic acid) omega 3 which is found mainly in fish oil.

In Japan where people eat twice as much fish as in North America the incidents of atherosclerosis (harding of the arteries) is much less. A lot of people don't eat fish, because they don't like it.

Well wouldn't you know -- there is a solution. Many manufactueres make fish oil supplements--only a small number make supurb quality. This makes it easy for those who won't eat fish to get their fish oil every day.

Here is where you must do your homework--there are numerous choices on the market. You need to make sure your omega 3 fish oil supplement contains mainly DHA and EPA and not ALA omega 3s (which is a plant based omega 3 that your body must convert to be useable).

The supplement you take must be made from only the skin and flesh of the fish -- never the internal organs, which concentrate toxins. Second the fish oil supplement you take needs to be purified with only the best purification technique--'molecular distillation'.

High quality Omega 3 DHA fish oil capsules are very handy and very inexpensive. Plus you avoid the toxins normally associated with eating a lot of fish.

A great benefit to controlling inflammation is how simple it is to do. Start with your fish oil capsules today!