{"id":255,"date":"2011-12-23T14:56:47","date_gmt":"2011-12-23T14:56:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/nutrition\/?p=255"},"modified":"2026-04-10T07:56:53","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T07:56:53","slug":"what-are-the-benefits-for-sportsmen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/nutrition\/omega\/benefits","title":{"rendered":"What are the benefits for sportsmen?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is much research emerging showing the benefits of fatty acids, including an interesting study undertaken in prisons in the United Kingdom showed a 35 per cent reduction of violent acts resulted when prisoners where simply given a nutritional supplement containing fatty acids.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Omega 3 &amp; 6 is of interest to those who partake in sports because it optimises the functioning of the heart, the blood circulation and use of fats for the muscles. Research concludes that Omega 3 &amp; 6 is favourable to optimise training and performance. There is also some evidence that intensive aerobic training augments the need for Omega 3.<\/p>\n<p>More about omega fatty acids:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Best source and dose\" href=\"http:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/nutrition\/omega\/best-source-dose\">What is the best source and what is the correct dose?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Side Effects and Legal aspects of Omega\" href=\"http:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/nutrition\/omega\/effects-legal-aspects\">Are they legal substances for athletes? <\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>source <strong><span style=\"color: #333366;\">Time-to-Run<\/span><\/strong> and Women&#8217;s Editor Cassandra Davis<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is much research emerging showing the benefits of fatty acids, including an interesting study undertaken in prisons in the United Kingdom showed a 35 per cent reduction of violent acts resulted when prisoners where simply given a nutritional supplement containing fatty acids.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":256,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7,57],"tags":[62,61,6,77],"class_list":["post-255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-omega","tag-benefits","tag-fatty-acids","tag-nutrition","tag-omega"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/nutrition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/nutrition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/nutrition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/nutrition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/nutrition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/nutrition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":702,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/nutrition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255\/revisions\/702"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/nutrition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/nutrition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/nutrition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/nutrition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}