New medical studies say fish with Omega-3 fatty acids, including mackerel, herring, and salmon, have many health benefits. Mayo Clinic cites these benefits in an article, “How Eating Fish Helps Your Heart.” The benefits: brain development in children, decreasing triglycerides, lowering blood pressure, enhancing the immune system, and reducing the risk of sudden heart attack. There are lots of benifits so get your wife cooking with all those Salmon recipes now.

The Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute lists additional benefits on its Web site. “The Omega-3 oils found in certain types of seafood, including Alaska salmon, have been linked to improvements in or prevention of certain kinds of cancer, ulcerative colitis, psoriasis, arthritis, asthma, certain kinds of mental illness, depression and lupis,” the site notes.

You can make some healthy food at home which tastes great too, so why go out and spend more.