KANSAS CITY, Mo. Preventive Cardiologist Dr. James OKeefe recently announced a new, environmentally-friendly Omega 3 product called CardioTabs Ocean Safe Omega 3 made from sustainable marine oil in time for American Heart Month ( oceansafeomega3.com ). The news coincides with national headlines from major media organizations such as the New York Times as well as top environmental, wellness and health care bloggers regarding the increased demand for omega 3 rich foods and oils and the environmental strain its imposing on our oceans ecosystems.

According to Dr. James OKeefe, CardioTabs Ocean Safe Omega 3 is necessary. If you eat fish once a day or two, three times a day, you end up with high mercury levels. So its a catch twenty-two. If you eat enough omega 3 from fish in your diet, you end up with too many toxic contaminants in your system -- at least in some instances, said OKeefe. We (CardioTabs) have very pure, proven natural supplements that will get our [omega 3] levels back up to normal. If you are deficient in an essential nutrient, thats a problem. One of the [most] predictable deficiencies in most Americans is that they are deficient in omega 3.

Preventive Cardiologist Dr. James OKeefe is a native of North Dakota and graduate of the Baylor College of Medicine. He completed both his cardiovascular fellowship and medicine residency at the Mayo Graduate School of Medicine in Rochester, Minn. He is board-certified in cardiovascular disease and in internal medicine and is a fellow of the American College of Cardiology and the AHA Council of Clinical Cardiology. Dr. O'Keefe is in clinical practice with Cardiovascular Consultants of the Mid-America Heart Institute and is heavily involved with clinical research, with over 300 peer-reviewed publications and several books to his credit.