See The American
Journal of Medicine, Sept. 2014, p. 848-857.
Thursday, October 16, 2014
Fish Consumption Cuts Heart Attacks
This fall I
was program chairman for a medical meeting that highlighted a debate between an
advocate of fish oil and one who preferred vegetable oils. This is a hot topic in alternative medicine
lately. The fish oil advocates are
supported by a meta-analysis of 408,305 subjects in the American Journal of
Medicine that showed a 5% reduction in risk of heart attacks for every 100 gram
serving of fish per week. The benefit
could have been even greater, in my opinion, if the patients had been monitored
and treated for mercury toxicity, which can happen when one eats a lot of
fish. Put me in the corner of the fish
advocates.
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