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Fool’s gold: what fish oil is doing to our health and the planet
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<blockquote data-quote="cheryl" data-source="post: 217" data-attributes="member: 1"><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2018/jul/25/fish-oil-hype-health-planet-supplements-study-no-benefit" target="_blank"><strong>Fool’s gold: what fish oil is doing to our health and the planet - The Guardian</strong></a></p><p></p><p>Omega-3 is one of our favourite supplements – but a huge new study has found it has little or no benefit for heart health or strokes. How did it become a $30bn business?</p><p></p><p>The omega-3 industry is in a twist. Again. Last week, <a href="https://www.cochrane.org/news/new-cochrane-health-evidence-challenges-belief-omega-3-supplements-reduce-risk-heart-disease" target="_blank">Cochrane</a>, an organisation that compiles and evaluates medical research for the general public, released a meta-analysis – a study of studies – to determine whether or not omega-3 pills, one of the world’s most popular dietary supplements, reduced the risk of coronary heart disease. After comparing 79 trials involving 112,059 people, the researchers could find “little or no difference to risk of cardiovascular events, coronary heart deaths, coronary heart disease events, stroke or heart irregularities”.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cheryl, post: 217, member: 1"] [URL='https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2018/jul/25/fish-oil-hype-health-planet-supplements-study-no-benefit'][B]Fool’s gold: what fish oil is doing to our health and the planet - The Guardian[/B][/URL] Omega-3 is one of our favourite supplements – but a huge new study has found it has little or no benefit for heart health or strokes. How did it become a $30bn business? The omega-3 industry is in a twist. Again. Last week, [URL='https://www.cochrane.org/news/new-cochrane-health-evidence-challenges-belief-omega-3-supplements-reduce-risk-heart-disease']Cochrane[/URL], an organisation that compiles and evaluates medical research for the general public, released a meta-analysis – a study of studies – to determine whether or not omega-3 pills, one of the world’s most popular dietary supplements, reduced the risk of coronary heart disease. After comparing 79 trials involving 112,059 people, the researchers could find “little or no difference to risk of cardiovascular events, coronary heart deaths, coronary heart disease events, stroke or heart irregularities”. [/QUOTE]
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