[chessplayer]

So much for the once touted health benefits of seafood and Omega-3. It's not just supplements, but eating fish itself. Looks like eating fish as often as only once a week is unhealthy. The low rate of cancer in Asian peoples was always credited to their high intake of Omega-3/seafood. Maybe it's something else in their diet thats been overlooked, and it's not the seafood. Something else thats counteracting the Omega-3.

[lightman]

Life is fatal.

[Bratch]

FWIW, my doctor just took me off fish oil supplements after several years of ingesting 4000 mg daily.

I have a family history of heart problems and am on cholesterol medicine.

[redcatcherb412]

I will keep taking mine.
My annual CT following the growth of an aortic aneurysm found a 70-80% blocked kidney artery. My daughter (an ER trauma nurse) told me to take Krill oil. Within 2 years the artery blockage reduced first to 60%, then disappeared altogether. Color me a believer that antioxidants in the omega-3 kill free radicals that cause artery buildup.

[HotKat]

This kind of stuff is irritating.
There is a 100% increase in death after birth. That’s not giving birth, but being born. We’re gonna die!

[AnotherUnixGeek]

So much for the once touted health benefits of seafood and Omega-3. It's not just supplements, but eating fish itself. Looks like eating fish as often as only once a week is unhealthy. The low rate of cancer in Asian peoples was always credited to their high intake of Omega-3/seafood.

I don't see the evidence for any of this, nor have the scientists who performed the study made any such claims. The study found a correlation between Omega-3 levels in the blood and the incidence of prostate cancer. The study did not target people who eat fish or take Omega-3 supplements, and in fact men taking supplements would have far higher levels than those in the study - for all we know, men who have a genetic pre-disposition to develop prostate cancer also have some genetic pre-disposition to accumulate slightly higher levels of Omega-3 fatty acids in their blood from any foods in their diet.

The news media loves to draw sweeping, dramatic conclusions from scientific studies they don't understand - Exhibit A being global warming. I'll continue to have my smoked salmon for breakfast.

[who_would_fardels_bear]

Some time ago there was a scare with regard to L-trytophan.

It ended up not being the L-tryptophan, but the impurities in some of the supplements that contained it.

So for years L-trytophan got a bad name.

I don't know enough about Omega-3's and their manufacturers, but it could be that Omega-3 is fine, it's just that it's combined with crap.

The supplement industry refuses to be regulated. Every study that has come out in the past few years basically says supplements are bogus. My guess is that well made supplements can provide benefits, but there is so much junk on the market that the average effect is either neutral or negative.

Not that the FDA is such a great organization, but if the few quality supplement manufacturers would agree to be regulated by the FDA and provide decent products at reasonable prices they might start getting good press and good test results and distance themselves from the charlatans that cry 'free market, free market' whenever anyone challenges the safety and effectiveness of their products.

[Secret Agent Man]

the seaweed they eat is anti-cancer.

[Eepsy]

The first thing that springs to my mind is that nearly all men get prostate cancer if they live long enough. What was the age spread of the cohort being studied? I’d be the interested in knowing the average age of the cancer suffering omega-3 supplementer compared to the average age of the non-supplementer. Anybody know if the study took into account whether subjects started supplementing while believing themselves in good health versus those who used supplements to correct already present issues (not necessarily cancer)?

[indthkr]

Suspicious study bump for later........

[lmsii]

Everything in moderation except alcohol and sex and you will live a happy life (largely do to the alcohol and sex).

[Gator113]

If true, I’m a goner.

[SE Mom]

http://www.omegavia.com/fish-oil-and-prostate-health/

This is where I get my fish oil and the article the owner of the company wrote is worthwhile reading.

[GOPJ]

The low rate of cancer in Asian peoples was always credited to their high intake of Omega-3/seafood. Maybe it's something else in their diet thats been overlooked...

Maybe it's a combination of genes and food - or genes and attitude or genes and fetal birth weight... we know so little...

[Colinsky]

Heck, I’ve been taking fish oil and vitamin E for forty years, and I’m as healthy as a ho

[fortheDeclaration]

“In general, there is nothing that has been proven to actually limit the risk of prostate cancer,” said Lowe, who was not involved in the study.

[count-your-change]

By carefully studying the news I've determined that cell phones, high power lines, over cooked meat, under cooked meat, baked goods, plastic bottles, pasteurization, wheat, corn, coffee and most things with two syllables cause some kinds of cancer. But then so does the lack of them.

[Gene Eric]

What, not enough food for the whales?

[Zionist Conspirator]

Dang. I’ve been taking fish oil for years, and I have an ultrasound next Monday to see if I have prostate cancer.

[Coleus]

I’ve been taking fish oil for decades and one poorly-done study isn’t going to change my mind.