“Omega-3 Fish Oil Loses Support”
Things have been getting tough for dietary supplements across the board. The more we submit them to rigorous scientific testing, the more failures we find. Such is becoming the case with omega-3 fish oil. Even recently, we were talking about the “fish oil craze” and the “fish oil gold rush.” But, those days are fading fast in light of accumulating studies in which fish oil has failed to live up to its hyped predictions, especially as it relates to cancer, heart disease and Alzheimer’s disease. The latest bad news is a Japanese study of over 18,000 men which showed that, “Fish intake was significantly associated with an increased risk of prostate cancer; men who consumed fish more than four times per week had a 54% increased risk of developing prostate cancer compared with men who ate fish less than twice per week.”
