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October, 2008

Children Whose Mothers Ate Fish in Pregnancy Are Less Hyperactive

Tuesday, October 7th, 2008

Many studies have reported a variety of desirable outcomes in children whose mothers ate fish during their pregnancy compared with children whose mothers did not eat fish. More recently, studies have noted better childhood performance scores when their mothers ate more fish than is recommended by the US government, i.e., more than 340 g (12 […]

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Women with Higher EPA Levels Have Fewer Nonfatal Coronary Events

Monday, October 6th, 2008

For reasons we do not understand, fish and fish oil consumption, which protects against heart disease mortality and sudden cardiac death, has little effect on the occurrence of nonfatal heart events in western populations. This is not the case among the Japanese, who consume nearly 10 times as much fish as westerners. The Japanese also […]

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Adventures in High-EPA Fish Oil