The fish-oil fad is fading
Medical wisdom about diet keeps getting overturned. One of the most enduring bits of "wisdom" is the multifarious benefits of fish oil. But it seems that even that may be a total myth. The latest review article in JAMA is: "The Unfulfilled Promise of ω-3 Fatty Acid Supplementation" by Gregory Curfman, MD. It is in JAMA Intern Med. doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2016.8236. A couple of extracts below:
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… in recent years with even the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reporting…
When the researchers corrected the data to take this "cold bias" into account, they concluded that the oceans had warmed 0.12C per decade since 2000, nearly twice as fast as previous estimates of 0.07 degrees.
As a result, the authors said that the warming experienced in the first 15 years of the 21st Century was "virtually indistinguishable" from the rate of warming between 1950-99, a time generally acknowledged to have seen significant rates of warming from human emissions of CO2.
The study did not go down well with climate sceptics. Members of the US House of Representatives subpoenaed the author's emails which Noaa refused to hand over.
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