“Medical journal: ‘Case closed’ against vitamin pills,” ran the headline in USA Today in 2013. But is it really? Two studies led to the headline. In the first, doctors who…
Tag: second heart attack
The American Heart Association recommends eating two servings of fish, preferably fatty fish like salmon, every week. But omega-3 claims show up on far more than fish. [HD] “Omega-3s supporting…
“Fish oil delivers few benefits, study finds,” reported ABCNews.com in April 2012. The news was a meta-analysis by Korean scientists of 14 trials conducted on more than 20,000 people that…
Low doses of omega-3 fats failed to lower the risk of a second heart attack in people who survived their first. Dutch researchers randomly assigned roughly 4,800 men and women…