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Fish Oil for Heart Attack Prevention: Is It a Myth?

A new study finds that omega-3 fatty acids don't help patients with heart disease avoid future heart-related problems.

Does Your Sperm Need a Diet? Fatty Foods Linked to Poor Sperm Quality

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Gentlemen, you may want to hold the bacon. A new study suggests that eating a high-fat diet may be associated with lower sperm quality.

Omega-3s May Guard Against Brain Decline

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In the first study of its kind, researchers link blood levels of healthy fats to brain size and memory loss.

How Your Diet May Affect Your Risk of Alzheimer’s Disease

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Omega-3s and vitamins may protect your brain’s function and size.

Brain Food: Eating Fish May Lower Your Risk of Alzheimer’s

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Eating fish is good for the heart, and now new evidence suggests it may do the brain some good as well.

Study: Fish Oil May Prevent Symptoms of Postpartum Depression

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Postpartum depression can affect up to 25% of new mothers during the first year after delivery, but researchers say there may be a relatively easy way to lower that risk — starting before women give birth.

Study: Fish Oil Pills Don’t Stall Alzheimer’s

Ted Morrison

There was good reason to believe that fish oil, which has been linked to health benefits for the heart, might also work its medical magic on the brain, particularly with Alzheimer’s disease. Preliminary studies hinted that people with higher levels of fish oil in their blood were less likely to develop Alzheimer’s, while animal experiments [...]

Fish oil may help prevent onset of psychosis

For patients at very high risk for developing a psychiatric disorder such as schizophrenia, taking fish oil supplements may be a way to prevent the onset of psychosis, according to a new study published in the Archives of General Psychiatry. Due to the controversial nature of using anti-psychotic drugs as a preventive treatment for at-risk [...]

Got Fish Oil?

Mounting evidence supports the healthy-heart benefits of omega-3 fatty acids. You’ve probably heard of them before; they’re the fatty acids found in fish or fish-oil supplements. This month, a group of scientists writing in the Journal of the American College of Cardiologyhas gone back to review decades’ worth of past studies on the fatty acids’ [...]