Health & Views –February 2020 – 1st issue By Harold Gunatillake Download the PDF file . ...
Health & Views –February 2020 – 1st issue By Harold Gunatillake Download the PDF file . ...
Good advice by Dr Harold – Is Fish Oil another Snake Oil? Talk of the town was coconuts sometime back, how bad it was for the humans, and one lady professor claimed it was poison. Now the focus is on fish oil that has been popular and believed to lower the risk of inflammatory diseases, heart disease, stroke, and improve the intelligence of kids, among others. A recent study on 15,000 people in the UK published in the New England Journal of Medicine, revealed that participants taking a daily capsule of omega-3 fish oil did suffer from heart attack and stroke as much as people not taking any fish oil. The study revealed that 8.9 per cent of the people given the fish oil capsules suffered a heart attack or stroke, compared to 9.2 percent in a placebo group, and the difference is marginal. This study was done on diabetics, and not on others. The question is will ...
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