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Fish Oil: No Panacea for Heart Disease; Doctors Say Change In Diet Is Needed
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The Washington Post
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October 11, 1987
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Worried that fish oil has become this year's snake oil,
scientists meeting here last week warned there would be no shortcuts
out of America's epidemic of heart disease.
Ever since researchers reported that Eskimos who consumed
enormous quantities of fatty fish had almost no heart disease,
Americans have looked to fish oil supplements as a way to ward off
the nation's No. 1 killer.
There is no question that eating fish is healthful. But at a
Massachusetts Institute of Technology conference to discuss the
health effects of the fats present in fish oil, called omega-3 fatty
acids, doctors said that Americans must change their diets to combat
heart disease. Fish oil supplements are not ...