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Article: Fish Oil May Ease The Blues
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- July 19, 1995
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There's nothing new about claims that eating too little fish
makes you more vulnerable to heart disease and inflammatory diseases
such as rheumatoid arthritis. But depression?
Yes. Many researchers now suspect that a brain imbalance of
fatty acids, mainly of a type found in fish, may also make people
more vulnerable to depression. Australian researcher Andrew J.
Sinclair, of the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, says there
is much evidence linking depression to low levels of omega-3 fatty
acids, found in fish, as well as high levels of a vegetable fatty
acid called omega-6. Most Americans eat seven times more omega-6s,
concentrated in corn oil and margarine, than fishy omega-3s.
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