A Swedish cohort study found babies who ate fish before nine months had a 40 percent lower risk of recurrent wheezing. Broad-spectrum antibiotics in the first week of life doubled that risk and nearly tripled the risk of multiple-trigger wheezing up to age 4.5.
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Food
Alzheimer’s Disease Risk Lower in Those Eating Baked, Broiled Fish
Among 260 cognitively healthy volunteers, those eating baked or broiled fish at least weekly showed better-preserved gray matter on MRI in brain areas at risk for Alzheimer's ten years later, and their five-year risk of decline to mild cognitive impairment or Alzheimer's fell to one-fifth of normal.
Food
Fish and shellfish lower risk of type 2 diabetes in women
Among 51,963 men and 64,193 women in Shanghai, eating fish, shellfish and long-chain omega-3 fats went with up to 20 percent lower type 2 diabetes risk in women. In men, only shellfish showed a significant link, at up to 34 percent lower risk.
Diabetes
Eating fish helps prevent type 2 diabetes mellitus in men
Following 22,921 men and 29,759 women in Japan for five years, researchers found men eating the most total fish and seafood were 27% less likely to develop type 2 diabetes, rising to 32% for small and medium fish such as sardine and mackerel. No link appeared in women.
Advisories
Fish Hazards and Controls: More Than a Fish Story
The FDA's Fish and Fishery Products Hazards and Controls Guidance, in its fourth edition since April 2011, tells fishermen and processors how to control parasites, pathogens and natural toxins, among them scombrotoxin, whose histamine builds up when fish are not chilled quickly.
Heart & Blood
Eating lean fish linked to lower risk of stroke
Among 34,670 Swedish women followed 10.4 years, those eating more than three servings of fish a week had 16 percent fewer strokes than those eating less than one. Only lean fish carried the link, at 33 percent lower risk. The study is observational and shows no cause.
Vitamins
Vitamin C, Omega 3 fatty acids cut death risk from cardiovascular disease
Following 58,730 Japanese adults for 16.5 years, researchers found women with the highest vitamin C intake were 30% less likely to die of stroke and 37% less likely to die of coronary heart disease. The association was not significant in men, and vitamins A and E showed none.
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Was Your Catfish Slaughtered Like This?
Mercy For Animals says undercover video from Catfish Corner near Mesquite, Texas shows workers skinning and dismembering catfish that are still conscious and struggling, with no attempt to stun them. The group documented 66 incidents for the Dallas County District Attorney's office.
Food
Eating fried fish may boost stroke risk
A Neurology study of 21,675 adults found African-Americans and residents of the Southern stroke belt ate more fried fish than others, adding to evidence that fried fish may raise stroke risk. Frying can turn fish fatty acids into artificial trans fat.
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Tuna and mercury: New tests by Consumer Reports
Consumer Reports found measurable mercury in every sample of canned and pouched tuna it tested, from 0.018 to 0.774 parts per million, with white albacore usually far higher than light tuna. The EPA says one weekly serving of white tuna could give women and children an unsafe dose.
Food
Eating fish may not help Alzheimer's disease or dementia - study
Following 5,395 older adults in Rotterdam for 10 years, with 465 dementia cases, researchers found no association between eating fish or fatty fish, or omega-3 intake, and the risk of dementia or Alzheimer's disease.
Cooking
Healthy Recipes: Mouth-watering oven-fried fish
A heart-healthy oven-fried fish recipe: fillets soaked briefly in seasoned milk, coated in cornflake crumbs and baked at 475 degrees. Six servings at 183 calories and 2 grams of fat each.
Cancer
Eating fish lowers risk of dying from prostate cancer
Reviewing 17 case-control and 14 cohort studies, Konrad Szymanski's team found no link between eating fish and getting prostate cancer, but heavy fish eaters were 44 percent less likely to develop metastatic disease and up to 63 percent less likely to die of it.
Supplements
Omega-3 fatty acids don't cut risk of heart disease?
In 4,837 heart attack survivors aged 60 to 80, low doses of EPA and DHA or of ALA did not cut major cardiovascular events, researchers reported at the 2010 European Society of Cardiology Congress. Many variables were in play, so the trial does not settle the question.
Supplements
Fish oil may reduce risk of breast cancer
Among 35,016 postmenopausal women followed six years, those who regularly used fish oil supplements were 32 percent less likely to develop breast cancer, particularly invasive ductal disease. The authors caution this is an association; a healthier lifestyle among users could explain it.
Comments
Do You Know Where Your Fish Comes From?
More than 80 percent of the seafood Americans eat is imported, much of it from China, Vietnam and the Philippines, and ABC News reported contamination with banned chemicals, carcinogens and antibiotics. Mercola cites 2008 FDA testimony on compliance problems with Chinese food exports.
Chemical
Top brands of tuna found high in mercury
University of Nevada-Las Vegas researchers found 55 percent of more than 300 canned tuna samples from the top three U.S. brands exceeded the EPA's 0.5 ppm mercury standard, and 5 percent topped the FDA's 1.0 ppm limit. One of the three brands was consistently high.
Environment
Fishes Killed; Waterways Poisoned by State Agency
A year after Illinois officials killed every fish in Lincoln Park's South Pond with rotenone, the state dosed six miles of the Chicago Sanitary and Shipping Canal to stop invasive carp. Ninety tons of dead fish were expected; a day after 2,000 gallons went in, one carp had been found.
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