A rat study in the British Journal of Nutrition found the omega-3 fat DHA raised bone mineral content, while EPA did not. Mercola notes NASA researchers separately reported that EPA may protect against bone loss during spaceflight, a result that challenges the rat data.
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Omega 6 Fat Raises Prostate Cancer Risk; Omega-3 Fats Cut It
A Nigerian study in Ethnicity & Disease found men in the third quartile of total omega-6 fatty acids had 133 percent higher prostate cancer risk than those in the lowest, while men with EPA and DPA in the second quartile were 61 and 21 percent less likely to have the cancer.
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Omega-3s strike blow to heart failure
Researchers followed about 40,000 Swedish men aged 45 to 79 between 1998 and 2004 and found those eating the most omega-3s were up to 33 percent less likely to develop heart failure; one serving of fatty fish a week was linked to a 12 percent lower likelihood.
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