Comments on: Fish Oils Contradictions http://www.hyam.net/blog/archives/806 "truly pathetic verbiage" Sat, 03 Dec 2011 02:12:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: Hilmar http://www.hyam.net/blog/archives/806/comment-page-1#comment-4056 Hilmar Fri, 29 Jan 2010 18:00:12 +0000 http://www.hyam.net/blog/?p=806#comment-4056 Eating fish does make me happy, actually. Though I guess it depends with whom I share the meal. Eating fish does make me happy, actually. Though I guess it depends with whom I share the meal.

]]> By: Roger Hyam http://www.hyam.net/blog/archives/806/comment-page-1#comment-4034 Roger Hyam Thu, 28 Jan 2010 10:17:18 +0000 http://www.hyam.net/blog/?p=806#comment-4034 Thanks for your interest. There are indeed many papers in PubMed on this but none that show there is any advantage to healthy people's mental health to consume Omega-3 and, I would contend, no evidence to show that even un-healthy people benefit. Most studies that look like they were well carried out end with statements like this "However, existing studies on omega-3 fatty acids in depression have limitations such as small sample sizes and a wide variance in study design, and results regarding efficacy are mixed." (http://tinyurl.com/ykv7guo) or "In the studies that demonstrated statistical significance, improvement in depression rating scale scores for omega-3 fatty acids was comparable to placebo." (http://tinyurl.com/yewxdkh). Omega-3/6/9 supplementation studies should be easy to carry out - you just give people pills or placebo or nothing. Don't know about Japanese Americans. That would be way to complex a study. Suicide is one of the things that isn't effected by income inequality. It is in the Spirit Level book but not on their website. Generally people in stressed situations (e.g. war zones of violent suburbs) don't kill themselves - these things are more complex. Looking at the wikipedia suicide rate page natural oily fish eating nations such as Finland have higher suicide rates than places like New Zealand which would directly contradict the original NHS web page. My point is that these simple links between one dietary component and mental health are probably nuts! Thanks for your interest. There are indeed many papers in PubMed on this but none that show there is any advantage to healthy people’s mental health to consume Omega-3 and, I would contend, no evidence to show that even un-healthy people benefit. Most studies that look like they were well carried out end with statements like this “However, existing studies on omega-3 fatty acids in depression have limitations such as small sample sizes and a wide variance in study design, and results regarding efficacy are mixed.” (http://tinyurl.com/ykv7guo) or “In the studies that demonstrated statistical significance, improvement in depression rating scale scores for omega-3 fatty acids was comparable to placebo.” (http://tinyurl.com/yewxdkh).

Omega-3/6/9 supplementation studies should be easy to carry out – you just give people pills or placebo or nothing.

Don’t know about Japanese Americans. That would be way to complex a study.

Suicide is one of the things that isn’t effected by income inequality. It is in the Spirit Level book but not on their website. Generally people in stressed situations (e.g. war zones of violent suburbs) don’t kill themselves – these things are more complex.

Looking at the wikipedia suicide rate page natural oily fish eating nations such as Finland have higher suicide rates than places like New Zealand which would directly contradict the original NHS web page.

My point is that these simple links between one dietary component and mental health are probably nuts!

]]> By: p http://www.hyam.net/blog/archives/806/comment-page-1#comment-4031 p Thu, 28 Jan 2010 05:51:42 +0000 http://www.hyam.net/blog/?p=806#comment-4031 There is a lot of literature on Omega-3 and mental health. Check PubMed. What is the income inequality within the population of Japanese Americans? See also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_suicide_rate There is a lot of literature on Omega-3 and mental health. Check PubMed.

What is the income inequality within the population of Japanese Americans?

See also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_suicide_rate

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