{"id":1161,"date":"2019-08-30T03:14:18","date_gmt":"2019-08-30T03:14:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/?p=1161"},"modified":"2019-09-04T03:17:30","modified_gmt":"2019-09-04T03:17:30","slug":"is-fish-oil-the-new-snake-oil-new-studies-debunk-omega-3-hype","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/?p=1161","title":{"rendered":"Is Fish Oil the New Snake Oil? New Studies Debunk Omega-3 Hype"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>Fish-oil supplements, which have gotten some credit for helping prevent everything from memory loss to heart disease, are coming under extra scrutiny lately.<\/p>\n<p>Two extensive studies are now casting doubt on the supplements\u2019 benefits \u2014 suggesting that now might be a good time for those supposedly potent pills to go the way of your late pet goldfish.<\/p>\n<p>Fish oil is the most commonly taken natural supplement among both adults and children, with 18.8 million US adults popping them regularly, a National Health Interview Survey found.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople need to be a little skeptical,\u201d he says, adding that he would not personally take a fish-oil supplement for any health reason.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s a look at recent findings on omega-3.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Diabetes <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>An August review of studies of omega-3 and omega-6 supplements in the British Medical Journal found that the type of fat found in fish-oil pills had minimal impact on reducing a person\u2019s chances of getting diagnosed with diabetes, or on improving their overall blood-glucose levels. The long-term study looked at 83 trials comprised of more than 121,000 participants. Overall, the trials revealed that those supplements had a little-to-no benefit to diabetes patients compared to a placebo.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Heart disease<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Another large study, published in July\u2019s edition of the Annals of Internal Medicine, investigated several supplements targeted at heart health. It found that evidence for omega-3 supplements such as fish-oil pills had a \u201clow level of certainty\u201d when it came to avoiding myocardial infarction and coronary heart disease. This one looked at nearly 1 million participants in 277 different trials.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Brain health<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Although there have been some findings that eating fish regularly can help people think better, fish-oil supplements do very little to improve your thinking skills in the long run. In general, they are a big waste of money for anyone hoping to stave off dementia, a World Health Organization advisory announced this year.<\/p>\n<p>Read the complete article at\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2019\/08\/30\/is-fish-oil-the-new-snake-oil-new-studies-debunk-the-omega-3-hype\/\">New York Post<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fish-oil supplements, which have gotten some credit for helping prevent everything from memory loss to heart disease, are coming under&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1162,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[10],"class_list":["post-1161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-vitamins-supplements","tag-alternative-medicine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1161"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1163,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1161\/revisions\/1163"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}