Science Round-Up Seconds: DHA + EPA + DPA & Prostate Cancer - Auxiliary Data on the Effect of Fish & Fish Oil on Prostate-, Breast- and Colorectal Cancer
Did the media hype surrounding the "Fish Oil Promotes Prostate Cancer" break this poor critter's neck? I guess you will all have listened to the Science Round-Up live, right? No? Well then I'd suggest you do that now , because I am not going to waste any more time on the breakfast or sweetener study, but felt inclined to take another look at the fish / fish oil and prostate cancer issue. Why? Well, I have written tons about breakfast ( read it ), the circadian rhythm ( read it ) and by good way too much about sweeteners ( look here ) in the past to reiterate that in the absence of any new scientific evidence whatsoever. "Fish oil promotes prostate cancer! What shall we do?" While I am not sure that someone actually wrote that, it is only natural for the layman to assume that taking fish oil capsules and even eating fish would be detrimental to his prostate health, once he is confronted with scientific evidence not just from one study, but actuall...
