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Meta-Analysis Says: Fish Oil Does Not Help You Lean Out! Plus: Why It's Still Worth Having Fatty Fish 1-2x/Week

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SuppVersity readers know: Diet (and exercise) will make you lose weight. Supplements can only accelerate the process. However, it it really possible that fish oil does not even do that? I guess those of you who are still taking it, will already have noticed that there is nothing to the whole hoopla about the "fat burning effects of DHA & EPA". A recent meta-analysis from the University of Sheffield in the United Kingdom does now confirm just that: The hypothesis that daily fish oil supplementation reduces body weight and BMI is not supported by scientific evidence -at least not in the overweight and obese study participants of the 9 studies that met the rigorous criteria of this meta-analysis. The scientists had conducted a search of Web of Science, PubMed, Medline and Google Scholar for studies having the keywords ‘fish’, ‘fish oil’, ‘oily fish’, ‘omega three’, ‘omega-3’, ‘n-3’, ‘body weight’, ‘body composition’, ‘BMI’, ‘weight reduction’ or ‘weight loss’ in th...
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Fish Oil Compromises, Fish Improves Adiponectin Levels in "Overweight, But Healthy" Individuals. Neither Promotes Weight or Fat Loss Within a 4-Week Study Period

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Fish are smart, they tell you about the good things "omega-3" fatty acids will do, without pointing you to the fact that eating them will yield a more favorable DHA:EPA ratio than popping pills that are made from the same remnants of their deceased relatives the fishery industry has dumbed for decades. With the vitamin D news the other day ( go back ), you are now probably thinking "hell, no Adel's other favorite topic to rant about"... an yes! You are right: I just like to rant against mainstream stupidity and one-size-fits-it all approaches everybody loves because they are so "easy"! Take your fish oil! And everything is going to be all right. Much easier and so much more compelling, than my advice to eat fatty fish at least once, better twice or thrice a week to promote , not magically achieve metabolic health. And while you've heard about the anabolic and blood pressure lowering benefits of fish protein in previous articles, here at t...
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Fishing for Muscle: Cod Protein Promotes Muscle Repair After Injury More than Casein or Peanut Protein

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Image 1: There are obviously more nutritionally valuable parts to cod than just its liver. On Wednesday, you have learned that diet-deoptimization with rice instead of casein protein is a possible way to gain less weight. Today, we are going to tackle what appears to be a way more promising alternative to the dairy-based top-dogs among the protein supplements: Cod protein! Within the health and fitness community, the cold(er) water fish is hitherto, above all, known for its vitamin-laden liver and the oil humans have been producing from it and consuming for centuries, now. That the arginine-, glycine- and taurine-rich protein of its tasty white flesh could soon replace - or at least complement - dairy proteins (casein, whey) as the physical culturists' go-to protein for muscle building and regeneration will yet probably be news to most of you, right? COD - Canned or dried? Probably doesn't matter as long as you eat it. In a recently published paper on yet another rod...
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A Fat D-Ficiency! Do You Really Need More Vitamin D or Simply More Fatty Foods? Study Shows, Even 50.000 IU of Vitamin D3 Useless, When You Ingest It Without Fat.

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 Image 1: Fatty fish and organ meats aside, whole eggs and full-fat dairy are your best food choices to raise vitamin D levels - I would even venture the guess that they (combined with fish and organ meats) would make supplementation obsolete, even in the Nothern hemisphere (if you "load up" on sun in the summer). Those of you who have been following my daily blogposts, here at the SuppVersity for more than the last couple of days will be aware that I am one of the few outspoken vitamin D (-supplementation) skeptics . I am by no means doubting the scientific data which clearly indicates that low vitamin D levels (low in medical, not in "Internet blogosphere" terms) are associated with all sorts of diseases. I do not question the hypothesis that, from a biomolecular perspective, vitamin D has more of a hormone than of a "vitamin" (=essential nutrient). And I do not challenge the use of vitamin D(3) supplements by people with low or even borderline lo...
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