New Study: "Eating Fish helps to Ward off Eye Disease" NYT

[Stuart G]

By RONI CARYN RABIN
Published: March 17, 2011



http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/22/health/research/22diet.html

A new study reports yet another good reason to eat fish: women whose diet was rich in omega-3 fatty acids found in fish were at significantly lower risk of developing age-related macular degeneration.

Harvard Women’s Health Study, which followed 39,876 women in midlife, had participants fill out detailed food-frequency questionnaires at the start of the study in 1993. After an average 10 years of follow-up, 235 of the women had developed macular degeneration, a progressive eye disease that is the leading cause of irreversible vision loss in the elderly .

But the analysis, in Archives of Ophthalmology, found that women who had reported eating one or more servings of fish per week were 42 percent less likely to develop age-related macular degeneration than those who ate less than a serving each month. (Researchers adjusted the data to control for other factors linked to the disease, including smoking.) Eating canned tuna and dark-meat fish like mackerel, salmon, sardines, bluefish and swordfish appeared to have the most benefit.

[msongs]

1. after we have exterminated all the fish what will we do? nt

[Igel]

7. Purslane. n/t

[jtrockville]

2. No can do. I gave up eating Mercury.

I'm sticking with organic flax seed.

[HysteryDiagnosis]

3. 900mg of algae derived DHA... mmmmm good. n/t

[DCKit]

5. Really. Who knew mercury was good for the eyes? nt

[HysteryDiagnosis]

4. Kicked and recommended. n/t

[fatbuckel]

6. I wonder what BPs role is in this?