Consumption of oily fish has already been demonstrated to confer a wide range of health benefits– as a brain food, in preventing asthma, in heart health, etc. Here’s another one to add to the list: eating oily fish once a week may reduce your risk of becoming blind in your sunset years due to (wet) age-related macular degeneration.
A team of researchers across seven European countries and co-ordinated by the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine sought to investigate the association between fish intake and omega 3 fatty acids with wet AMD, comparing people with wet AMD with controls. Participants …read more

The McMaster University needs volunteers for its study aiming to determine potential protective effects of omega-3 fatty acids against asthma.
To be eligible to participate, you must be:

male or female
18 to 55 years of age
non-smoker
taking asthma medications and requiring bronchodilator medication for periodic symptom relief and/or to protect against exercise-induced asthma symptoms

Eligible participants will undergo:

comprehensive assessment of asthma and assessment of the effects of your current therapy
blood samples are required for cholesterol testing
provided with dietary supplementation of omega-3 fatty acid capsules for two three-week periods
requires four two-hour visits to the Firestone Institute for Respiratory Health research clinic in Hamilton over …read more

Ooops, it’s already the middle of the week and not a single new entry here at Eating Fabulous. Sorry for that. My two month old daughter has been admitted to the hospital for bronchiolitis. She’s ok now, but what concerns me is this, especially because asthma runs in our family:
Kids who have had bronchiolitis may be more likely to develop asthma later in life, but it’s unclear whether the illness causes or triggers asthma, or whether children who eventually develop asthma were simply more prone to developing bronchiolitis as infants. Studies are being done to clarify the relationship between bronchiolitis …read more

In the Mayo Clinic Proceedings is an article reviewing current the most recent research findings on the cardiovascular benefits associated with omega-3 fatty acids.
Who benefits most from their cardio-protective effects? What is recommended administration– eat fatty fish or take fish oil supplements? How much fish oil do people need to put into their diets? Are there possible adverse effects to fish oil consumption?
These and more are discussed in detail in the article. Here’s the abstract:
The most compelling evidence for the cardiovascular benefit provided by omega-3 fatty acids comes from 3 large controlled trials of 32,000 participants randomized to receive omega-3 …read more