Once again, fish oil shows promise in reducing risk of heart problems

A new Japanese study that appears in The Lancet found that fish oil supplements were just as effective as statin drugs, and offered a similar level of protection in protecting against fatal heart attack. The Japan EPA Lipid Intervention Study (JELIS) exclusively involves Japanese people, whose fish intake is on average far higher than that in the West, and the researchers were testing at far higher levels of supplementation than have ever before been monitored. They found that those who were supplementing with 900 mg of EPA and DHA daily reduced their chances of developing non-fatal heart problems by around 19 per cent compared with those eating two fish servings weekly. The study involved 18,645 participants with high cholesterol levels who were randomly given either a supplement or a statin.

Steve - hmmm...not a study that Big Pharma likes to see.