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Eating fish may explain very low levels of heart disease in Japan

biomedical | cardiovascular disease | diet | fish | fish oil | health | heart | heart disease | omega-3 fats | omega-3 fatty acids

Consuming large quantities of fish loaded with omega-3 fatty acids may explain low levels of heart disease in Japan, according to a study led by the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health. The study also found that third- and fourth-generation Japanese Americans had similar or even higher levels of atherosclerosis, or hardening of [...]