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posted by martyb on Wednesday January 31 2018, @11:26PM   Printer-friendly
from the Go-Fish! dept.

Prof. David Ma has discovered that marine-based omega-3s are eight times more effective at inhibiting tumour development and growth.

"This study is the first to compare the cancer-fighting potency of plant- versus marine-derived omega-3s on breast tumour development," said the professor in the Department of Human Health and Nutritional Sciences. "There is evidence that both omega-3s from plants and marine sources are protective against cancer and we wanted to determine which form is more effective."

[...] Published in the Journal of Nutritional Biochemistry, the study involved feeding the different types of omega-3s to mice with a highly aggressive form of human breast cancer called HER-2. HER-2 affects 25per cent of women and has a poor prognosis.

[...] Ma found overall exposure to marine-based omega-3s reduced the size of the tumours by 60 to 70 per cent and the number of tumours by 30 per cent.

However, higher doses of the plant-based fatty acid were required to deliver the same impact as the marine-based omega-3s.

Source: https://news.uoguelph.ca/2018/01/choose-omega-3s-fish-flax-cancer-prevention-study-finds/

Journal Reference: Jiajie Liu, Salma A. Abdelmagid, Christopher J. Pinelli, Jennifer M. Monk, Danyelle M. Liddle, Lyn M. Hillyer, Barbora Hucik, Anjali Silva, Sanjeena Subedi, Geoffrey A. Wood, Lindsay E. Robinson, William J. Muller, David W.L. Ma. Marine fish oil is more potent than plant based n-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids in the prevention of mammary tumours. The Journal of Nutritional Biochemistry, 2017; DOI: 10.1016/j.jnutbio.2017.12.011


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  • (Score: 3, Touché) by beckett on Thursday February 01 2018, @08:47AM (2 children)

    by beckett (1115) on Thursday February 01 2018, @08:47AM (#631379)

    What's poison to one culture is dinner to another.

    Your household diet is likely a 'chore' to someone else who isn't you.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 01 2018, @03:06PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 01 2018, @03:06PM (#631488)

    Yeah, sure, life for sick people is high maintenance and not so much fun for all the things they can't do, and eat. I'm just saying healthy people can eat what they want with little consequence, aside from some heavy farting, which is also healthy. Keep the system loose, and you'll longer than a naked mole rat. Eating should make you feel good, not anxious about every little thing that can kill you.

    If there is a problem with our diet, it has more to do with the way we process food with all those chemicals, fertilizers, pesticides, hormones, etc, and of course the poor sanitation. That's where the poison and resulting cancers, and the setting off all those blood pressure and glucose alarms come from. It's what made all those people sick to begin with.

    • (Score: 2) by beckett on Thursday February 01 2018, @06:11PM

      by beckett (1115) on Thursday February 01 2018, @06:11PM (#631596)

      Yeah, sure, life for sick people is high maintenance and not so much fun for all the things they can't do, and eat.

      it's not just healthy vs. sick; it's that we have a wide biodiversity within our species, and everybody has different things they're allergic to, cannot eat, and do not find palatable. i'm specifically referring to our own individual biology, not just 'healthy vs. sick'.

      As before, what you find palatable and tasty other people may find inedible and unsustainable.