Is seafood a heart saver?"A little fish may still do some good,
but more fish is not necessarily better," wrote Martijn Katan, a
researcher at the Wageningen Agricultural University in the
Netherlands, in the New England Journal of Medicine The New
England Journal of Medicine (New Engl J Med or NEJM) is an
English-language peer-reviewed medical journal published by the
Massachusetts Medical Society. It is one of the most popular and
widely-read peer-reviewed general medical journals in the world.
in 1995.(1) That's how most scientists currently see the
evidence that fish can reduce the risk of heart disease. Their
hopes are not nearly as high as they were in the early 1980s,
when researchers discovered that Eskimos in Greeniand rarely
suffered heart attacks.(2) "In studies of Eskimos - who,
incidentally, ate seal and whale rather than fish - low rates of
coronary disease were found," explained Katan. "But their diet
and lifestyle were quite special and most of them died before
reaching middle age." Since then