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Fish-Eaters Suffer Fewer Strokes

A new study suggests that Swedish fish lovers are less likely to suffer strokes. Investigators followed more than 34,000 women over 10 years. When the study started in 1997, none of the Swedish women had cancer or cardiovascular disease. During the decade that followed, 1,680 of the women suffered a stroke. The women who reported eating fish at least three times a week were 16 percent less likely to be among those who had strokes than those who ate fish less than weekly. In this study, lean fish offered more benefit than fatty fish, perhaps because fatty fish such as salmon and herring are usually eaten salted in Sweden. Salt tends to raise blood pressure, which could counteract the benefit.

[American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, Jan. 2011]

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Terry Graedon, PhD, is a medical anthropologist and co-host of The People’s Pharmacy radio show, co-author of The People’s Pharmacy syndicated newspaper columns and numerous books, and co-founder of The People’s Pharmacy website. Terry taught in the Duke University School of Nursing and was an adjunct assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology. She is a Fellow of the Society of Applied Anthropology. Terry is one of the country's leading authorities on the science behind folk remedies..
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