Australian Study Finds Fish Oil Helps Weight Loss
(Sydney, Reuters Health, 7/28/06)

Alison Hill of the University of South Australia, and colleagues, divided 68 overweight and obese people, into four groups.. They assigned small daily doses of fish oil to one group and sunflower oil to another. They had both exercise moderately with a 45-minute walk or run three times a week. They assigned fish oil or sunflower oil to the other two groups, but without the exercise. The investigators found that the group taking fish oil doses and exercising lost an average of 4.5 pounds over the three months of the study; whereas the other three groups lost no weight. The scientists speculate that the omega 3 fatty acids in fish oil may help burn off excess weight by improving blood flow to the muscles during exercise.