Study Reveals How Fish Oils Help the Heart
(HealthDay News, 7/24/06)

Dr. Dariush Mozaffarian of Brigham and Women's Hospital, in Boston, and team, reviewed data from over 5,000 older adult participants in the Cardiovascular Heart Study. The researchers matched the subjects’ responses to questions about fish consumption with electrocardiogram test results and found a link between eating fish and healthy cardiac electrical activity; including lower heart rate, a greater interval after the heart received a signal to pump and when it actually pumped and a shorter electrical re-set time after each beat. The investigators report that just a couple of servings a week of baled or broiled fish that are high in omega-3 fatty acids is beneficial, but consuming even more is linked with even better results.

(Journal of the American College of Cardiology, August 2006)