Fried fish, consumed regularly, poses health risks
Fried fish, consumed regularly, poses health risks
Can fish consumption cause a stroke? I suppose if you were eating a fish and it started talking you might jump out of your chair, bump your head and pass out. But that’s not a stroke.
When I read that a study had found that high fish intake might increase stroke risk I knew that either the study was bad or the fish was fried.
Even the lead researcher – Maria Wennberg of Umea University in Sweden – knew that something was amiss. After her study of the dietary habits and medical histories of more than 1,000 subjects found that men who eat fish more than twice each week were MORE likely to have a stroke, she told The Local (a Swedish news outlet) that men should not stop eating fish.
Now…if the study were sound, wouldn’t she be offering the opposite advice?
Ms. Wennberg’s team didn’t take a number of critical variables into consideration, such as subjects’ exercise frequency, vegetable intake, alcohol intake, and the way the fish was cooked.
As I’ve pointed out in previous e-Alerts, regular consumption of fried fish is very unhealthy. According to a 2003 University of Washington study, subjects who ate fried fish several times each week had a higher risk of heart attack and death due to heart disease. In the same study, subjects who ate baked or broiled fish three or more times each week had a significantly reduced risk of heart disease.
Source:
“Fish-Eating Men Face Increased Stroke Risk” The Local, 6/12/07, thelocal.se
