TIL taking fish supplements daily for the past 15 years might not have been a good idea after all

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TIL taking fish supplements daily for the past 15 years might not have been a good idea after all - Lemmy.ca

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Who’s taking fish oil supplements? People who are concerned for their health or people who are generally healthy? Observational studies like this seem much less useful than a dedicated study with properly allocated controls

Vibes of “Mediterranean diet is so healthy! Chug wine, olive oil, and coffee!”

Turns out the US is so shit we lack in every metric of modern quality of life compared to literally any other developed nation. Diet ain’t fixing that.

Mediterranean diet has been shown to be a particularly healthy diet by many well designed randomized control trials, not just observational studies.