Letters to the Editor
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another study protocol...
sounds like another study is needed..
I'd bet money that *if* the correlation between fish-eating and higher-IQs for babies is real (all other variables controlled), the likely substance responsible is the essential fatty acid in fish. You could get the same effect by taking 3-6 fish-oil capsules a day, 1-2 caps three times a day, with meals, usually, and fish oil that has been distilled to eliminate heavy metals is easy enough to find at any good vitamin shop, or on-line.
A lot of research has been done into the effects of essential fatty acids, specifically, into their beneficial effects on our bodies..before the processed-food industry created hydrogenated and partially-hydrogenated fats, EFAs were the only kinds of fats we ate, for the most part.
Hydrogenated-or trans--fats are highly toxic, and there is a school of thought that suggests many of the chronic illnesses we suffer from, that have become more common in the last 75 years, are partly the result of living longer, but also the result of consuming too many of these man-made fats. Not the natural saturated fats...the ones invented by the processed food industry that allow foods to sit on shelves longer...and things like margerine..something no sane human should eat.
Too much saturated fat is a bad idea...but ANY transfat is a bad idea.