Monthly Archives: January 2007

Fish Oil Health Benefits: Natural Alternatives To Vioxx

I’m sure you’ve heard the news about pharmaceutical giant Merck issuing a voluntary recall of their anti-inflammatory drug Vioxx. You probably also know that this has occurred as a result of the drug being implicated in some 28,000 heart attacks. The removal of this drug has left a void in the market for those searching [...]

Fish Oil Health Benefits: Fish Oil for Ulcerative Colitis

To get right to the point, fish oil, nature’s most potent anti-inflammatory agent, has been found to relieve the severity of ulcerative colitis (UC), allowing many patients to reduce or even eliminate medications. (American Journal of Gastroenterology, Vol. 87: 432-37) That’s pretty good, don’t you think? Ulcerative colitis is a chronic inflammation of the colon [...]

Fish Oil Health Benefits: Fat, Fish, Fish oil and Cancer

Did you know that eating fish three times a week rather than burgers and burritos can protect you from colon cancer and, if you’re a woman, from breast cancer too? That’s what a team of British researchers discovered after investigating the cancer mortality rates of in 24 European countries, Canada and the U.S. (British Journal [...]