Fish Oils and Cognitive Function


            It bothers to me to great extent when older Americans are roped into buying things and using things that they don’t need and can’t afford. In this case I’m talking about fish oils. Every person over the age of 50 I know is taking them. Sometimes it’s because their doctor tells them to, sometimes a friend, and sometimes just some quack who surfs the trend wave in nutrition.

            “Fish is Brain Food” looks at both the “sunrise and sunset years” of life and talks to some degree about if fish oils really do make a difference. The studies are becoming more common and the subject better understood. There is some controversy but for the most part they are linking fish oils to increased cognitive ability for longs, but scientists still can not say if Omega-3’s or something else in fish are causing the improvement, or if whatever the fish is replacing was causing the damage.

 

Harris, W.S. (2014). Fish oils and cognitive function. Today’s Dietitian, 16(9). 21.

-ES

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