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Does eating salmon fish increase the prostrate cancer due to its fatty acid?
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No: This was the result of just one more bad study. People have been taking fish oils for their supposed benefit against atherosclerosis. This was a major disappointment, but the supposed link with prostate cancer looks like an artifact to me. Epidemiology generates huge amounts of correlations but with no scientific basis, I'd simply ignore it.
Answered 1/24/2015
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