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Title: Link Between Omega-3 Fatty Acids and Increased Prostate Cancer Risk Confirmed
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Published: Jul 11, 2013
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Post Date: 2013-07-11 04:35:29 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceDaily: July 10, 2013 — A second large, prospective study by scientists at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center has confirmed the link between high blood concentrations of omega-3 fatty acids and an increased risk of prostate cancer. Share This: ? Published July 11 in the online edition of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, the latest findings indicate that high concentrations of EPA, DPA and DHA -- the three anti-inflammatory and metabolically related fatty acids derived from fatty fish and fish-oil supplements -- are associated with a 71 percent increased risk of high-grade prostate cancer. The study also found a 44 percent increase in the risk of low-grade prostate cancer and an overall 43 percent increase in risk for all prostate cancers. The increase in risk for high-grade prostate cancer is important because those tumors are more likely to be fatal. The findings confirm a 2011 study published by the same Fred Hutch scientific team that reported a similar link between high blood concentrations of DHA and a more than doubling of the risk for developing high-grade prostate cancer. The latest study also confirms results from a large European study. "The consistency of these findings suggests that these fatty acids are involved in prostate tumorigenesis and recommendations to increase long-chain omega-3 fatty acid intake, in particular through supplementation, should consider its potential risks," the authors wrote. "We've shown once again that use of nutritional supplements may be harmful," said Alan Kristal, Dr.P.H., the paper's senior author and member of the Fred Hutch Public Health Sciences Division. Kristal also noted a recent analysis published in the Journal of the American Medical Association that questioned the benefit of omega-3 supplementation for cardiovascular diseases. The analysis, which combined the data from 20 studies, found no reduction in all-cause mortality, heart attacks or strokes. "What's important is that we have been able to replicate our findings from 2011 and we have confirmed that marine omega-3 fatty acids play a role in prostate cancer occurrence," said corresponding author Theodore Brasky, Ph.D., a research assistant professor at The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center who was a postdoctoral trainee at Fred Hutch when the research was conducted. "It's important to note, however, that these results do not address the question of whether omega-3's play a detrimental role in prostate cancer prognosis," he said. Kristal said the findings in both Fred Hutch studies were surprising because omega-3 fatty acids are believed to have a host of positive health effects based on their anti-inflammatory properties. Inflammation plays a role in the development and growth of many cancers. It is unclear from this study why high levels of omega-3 fatty acids would increase prostate cancer risk, according to the authors, however the replication of this finding in two large studies indicates the need for further research into possible mechanisms. One potentially harmful effect of omega-3 fatty acids is their conversion into compounds that can cause damage to cells and DNA, and their role in immunosuppression. Whether these effects impact cancer risk is not known. The difference in blood concentrations of omega-3 fatty acids between the lowest and highest risk groups was about 2.5 percentage points (3.2 percent vs. 5.7 percent), which is somewhat larger than the effect of eating salmon twice a week, Kristal said. The current study analyzed data and specimens collected from men who participated in the Selenium and Vitamin E Cancer Prevention Trial (SELECT), a large randomized, placebo-controlled trial to test whether selenium and vitamin E, either alone or combined, reduced prostate cancer risk. That study showed no benefit from selenium intake and an increase in prostate cancers in men who took vitamin E. The group included in the this analysis consisted of 834 men who had been diagnosed with incident, primary prostate cancers (156 were high-grade cancer) along with a comparison group of 1,393 men selected randomly from the 35,500 participants in SELECT. The National Cancer Institute and the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine funded the research. Also participating in the study were additional Fred Hutch scientists and researchers from the University of Texas, University of California, University of Washington, National Cancer Institute and the Cleveland Clinic.
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#1. To: Tatarewicz (#0)
O.K. So this wasn't a study in which omega-3 intake was the variable? "Mr. Prime Minister, there is only one important question facing us, and that is the question whether the white race will survive." -- Leonid Brezhnev to James Callahan
I don't know if you could call it a study. Let's just call it the Inuit Paradox Part Deux. Damn Eskimos. They keep blowing everybody's pet theories out of the water. Godfrey Smith: Mike, I wouldn't worry. Prosperity is just around the corner. This would seem to be insignificant. Omega-3 fatty acids are indeed healthful. ;) "When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one." Edmund Burke
Stop right there! You are posting (without a link) public relations/propaganda from one of the prestigious gate keeper institutions, which primarily ensure that cancer continues to be a top population culling mechanism, without critical analysis or comment? Really? This announcement can be parsed by a child: There is a clear, undeniable agenda to cull the tax farm animals, now that the u.s. middle class has done its work in designing all the necessary mass control technologies to manage all the tax animals, world-wide. Clearly, information which the tax animal/consumer may use WITHOUT MEDICAL CABAL OVERSIGHT to prolong health and mental acuity has the potential to significantly retard the culling schedule and may allow a few wild-card, radical elements into the mass mind! Low cost solution? Have one of your institutions, acting as one of the cult's shamans, issue a decree, slavishly echoed by the MEdiaMatrix, linking this naturally occurring, health promoting substance to the dreaded bogeyman of our day: CANCER! Not just ANY cancer either, but the cancer which only occurs in men and is the one most intimately related to our sexual function! No doubt, some microcephalic toady trying to please their master received a treat for this clever marketing ploy! Reposting streams of articles from MSM god-of-technology sources without any attempt to gloss or deconstruct the spin? Is there some idea that the radical perception and the apprehension of truth about our cult of MEdiaMatrix, which circulates through 4um, is either characteristically unaware of the "progress" of corporate technology OR worse, the very motivation to seek truth by lifting the skirt of the whore of Babylon is somehow a misguided response to a technology or science deficit? Huh!? LOL! I can see it now: See? Is is easy making things up... This is why the psychopaths-in-power can hire the damaged to do their part in maintaining the culture-wide delusion. (NOTE to NSA: just pass this on to one of your psychiatrist buddies so that he can coin another fake disease and profit from fake medicines to treat it!) It is a cliche well-reinforced by MEdiaMatrix training: Comparable to: "We're from the government and we're here to help" There appear to be an endless supply of slaves willing to betray their fellow human for some short term advantage. Within the electronic jungle in which we are ensnared, now faceless bureaucrats sitting in an air-conditioned cubicle can play the hero in their own minds and follow the dictates of their leader, screwing thousands of people with just one click of their bureaucratic institutions' software interface, not just one-sie, two-sie blindsiding like some "old school" civil servant! Does this pattern of uncritical reposts represent the mindset of yet another left-brain dominant thinker who uncritically believes that the institutions claiming to do pure science actually pursue scientific knowledge? All corporate/academic labs (but I repeat myself) practice mere applied technology, careful not to step out of the box carefully crafted in collusion with other profit-driven institutions. The box stands for the scientific "consensus", fabricated by the rich, the powerful, the media-connected, beginning in earnest during the fertile 19th century and going into high gear to suppress Tesla's and his contemporaries' discoveries. ALL cancer-related charities, institutions and corporations are trolls acting as gate keepers blocking access to any cure or even fundamental understanding of the disease! This "news" was trivially easy to see through; I hope that it indicates the end of the frayed rope... Now go back to your regularly scheduled, BigBrother/BigSister-approved programming. Let the beat-downs continue until morale improves or until the awakened remnant of the people rise and shine on all attempted cruelty.... Thank you. I questioned the Holoco$t, once, and ended up with a terrific headache, but that was just Abe Foxman rapping my skull with a small hammer.
The group included in the this analysis consisted of 834 men who had been diagnosed with incident, primary prostate cancers (156 were high-grade cancer) along with a comparison group of 1,393 men selected randomly from the 35,500 participants in SELECT.
#2. To: Prefrontal Vortex (#1)
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Mike Flaherty: Yeah, it's been there a long time. I wish I knew which corner.
My Man Godfrey (1936)
#3. To: Tatarewicz (#0)
Link Between Omega-3 Fatty Acids and Increased Prostate Cancer Risk Confirmed
#4. To: Tatarewicz, Original_Intent, Ada, HOUNDDAWG, christine, Lod, abraxas, randge, farmfriend, Lysander_Spooner, wudidiz, TommyTheMadArtist, Horse, Artisan, X-15, James Deffenbach, titorite, ALL (#0)
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A second large, prospective study by scientists at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center has confirmed the link between high blood concentrations of omega-3 fatty acids and an increased risk of prostate cancer.
Information about the efficacy of the omega-3 fatty acids in maintaining human health AND a working mind has reached the masses.
Oh the horror! (pronounced "haw roh"- Brando as Colonel Kurtz)
Technology Progression Disorder or TPD for short
OR
Progressive Technology Disorder or PTD for short
OR
Technology Distraction Deficit Disorder or TDDD
OR
Happy Talk Deficit Disorder or HTDD
Some half-bright busybody takes the State's message at face value and runs with it, ego expanded, filled with a quasi-self-righteous fervor, insisting that the answer to the "obvious" (to the wannabe "leader") problem is the latest State-approved information AND the government-approved logic which reinforces it.
Anger? As a first reaction to get your a$$ moving, once you see through the Media Matrix and set yourself free from your lifelong mind control collar. Sustainable? Not long enough to screen your intention to be free from the control freaks monitoring all comms! Our ultimate weapon is laughter and amused detachment at the folly of the would-be emperors while their plans evaporate! Fear mongers HATE it when the FEAR card doesn’t work. The humiliation of being seen as merely a naked ape is THEIR big fear. Laugh the bastards off the stage! Tell your friends that we can build a real civilization from the ruins of the totalitarian game!
#5. To: HighLairEon (#4)
-Alex Kurtagic
#6. To: HighLairEon (#4)
Nice rant! My bullshit alarm was sounding before I got through the title. This "news" was trivially easy to see through
Godfrey Smith: Mike, I wouldn't worry. Prosperity is just around the corner.
Mike Flaherty: Yeah, it's been there a long time. I wish I knew which corner.
My Man Godfrey (1936)
#7. To: All (#0)
in the mean time back in October of 2012 a doctor tried a "controversial" fish oil therapy on 2 individuals who had suffered massive brain injuries. They both recovered to a somewhat former self. http://www.cnn.com/2012/10/19/health/fish-oil-brain-injuries Yeah, fuck those omega 3... Everything mentioned in the article on how it IS NOT beneficial or DOES NOT provide any health benefits is a load of bull. They conveniently forgot to mention how omega 3 fatty acids found in fish oil is truly essential for brain development and maintenance. Was also reading that fish oil supplements can help greatly reduce if not reverse the damage caused by MS. It regenerates the myelin in the brain and body. With the help of a proper diet, the are reported cases of MS reversal. So lookie lookie! Fish oil supplements can now cause prostate cancer!(so cancer research says and we ALL know they are not out there to find a cure) Each time cancer research foundations call here for donations, we kindly inform them that we own a rife machine. If they were smart and really wanted to save lives, they should start clinical trials involving rife therapy instead of publishing dribbles about fish oil supplements. Think only Australia is the only nation who are gathering empirical data about Cancer and rife therapy. They also allow practitioner to use rife machines. A major improvement than here in the USofA where if a practitioner is found using a rife machine on a patient, license will be revoked. What are they so scared of? Making less ca$h off sick people and actually help them with an actual cure? I digress... This article is SHIT
The 25 Rules of Disinformation
18. Emotionalize, Antagonize, and Goad Opponents. If you can’t do anything else, chide and taunt your opponents and draw them into emotional responses which will tend to make them look foolish and overly motivated, and generally render their material somewhat less coherent. Not only will you avoid discussing the issues in the first instance, but even if their emotional response addresses the issue, you can further avoid the issues by then focusing on how “sensitive they are to criticism”.
#8. To: SilverStorm, Jethro Tull (#7)
good to hear the other side.
#9. To: SilverStorm, christine, 4um (#7)
But, but, but this story MUST be true, they were pimping it on the National TeeVee Nooze yesterday morning.
Godfrey Smith: Mike, I wouldn't worry. Prosperity is just around the corner.
Mike Flaherty: Yeah, it's been there a long time. I wish I knew which corner.
My Man Godfrey (1936)
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