Big Pharma — Mercury

Mercury can attenuate the beneficial health effects of fish Higher serum long-chain omega-3 fatty acid concentration, a marker for fish consumption, was beneficially associated with cardiac performance in middle-aged and older men from eastern Finland. However, methylmercury exposure, mainly through certain fish species, attenuated these associations, according to a new PhD thesis from the University of Eastern Finland Coronary heart disease is a major cause of mortality globally. Also in Finland, despite a sharp decline in the recent decades, coronary heart disease is still one of the main causes of death. It has been suggested that a substantial proportion of...