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602 Fish Oil for Health

Fish oil has become extremely popular. There’s even a prescription version available. Is it as helpful as its proponents claim, or is it just a fad? Guests: Joseph Maroon, MD, Vice Chairman and Professor in the Department of Neurological Surgery at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. He is also the team neurosurgeon for the Pittsburgh Steeler football team. He is co-author, with Jeffrey Bost, of Fish Oil: The Natural Anti-Inflammatory. Jennifer Dianto, Seafood Watch Program Manager at the Monterey Bay Aquarium.

The Website is: http://www.seafoodwatch.org/seafood-recommendations/consumer-guides

Richard Deckelbaum, MD, the Robert R. Williams Professor of Nutrition and Director of the Institute of Human Nutrition at Columbia University. Dr. Deckelbaum wrote an editorial on fish oil in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition: http://www.ajcn.org/cgi/content/full/84/1/1 Kathleen Wyne, MD, F.A.C.E., an endocrinologist at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, TX. She consults for Reliant Pharmaceuticals, the company that makes the prescription product Omacor.

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About the Author
Terry Graedon, PhD, is a medical anthropologist and co-host of The People’s Pharmacy radio show, co-author of The People’s Pharmacy syndicated newspaper columns and numerous books, and co-founder of The People’s Pharmacy website. Terry taught in the Duke University School of Nursing and was an adjunct assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology. She is a Fellow of the Society of Applied Anthropology. Terry is one of the country's leading authorities on the science behind folk remedies..
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