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The report reviewed the findings of 89 studies aimed at assessing the effects of omega 3 consumption from fish or supplements on total mortality, heart problems, strokes and cancer.

The researchers at the University of East Anglia in Norwich, say that people without heart disease will suffer no harm from consuming fish, and quite possibly could do themselves some good.

They also say there is proof that omega 3 consumption may help people who have already had heart attacks or other cardiac problems.

Lead author of the report Lee Hooper, a lecturer in research synthesis and nutrition at the University says the end picture is a mixed one with two major studies showing a benefit, but the most recent large study did not.

Hooper says they found no clear evidence that they are of any use at all and say the findings suggest the fats did nothing to prevent a recurrence of chronic heart conditions.

They actually found that men with angina given high amounts of oily fish were at a greater risk of heart attack.

Hooper says one problem in interpreting the findings is that most of the trials included people who already had cardiac problems such as heart attacks or angina.

She says more, and larger trials are needed to determine the true preventive benefits of omega 3 consumption.

An expert panel in June 2004 of the U.S.

National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute came to much the same conclusion and said additional studies were needed before recommendations could be made to the gen...

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Despite the begging, Rosemary, who lived alone in her Edinburgh home, set off.

That was in 2003.

She was last seen on March 18 that year at the entrance to the Belvedere Hotel on New York's West 48th Street.

Her fate remains a mystery.

The case of Rosemary, who would now be 52, is filed among the thousands of missing person reports the New York Police Department receive each year.

Rosemary had shown signs of the illness about two years before her trip.

Her sister Mary had died in 2001 of pneumonia aged 52, six years after being diagnosed with Pick's.

Their mother, who died in 1975 also suffered from the disease.

When it took hold on Rosemary her behaviour became unpredictable.

She would attend events on the wrong day but blame the organisers, and her sister recalls her arriving a day early to celebrate Hogmanay with relatives.

Matters, it appears, started to go wrong for Rosemary after touching down at Newark International Airport on March 13.

She lost a bag containing her passport and return flight ticket en route to her hotel.

During the trip she went to an apartment block believing it to be her hotel, found a door number and woke up the female occupant.

The police were called.

On another occasion officers saw her strolling through the red light district of Harlem and when approached was unable to remember the hotel name.

They f...

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If the water risk has your head spinning, imagine how the poor fish feel!

Touted as a heart-healthy food source, they have become consumers on the food chain of mercury emissions from industrial pollution, with the larger predator fish - shark, marlin, swordfish, and tuna - containing the highest levels.

The US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued in 2004 an advisory for pregnant women, nursing mothers, and children regarding fish consumption.

Shark, swordfish, king mackerel, and tilefish are off the menu.

Six ounces of solid white albacore tuna is the limit per week, but 12 ounces of chunk light tuna is acceptable, so they say.

But why is chunk light tuna safer?

"In order to keep the market share at a reasonable level, we felt like we had to keep light tuna in the low-mercury group," said FDA official Clark Carrington, without explaining why the FDA was involved with regulating food industry profits.

There are no recommended levels for the non-pregnant, non-nursing adults among us because, as HHS Secretary Mike Leavitt (who, by the way, is the former secretary of the EPA so he knows a lot about both pollution and health) explains: "Mercury is bad and fish is good.

We needed to choose the right words that would give people a sense of knowledge without creating unwarranted fear." Could it be that with the US government budget being eaten alive by the Freedom and Democracy ...