Sci Am on Ineffective Fish Oil Supplements 2019

here, some excerpts and musings:

001. at scientificamerican.com, in "The False Promise of Fish Oil Supplements"  R. Preston Mason writes:

"consumers have been told so many times that dietary fish oil supplements promote heart health that it seems to be accepted as factual. But this conventional thinking is not supported by the science. After decades of promises that fish oil 'may work,' the lack of demonstrated benefit leads me to conclude that consumers are wasting their money on supplements in an effort to reduce cardiovascular risk [...]";

sad, really.  How much money is reaped on rancid or ineffective junk.  And the fishy smelling burps!

"a summary of all the evidence was recently published in the prestigious medical publication Annals of Internal Medicine [...regarding] the effectiveness of 24 supplements and diets in preventing cardiovascular disease [...] findings indicated that few nutritional supplements or dietary interventions offered any protection against cardiovascular disease or death and that some may actually cause harm [...] this study is just the latest in a growing body of evidence demonstrating the absence of benefit of fish oil supplements for heart health [...]";

so, some nuts and bolts there.  The study is here. Count on something else to become the new, unjustified fad.

001.b. about the authors:

we're told in the Sci Am article "R. Preston Mason, PhD, MBA, has been a member of the Cardiovascular Division at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School since 2002. He is also president and cofounder of Elucida Research in Beverly, Massachusetts" 

and the AIM study's authors are "Amitabh C. Pandey, MD; Eric J. Topol, MD";