The Omega PrincipleWashington Post, DC - Aug 19Omega-3 fatty acids are already prized by cardiologists for protecting the heart... Now psychiatrists are also taking a closer look. Omega-3s, dubbed the "happy" fats in some quarters, are under investigation for treating depression, bipolar disease, attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, alcoholism, Alzheimer's disease and even the so-called baby blues, or postpartum depression. Earlier this year, the American Psychiatric Association formed a committee to review the findings to make treatment recommendations for the use of omega 3s...
...charted fish consumption worldwide and compared those figures to rates of depression. In a paper published in 1998 in The Lancet, he showed that nations with the highest fish consumption -- Japan, Taiwan and Korea -- also had the lowest rates of depression. Nations with the lowest fish consumption -- New Zealand, Canada, West Germany, France and the United States -- had the highest rates of depression. "It becomes an interesting picture across countries," Hibbeln says. Next, he took a look at homicide, suicide and aggression rates and compared them to seafood consumption...
