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One issue of the New England Journal of Medicine (312:1205) contains three papers and an editorial that are concerned with the effects of fish-eating and coronary heart disease.

As previously reported, the unsaturated fatty acids in fish benefit mankind by reducing the amount of atherosclerosis (narrowing of the arteries by deposits of cholesterol) and thereby preserving an adequate blood flow through the coronary arteries that supply the muscle of the heart.

One of the papers reports a study involving 852 Dutchmen, whose health and diets were studied for over 20 years. The incidence of death from coronary heart disease was over 50 percent lower among those who consumed at least 30 grams (about one ounce) of fish every day than it was among those who ate none at all. It was found, furthermore, that some benefit is obtained even when fish dishes are eaten only twice a week.

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