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This article at a glance This study addressed the question whether daily intake of fish oil during three months had an effect on treatment-resistant epilepsy in children. More than half of the children had no epileptic attacks during the intervention period. The results support a limited numb...

This article at a glance Two recent studes have explored the possibility of adjusting the fatty acid composition of Ready-to-Use Therapeutic Foods (RUTF) that are used to rehabilitate malnourished children, with the aim of better supporting omega-3 LCPUFA status. DHA levels drop during the reco...

Professor Anne Marie Minihane Department of Nutrition and Preventive Medicine, Norwich Medical School, University of East Anglia (UEA), Norwich, UK Website: https://www.uea.ac.uk/medicine/people/profile/a-minihane   Setting the Scene A large body of human prospective epidemiology, as well as...

Professor Jacques Delarue, MD, PhD Department of Nutritional Sciences & Laboratory of Human Nutrition University Hospital/Faculty of Medicine/University of Brest, France jacques.delarue@univ-brest.fr   Type 2 diabetes (T2D) is a worldwide increasing non-communicable disease c...

Bill Lands, Fellow, American Society for Nutrition, College Park, MD, USA Email: wemlands@att.net; Website: http://efaeducation.org/ Similarities and differences between the omega-3 (n-3) and omega-6 (n-6) essential nutrients have moved in and out of discussions over the past 50 years as the biome...

This article at a glance In this report the authors present the changes in plasma levels of EPA- and DHA-derived lipid mediators in response to an eight-week supplementation with omega-3 LCPUFA in patients with advanced chronic kidney disease. Importantly the study shows that even in an advance...

 This article at a glance This intervention study showed that perioperative supplementation with EPA/DHA to patients scheduled for coronary bypass artery grafting and who had had a recent myocardial infarction led to improved results. Specifically the authors noted development of significantly ...

This article at a glance Environmental enteropathy is increasingly being recognized to contribute to nutrient malabsorption and augmented catabolism in young children living in conditions where fecal to oral contamination occurs constantly. Besides improving sanitary conditions, no effective me...

This article at a glance Two recent studies have addressed the role of omega-3 LCPUFA in varicocele and asthenozoospermia, two relatively common disorders of male fertility. Higher dietary intake of EPA, DHA and total omega-3 LCPUFA was found to be associated with a reduced probability to suff...

This article at a glance This is the first controlled study to address the potential effectiveness of daily EPA/DHA for common acne in young adults. The study reports — through both objective scores, and subjective assessment — decreased acne severity in young adults. The results are supporte...

Epilepsy is a disorder of the central nervous system (CNS) in which individuals experience epileptic seizures, displays of transient deregulated neural activity in one or both hemispheres. Epileptic activity displays as changes in sensory awareness and involuntary motor activation of specific b...

William S. Harris, PhD Senior Research Scientist, Health Diagnostic Laboratory, Inc. (Richmond, VA) Professor, Department of Internal Medicine, Sanford School of Medicine, University of South Dakota President, OmegaQuant Analytics, LLC (Sioux Falls, SD)   On July 11, 2013 a paper was publi...