
12/20/2022
The Evidence. The hoopla over omega-3s started in the early 1980s with a report that Greenland Inuit, whose diet is high in animal fat but who also eat a lot of cold-water fish, had surprisingly low rates of heart disease. Since then, studies have suggested that on the whole, eating oily fish may do your body more good than any possible harm from mercury and other contaminants.