Dr. Barry Dworkin

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  • Can omega-6 fatty acids in nuts, vegetable oils lower heart disease and diabetes risk? Sure if you also regularly exercise, eat wholesome foods, sleep well, minimize alcohol consumption, don’t smoke, and maintain a normal blood pressure.

    June 3, 2025

    Medical Mythbusting Commentary for June 3, 2025 Source:Can omega-6 fatty acids in nuts, vegetable oils lower heart disease and diabetes risk?

  • Certain foods may disrupt your body’s fight against cancer cells, study says, There are likely other concomitant factors at play.

    December 13, 2024

    Medical Mythbusting Commentary for December 12 2024 Source:Certain foods may disrupt your body’s fight against cancer cells, study says Reference:Integration of lipidomics with targeted, single cell, and spatial transcriptomics defines an unresolved pro-inflammatory state in colon cancer

  • Interesting but not practical to live your life and full of methodological flaws in study looking at omega fatty acids ratio imbalances and association with early death risk.

    May 16, 2024

    Medical Mythbusting Commentary for May 16, 2024 Source:An imbalance of two healthy fats affects your early death risk, study finds Reference:Higher ratio of plasma omega-6/omega-3 fatty acids is associated with greater risk of all-cause, cancer, and cardiovascular mortality: A population-based cohort study in UK Biobank

  • Please provide the mechanism to explain why certain vegetable oils that reduce LDL (bad) cholesterol increase the risk of heart disease

    November 12, 2013

    Madely Health Headlines Commentary for November 12 , 2013 [display_podcast] Source: Certain cooking oils should not be labelled heart healthy, scientists argue  

  • The skinny on omega-3 fatty acids

    September 28, 2005

    Originally published in The Ottawa Citizen September 28, 2005 Our diet has radically changed over the past century, and with it the balance between two essential omega fatty acids, omega-3 (linolenic acid) and omega-6 (linoleic acid). An essential nutrient is one that the body cannot make for itself or cannot manufacture enough of on its…

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