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<p style="font-size: 18pt; font-weight:bold; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif';"><a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/comment/qa-do-fish-oil-supplements-prevent-heart-attacks/">Q&A: Do fish oil supplements prevent heart attacks</a></p> <p style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight:normal; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif';">Posted August 16, 2007 at 01:15 PM by Hariz Siddiqui</p> <p style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight:normal; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif'">Nobody really knows. However, both eating fish and taking fish oil pills can lower triglycerides and prevent clotting, which may help prevent heart attacks.&nbsp; Heart attacks occur when a plaque breaks off from the wall of arteries leading to the heart and travels down the ever-narrowing artery until it stops and forms a clot that blocks blood flow to the heart A recent report shows that nine grams of fish oil supplements per day may not be completely safe because they can cause a substantial rise in the bad LDL cholesterol (from 106 to 186) that increases heart attack risk (The Annals of Pharmacotherapy, July 2007).&nbsp; Fish oil supplements lower triglycerides by reducing liver cells’ ability to manufacture triglycerides. At the same time, they can block the LDL receptors on liver cells…<a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/comment/qa-do-fish-oil-supplements-prevent-heart-attacks/">(<a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/comment/qa-do-fish-oil-supplements-prevent-heart-attacks/">Continued...</a>)<br clear="all" /><br> <p style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight:normal; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif'"><a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/comment/qa-do-fish-oil-supplements-prevent-heart-attacks/">Read the full article...</a> | <a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/comment/qa-do-fish-oil-supplements-prevent-heart-attacks/">Comment on this post</a></p> <p style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight:normal; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif'">Filed under: <a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/archive/category/her-health/">her-health</a>, <a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/archive/category/her-nutrition/">her-nutrition</a>, <a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/archive/category/supplements/">supplements</a>, <a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/archive/category/her-news/">her-news</a><br /><br /> </P>