Delicious LiveJournal Links for 1-20-2010

[andrewducker]

• Fish oil slows telomere shortening, meaning that chromosomes age more slowly.
  (tags: aging health omega3)
• Most British men are descended from ancient farmers
  (tags: farming genetics uk)
• What all this Leno/Conan/Late Night Gubbins is about: a primer for friends in the UK
  (tags: tv usa EpicFail)
• Guantanamo suicides turn out to be homicides committed by guards.
  (tags: usa politics guantanamo torture humanrights crime)
• Fox readying U.S. version of Torchwood
  (tags: torchwood tv DrWho)
• German traditional child-rearing - where mothers are ostracised for working full time.
  (tags: children education employment feminism gender parenting women germany)
• An open letter From OK Go about video embedding and the music industry.
  (tags: music business culture marketing youtube copyright videos)
• China bans Avatar for inspiring dissent
  (tags: avatar jamescameron china politics capitalism)

Comments

[drainboy.livejournal.com]

Regarding fish-oil...at no point in the article did I see HOW MUCH it affects ageing. Which might be considered, y'know, pertinent.

[drdoug.livejournal.com]

For "fish-oil" I generally read "snake oil", unless I've found my way in to the primary literature, and even than you need to read carefully. The benefits of consuming fish oil tablets have been ... somewhat ahead of the hard evidence, shall we say.

David Colquhuon - and it may well be The David Colquhoun has a pop in the comments of the article for being rubbishy cut-and-paste of a press release via PA, and another commenter gives this as the possible actual citation:
http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/abstract/303/3/250
Association of Marine Omega-3 Fatty Acid Levels With Telomeric Aging in Patients With Coronary Heart Disease

Ramin Farzaneh-Far, MD; Jue Lin, PhD; Elissa S. Epel, PhD; William S. Harris, PhD; Elizabeth H. Blackburn, PhD; Mary A. Whooley, MD

JAMA. 2010;303(3):250-257.

... from which I note they found a correlation of blood levels of EPA+DPA and slowing of telomere shortening in people with coronary heart disease. It's in actual people, which is cool, but it's correlation, not causation, of course.

[octopoid-horror.livejournal.com]

A post that mentioned chocolate got fifteen times as many comments as one that mentioned government-sanctioned murder. :-)

[simont]

Well? I know which I'd prefer. :-)