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Articles to Check/Add References to?
I added two articles to "check/add references to", which are "Sports nutrition" and "Health effects of chocolate". Is that enough for this week's assignment? I'm a little confused, as I never saw the check/add references tab on the course Wikipedia website

Article Work
I am now going to help contribute to the "Fish Oil" article. Below is a list of potential references that I may use to help edit the article.

Omega 3 fatty acids are beneficial towards various measures of cardiac health, dietary fish intake has the highest correlation (article has more specifics!)

Review has found conflicting evidence for omega-3 fatty acid and DHA consumption and possible protection against cognitive decline (but hard to test and conflicting)

What bout plant-based fatty acids: Plants provide ALA (alpha-linoleic acid) and SDA (stearidonic acid), two essential fatty acids that potentially metabolize into EPA and DHA (although the percent of ALA and even less with SDA that turn into these products is very low, and almost zero for DHA). This study looked at the benefits of those materials (as plants are a much more sustainable food source than seafood) but it was hard to see their benefit, as any benefit that they may have provided is due to metabolizing to the omega-3 fatty acids. The researchers did found that SDA has a higher metabolism potential though, and could be the subject of further research. In addition, there has to be more research with certain demographic groups, and conversion in general to learn more. Thus, seafood is still the best option for that reason (direct access to EPA and DHA).

Supplementation and fatty acids: a study has shown that how you take your EHAs and DHAs doesn't necessarily matter in terms of levels in the blood, and didn't make a difference in terms of the sex of the subject (in terms of lipid structure, which means for example different types of pills)

health risk with consuming fish and fish oil in terms of brominated flame-retardents (BFRs) — comes from many other sources as well but fish and fish oil is a significant part: infants and toddlers consuming these every day may be at risk for exceeding daily recommended intake, because also in breast milk, house dust, etc. BFRs in humans could affect brain function in children, brain and physical development in infants, but not very strong evidence

