#447: Does Eating Fish Increase Skin Cancer Risk? Study Analysis
Sigma Nutrition Radio
Danny Lennon
4.8 • 626 Ratings
🗓️ 26 July 2022
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
A recent study reported a higher risk of developing melanoma in people who ate a relatively high intake of fish. This study caused headlines and it was picked up by many outlets (including the New York Times, Sky News, etc.).
In this episode, Alan and Danny dig into the nuances of this study to see if the headlines are justified.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to another episode of Sigma Nutrition Radio. |
| 0:17.5 | This is episode 447 of the podcast. my name is Danny Lennon and alongside me of course |
| 0:25.6 | is Alan Flanagan Alan how are you today I'm well yes I'm still in my postdoctoral phase of |
| 0:33.5 | wondering aimlessly around the world knowing what what to do with myself. Yes. |
| 0:37.8 | And in the last episode of the podcast, people had a treat where you would have walked through |
| 0:42.8 | some of the stuff around climate change in your very optimistic rosy outlook on society, as |
| 0:49.0 | you usually do. |
| 0:49.5 | I said something optimistic. |
| 0:51.2 | I'm still wondering, you know, how I feel about that statement. |
| 0:53.8 | It's |
| 0:54.4 | definitely odd to feel hope for humanity. I don't like it. I don't like how it makes me feel. |
| 1:01.0 | Yeah. Well, your one optimistic sentence in the course of an 80-minute podcast is more than |
| 1:07.4 | I thought you would get to, but yes. Good job on that. The only other alternative was I was, you know, |
| 1:12.9 | obviously left with telling people that we're just all going to burn, especially if you live in |
| 1:16.9 | Australia. So maybe I just felt bad for our Aussie friends. I want them to feel like, I want them to feel like |
| 1:22.1 | maybe they can stop the burning. Well, speaking of burning, that is actually a perfect segue into what we are going to discuss today. |
| 1:30.3 | Today we're going to do essentially an analysis of a particular study and a focus, but much of this will then maybe move out into a more broader conversation towards the end. |
| 1:40.3 | But it comes off the back of a question that one of our premium subscribers |
| 1:45.1 | had sent in to us. This came in from Vern, who asked, what are your thoughts in the recently |
| 1:51.4 | released study in the US linking two servings per week or more of fish to a 22% increase |
| 1:58.1 | in risk of developing skin cancer? From what I read, the study didn't take into |
| 2:02.0 | account some key confounders, such as history of sun exposure and severe sunburns. So that was |
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