PonderingWillow has found a link between a news article and a link between pollutants found in oily fish and type two diabetes. This isn’t one of those “if you do this you’ll get this” links, but it is one of those “people who eat this tend to have this” links.
(Aside: the open source people have this great “free as in beer” and “free as in speech” set of analogies to describe which kind of “free” they’re talking about in any given situation. Science needs something like that for “link.” Any proposals?)
In this particular study (that’s “study as in research,” not “study as in room where Professor Plum did it with the candlestick,” and yes, that “did it as in killed someone,” not whatever your poor depraved mind was thinking), it seems that something called a persistent organic pesticide (POP) tends to sit around in fatty deposits for a long time, so when a fish absorbs them and then gets eaten by a human, the POP goes into the human’s fatty tissues, food-chain style, and these POPs may be linked in some way to type 2 diabetes, which was the one they used to call adult onset diabetes before the kids started jumping the queue.
At the moment, the research seems to be a chain of statements that may or may not make up a logical conclusion: POPs may be linked to diabetes. POPs can gather in oily fish. If you eat oily fish you may inherit those POPs, and their possible link to diabetes.
Isn’t it weird that fish oil is supposed to be slippery, and yet all these nasty things like POPs, mercury, heavy metals, PCBs, etc tend to get stuck in it?
