In a study published in the British Journal of Cancer, Takezaki and his colleagues studied the eating habits of 4,000 healthy people and 1,000 lung cancer sufferers. They found that people who ate large amounts of fresh fish or sushi were less likely to develop lung cancer, the leading cause of cancer death in the world. Fresh fish seemed particularly to prevent the adenocarcinoma type of lung cancer. People who ate the most sushi and fresh fish had half the risk of developing the rare tumor than people who ate the least fresh fish. Salted or dried fish don't help and may even increase the risk of lung cancer.
Scientists suspect the polyunsaturated fatty acids in fish oil help lower the risk.
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