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You may have caught recent news reports that fried fish can cause heart problems. But that's no reason to hang up the fishing reel. A large study in the journal  Circulation: Heart Failure  found that eating fried fish at least once a week was associated with a 48 percent higher risk of heart failure.  This wasn't the first study to raise red flags about fried fish. A 2005 Harvard study, for instance, linked frequent consumption of fried fish to a 44 percent increased risk of stroke. And findings from a study in  Neurology  suggested that one reason why people in the "stroke belt" states of the South have higher rates of stroke is that Southerners eat more fried fish than other Americans. Still, you shouldn't stop eating fish. After all, the latest study, which included only women, also reaffirmed that fish is good for your heart--if you broil or bake it. Those who ate five or more servings a week of baked/broiled fish over a 10-year period had a 30 pe...