Posted by Larry Hoover on November 17, 2002, at 8:36:30
I am grateful to those of you who have been posting about your positive results by using fish oil augmentation. That takes fish oil out of the realm of the theoretical, and into the personal lives of people we know.
Omega-3 deficiency disease. I can see the hypotheses flying. Funding proposal anyone?
There's something I'd like to add to the issue of fish as brain food. People should eat fish, too. Fish contains a lot of other good nutrients, not easily obtainable from other foods. Eat low down the food chain wherever possible, or cold-water fish over warm-water, as a general rule of thumb. Here's a good reference on mercury contamination, which is a decent biomarker for other contaminants as well:
http://www.mercola.com/2001/apr/25/mercury_fish.htm
Canned fish has been autoclaved at high enough a temperature that even the skeleton of the fish is edible. Calcium, magnesium, selenium. Readily available and easily absorbed. I can get canned Pacific pink salmon for $0.99 Canadian. I eat it straight from the can.There is new research which suggests that proteins are not interchangeable. Remember when fat was fat, and it was all bad? We now know that it really really matters which fat you're talking about. Well, it looks like fish protein has effects in the body that cannot be replicated by substituting with other nurtritionally equivalent proteins. You heard it here first. ;-)
poster:Larry Hoover
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