Posted by BeardedLady on December 18, 2002, at 12:44:39
In reply to Re: Fish oil is not a drug? - LARRY HOOVER » BeardedLady, posted by bluedog on December 18, 2002, at 10:17:50
> Hi Beardy, I haven't seen many posts from you lately. I'm Glad to see you are still around and I hope you are starting to feel a little bit better since you lost your "little furry boy".
Yes, a little bit better, thanks!
> Yes you are right that this post was also directed at you. You'll have to forgive me because I'm also not thinking straight at the moment and my posts are also not particularly coherent. I generally need to check my posts at least ten times to check for spelling and grammar mistakes to get things at least half right and am not coping well at the current time. I returned to work on Monday after 4 months of sick leave and since returning to work I have suddenly become severely depressed again. I hope this is only a temporary thing and that my mood will soon stabilise again.
I just got back from my therapist's office. He was happy to see my funk had ended and thought I was particularly up today. He asked me before I left what I've learned about these episodes, and I told him that I learned they come but they also go, and they just have to play themselves out. And if I get another, I need to just go with the flow, pamper myself, excuse myself a little, and get done what needs doing.
I think we all have to start thinking of every state as temporary. That means reveling in our joyous times and waiting out the dark times. I hope yours goes by quickly.
> I wasn't correcting you on that point but was relaying my personal doseages for Shelli. I hope you didn't feel I was being pedantic or anything like that because that was not my intention.
No way. Nothing like that. I was just wondering if people were taking too much too soon. I'm afraid of anything that comes in pill form (in the olden days, I took drugs I didn't recognize--without fear; these days, I worry about my immortality), so I take the smallest dose for a few days and work up to a bigger one.
I was just commenting that you were right; I forgot about the EPA distinction because I'd read it so long ago.
> I HATE all books like the Zone diet books and the Atkins diet books etc. I think you can extract SOME useful information from these books but if you follow them religiously your life becomes a living hell filled with guilt and anxiety about what you eat. I mean in the Zone diet if you even so much as look at a banana you will be condemned to metabolic damnation and the fires of hell will consume your entire being.
Yes, Zone has that tendency. He's a food nazi, that guy. I'm still thinking about Adkins. I think there's a happy medium, but I want to read his book. I never got around to it the first go round.
> I did make the point that I only consume 5 grams of fish oil compared to the eskimos 18 grams of fish oil daily. I agree that their environment necessitates such a high consumption but I am in no way saying that us westerners should consume that much omega-3 EFA's. I am proposing that we bring the amount of omega -3 consumption up to healthier levels that probably existed in earlier generations in the regions that most of us live in.
Yes, you're probably right.
> When I talked about our ancestors I was not talking about our ancient ancestors but was actually talking about our grandparents from only a few generations ago who had a much healthier omega-3 to omega-6 ratio than the current crop of "baby-boomers" and their children. {I suppose that means US :) :) }Me too. But I hadn't seen your ancestors comment, so I wasn't responding to it. We are like two trains on parallel tracks!
> I was trying to emphasize that since the advent of the food processing industry (probably only since the last fifty years) that our consumption of omega-6 has risen exponentially and our consumption of omega-3 has dropped substantially. This has lead to problems in our societies health overall state of health (cardiovascular health, joint and tissue health and mental health) given our CURRENT evolutionary makeup and that this balance can be redressed by minimising the types of fats we currently eat too much of (mainly processed and hydrogenated vegetable oils) and by taking more omega-3 in the form of supplements because there are so few good natural sources of omega-3 left. In my grandfathers youth even the beef had quite good levels of omega-3 and margarine was not even invented yet.
Yes, yes, yes. And note that since the FDA has begun allowing preservatives, it takes (I don't know the statistic her, but it's a big 'un) much longer for our bodies to decompose.
> I again emphasise that you take some time to study the research and writings of Mary Enig Phd who is an absolute guru on this topic and has been a lone voice against the power of the food processing industry for over 20 years
I'll look into her.
> I believe we can learn alot from other cultures and have the option nowadays to pick and choose the good parts from the diets of other cultures and incorporate it into our own diets. I strongly believe that we are heading more and more towards an inter-mingling of dietary cultures and are heading towards what I would term a "world cuisine"
That's how I do religion. Woiks fo' me.
Nice chattin' wif you. Woof woof.
beardy
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