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Omega 3 in Fish

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• Re: Omega 3 in Fish CB 09:16:08 3/04/01 (0)
• Re: Omega 3 in Fish (Archive in essential oils.) Walt Stoll 08:02:48 3/04/01 (0)
• Re: Omega 3 in Fish Linda C. 08:53:42 3/02/01 (0)

In Reply to: Omega 3 in Fish posted by Ben on March 02, 2001 at 01:59:34:

I read that most salmon offered for sale in your grocery store is farm raised. The fish is fed grain so it is lacking the Omega 3 concentration of deep sea/cold water salmon. You might want to eat a variety of cold water fish to get your Omega 3's.

Just a thought, if what I read is correct.

In Reply to: Omega 3 in Fish posted by Ben on March 02, 2001 at 01:59:34:

Hi, Ben.

Listen to Linda (Thanks, Linda!)

It certainly helps to eat the fish--as she recommends--since we have not yet discovered all the oils we need, for optimum health, which are still contained in deep sea (cold-water) fish--waiting to BE discovered. This is just like eating whole foods instead of trying to get everything from supplements when we still do not even know all the supplements one would need for optimal health.

Wild animals are high in essential fatty acids whereas farm animals are nearly destitute in them. Is it any wonder that practically 100% of Americans are deficient? Farm eggs are high in essential fatty acids (so long as the chickens are permitted to run on the ground) whereas commercial eggs, raised in wire cages, are devoid of them. Of course, now they have developed a chicken feed, with some essential oils in them, that produces eggs with a higher level than those with none. Have you seen how much THEY cost?

Why do you think that there has never been a case of salmonella in eggs from free-range chickens?? They are just healthy enough to produce fertilizable eggs--which have to be bacteria free.

Check with your reference library about how much Omega 3 there is in a whole fish. You will find, that if you can eat about 200 fish a week, you might approach the dose needed to not only repair a deficiency but cope with the stresses of today.

Hope this helps.

Walt

In Reply to: Omega 3 in Fish posted by Ben on March 02, 2001 at 01:59:34:

Cold pressed, organic flax seed oil is a great source
of omega-3. It is found in most health food stores and
keeps about 3 weeks after opening.