Re: multi-vitamins

On 30 May 2005 20:19:12 GMT, John Sankey wrote in
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"I also wonder if taking some fish oil pills might be a good idea, as
it's not that easy to reach the recommended intake of Omega-3 FAs,
even being a fish eater as I am!"

It shouldn't be difficult - what RI are you using?

Let's say the Italian RI, i.e. 1,5 g. I usually eat fish three times a
week, simmered: cod, dentex (sea bream?), some tuna, salmon, vendace (dusky
perch?), squid, shrimps, and some other bluefish and shellfish now and
then. I can't find nutritional data of all fishes though [and I am not
even sure on some English names!].

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"Mercury pollution in fish and fish oil, and quality fish oil pills
prices 😉 , are a concern too."

Data for mercury in fish is available from
http://www.cfsan.fda.gov/~frf/sea-mehg.html
Basically, skip high predators and fresh-water fish and there's
almost none.

Thanks.
I believe it also depends on the sea fish come from...
I heard that heavy metals tend to stay in cold waters rather than in warm
seas.

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Fish oil capsules here cost a lot less than fish for
long-chain FAs - see the table at the bottom of
http://sankey.ws/cholesterol.html

Well, yes... but after gobbling fish-oil pills, one has to eat some food
anyway! Thus pills are a cost to sum, not an alternative... 🙂

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Enrico C