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Doug
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posted 01 February 2006 12:45 PM
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Originally posted by Tehanu:
For a while my mother figured we needed it, so she bought these geletin-covered caplets the size of horse pills. Assuming you managed to choke them down before they melted in your mouth (an experience in no way comparable to M&Ms), you were still burping fish guts for the rest of the day.
I'm taking something like that now. Not cod liver, but fish oil nevertheless. There's some, but by no means absolute, evidence for omega-3 fatty acids alleviating depression. I haven't been responding to antidepressants as well as I'd like, so I figured - why not? So yeah, I do get the fish burps, but it's not so bad, I think. It just feels like I ate fish a little while ago.
From: Toronto, Canada | Registered: Apr 2001
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Mr. Anonymous
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posted 08 February 2006 01:32 AM
Krill is apparently quite good. Clean, decent tasting, plentiful, and cheap. If one doesn't like the taste, capsules are usually available. As for health, most people would benefit from more Omega-3 fatty acids, found in salmon and other fish products.
From: Somewhere out there... Hey, why are you logging my IP address? | Registered: Jan 2004
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Sleeping Sun
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posted 08 February 2006 08:41 AM
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Originally posted by Willowdale Wizard:
where do you stand on the great cod liver oil debate? call now, operators are standing by.
I am decidely in favour of cod liver oil. Really, I can't sing its praises enough. I realize this is purely anecdotal and not scientific at all, but I feel it was instrumental in improving my quality of life by both 1) reducing the crippling pain I was suffering due to endo to teeny cramps easily tackeld with tylenol, and 2) alleviating my SAD such that (so far) this is the first winter in a decade I have made it into Feb. both drug free and without suffering a major depressive episode. I tried choking down the regular oil. I couldn't. It turns out I can only handle the expensive stuff, not the drugstore stuff, and only then becuase it comes in a lemon flavour. I tried the pills, but had to take a lot to get the same eha/dha/whatever-it-is as the pure oil, and I had the fish burps all the time. Not fun. This message brought to you by your local Cod Liver Oil Is Good For You Association member. 
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anne cameron
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posted 08 February 2006 12:02 PM
GACK!!!JEEEEZUS, what kind of fish are you people eating if you think cod liver oil tastes "fishy"? Cod liver oil tastes the way fish fertilizer smells! And to get fish fertilizer you first have to rot the fish. Every morning, all year long, Annie made us take a tablespoon of cod liver oil. At least she let us wait until after breakfast so everything didn't taste like gack. I was given a border collie puppy who was, of course, named "Laddie". Second week he was with us I got in line, my brother lined up behind me, facing Annie and the dreaded bottle and spoon. Laddie got in line behind my brother. Annie declared him the smartest puppy ever! Laddie loved it. A friend tells me the stuff coats your stomach and intestines and impairs the digestive process and is probably anything except "good for you". But if you want stink...First Nations seal or oolichan oil will curl your hair. I absolutely cannot eat it. Even the smell invites me to hurl.
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