Bodyhacking update (already posted to Fbook around 3pm)

[serpentstar]

As I tuck in to a brunch of Viana smoked tofu (the tastiest straight-from-the-packet tofu -- best bet if you want tofu but don't have a really good and dedicated veggie cook handy) and mixed beansprouts, first food after an 18-hour fast, fresh from my afternoon nap (brief today, because I was hungry and had just unpacked a load of food from

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[serpentstar]

Goldacre doesn't ever mention the need for dietary Omega-3, though! He complains (rightly) about the lack of science in the fish oil supps for kid-brains studies, and then (wrongly) leaps from there to moaning about the general increase in fish oil sales in shops, calling the whole thing a "fishy business", etc. It's not that he ever denies Omega 3 is necessary -- he just doesn't ever mention it. The current FSA recommendation is 450mg/day of long-chain Omega 3, which most people in the UK don't get from their diets, so supplementation makes sense.

[serpentstar]

He is a busy man -- but part of his job should surely be to avoid misleading the public about science issues of public importance, and some of his articles on fish oil *do* do that, by implying, rather lazily, that there's just no need at all for fish oil supplementation and that the whole industry is bogus.

[utopia_necro]

i understand that from red meat consumption you would get omega 3.
we don't have the entirely devoid omega 3 meat that americans have simply because our meat, particularly beef, is free range as opposed to production style produced.

cow eats gass and makes omega 3, we eat cow and get omega 3.

fish oil is still good and i do supplement it anyway, when i remember, along with vit d and zn/ma combi.

[utopia_necro]

there are a number of facets to this