“I can’t eat fish, I am a strict Vegan!” I have heard that rather often in my career. Now in most cases Vegans and Vegetarians decide to consume at least the oil from fish, sans the capsules and of course the fish itself. But a whole industry has been spawned (no pun intended) around “alternate”

When I was in high school, I had a few friends I would call dangerous.  They liked me for some reason, but they were not the kind of people you’d hang around, as they were constantly in fights or trouble with the law.  As far as I know, none of them amounted to much and

You hear a lot about the dangers of taking rancid fish oil. You here about how bad it is for you. You hear about the dangers of oxidized fatty acids in your body from rancid fish oil. And of course, finally, you hear you should not take fish oil but some other marine-based Omega 3

I get a lot of emails from people who don’t like to eat fish and others who are concerned about mercury in fish. I can understand both.  When I was a kid, the fish we got here in Pennsylvania was anything but fresh and it did not leave a pleasant experience in my memory. In the

As time goes, on people realize more and more the importance of treating your body to the best. It seems like every day there is a new oil claiming to be “as good as” fish oil. Some come from birds, some come from plants, some come from plankton, but none have the weight of evidence that

Most of the focus in Western society is on the appearance of fat. We have billions of dollars in the sales of diet pills that come and go.  As usual, until Big Pharma comes up with a safe, viable (read: incredibly profitable) diet pill, the concept of “diet pills” remains a dirty little secret. No

Heart disease is currently the number one killer of Americans and has been for decades. It takes more lives and ends more dreams than cancer. It claims 5x as many lives as infections and strokes. And in most cases is it is preventable. With the exception of rare genetic mutations, heart disease could be staved