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What is IFOS? And Should You Care? IFOS stands for International Fish Oil Standards. And yes, you definitely should care! IFOS testing program is administered by NutraSource Diagnostics at the University of Guelph in Canada. IFOS is the third party testing that everyone keeps asking me about. Thanks to IFOS, you don’t have to believeRead More

Dale didn’t want to take fish oil pills any more. He’d given up meat, poultry and seafood. And so he no longer could take fish oil pills under his self-imposed new rules. “I have high triglycerides…so what do I take instead of fish oil?” he asked. This was a loaded question. I could give himRead More

Every year, I spend the second weekend of march at the Natural Products Expo in Anaheim, California. It marks the arrival of spring. And I get to see people I’ve known for 20 plus years. Hundreds of natural and organic foods manufacturers and supplement companies exhibit their products. If you can elbow you way pastRead More

In early 2010, an environmental group sued several fish oil manufacturers for selling polluted fish oil. All the major TV news channels covered the stink. Every single channel re-worded the plaintiff’s press release without digging deeper. The late Paul Harvey would have dug deeper for ‘The rest of the story.‘ The products named in theRead More

Is it possible? Can we run out of fish? Well, this year, the fishing captains of the fish oil industry could only catch 25% as much fish as last year. With booming demand from fish oil supplements and animal feed, the demand for fish oil is greater than ever. So with only a quarter of theRead More

Find out why this ‘good idea’ isn’t. Peanut butter with fish oil! What will they think of next?! Before writing this blog, I showed the new JIF Omega-3 Peanut Butter to a few people. Most of the older people I showed it to said something like ‘Why don’t you just eat some Tuna or Salmon,Read More

It’s easy to think you’re doing something good for your high triglycerides. Well, until you dig a little deeper. Uncle Sid visited me over the Holidays. Anyone who visits our family knows that sooner or later, the talk turns to health, nutrition and pills. At least it is more genuine that talking about the weatherRead More

Three easy ways to cut back on your fish oil dosage but still gets all the benefits. Carol called me from Massachusetts. She’d just started a high-intensity exercise program. As part of the program, her instructor advised her to get about 6000 mg of Omega-3 per day. That seems like a lot. Even to me.Read More

4 Tips for Telling if your Fish Oil is FRESH When you’re buying produce or fish, you look for freshness. You should do the same if you want the best fish oil supplements. But most people are not sure how to do that. What does ‘fresh’ fish oil mean? Simply put, it means that theRead More

This is Part 2 of a series on how to choose the best fish oil supplements. See Part 1 here. Omega-3 Content You’re buying fish oil for its Omega-3. Many people mistakenly think that fish oil is the same as Omega-3. It’s not! Fish oil contains Omega-3, sort of like milk contains calcium. Unfortunately, mostRead More