[ScottM1968]

The US Food and Drug Administration suggests we all get up to 3 grams of Omega-3 oil daily.

This equates to 10 1-gram fish oil concentrate pills (only 300 mg of each are Omega-3's).

The report, dated September 2004, suggested that more than that amount could reduce clotting and have the other effects of which you and I are speaking.

Since a serving of salmon has 1 gram of Omega-3's, one would need three servings a day of salmon (the most Omega-3 dense fish) to meet the point at which the caution occurs.

Therefore, going beyond that amount is where the risk comes in.

I don't know anyone who would be going much beyond three helpings of salmon each and every day, do you?

http://www.fda.gov/bbs/topics/news/2004/NEW01115.html

[Veto!]

I'm an infrequent fish eater (yuk, it makes the house smell fishy) and daily fish oil user. I look carefully at the composition of Omega 3s and especially want Eicosapentaenoic Acid (EPA). My guide for this is Barry Sears, author of the Zone Diet books and a high-level ivy-league biochemist who trains Olympic athletes.

If you use fish oil, you might check out Natural Factors RxOmega-3 Factors, pharmaceutical grade, with 630 mg Omega3 in each cap, 400 of which is EPA. Nice product! I found it at www.iherb.com at a very good price.

Also, because I live in the gloomy northwest, I take Cod Liver Oil in the winter, buy Carlson's Norwegian 1000 mg, supposedly the most pure product available. So that also gives me an additional 240 mg of Omega 3. Also available at iherb.com at a nice discount.

And to think I used to live in Florida and had a vacation house in Key Largo. Who worries about fish oil there?