RE: Digest Number 595

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Jason,

 

I think another question one would need to ask is, is the EPA and DHA broken

down by cooking in the way that most people cook eggs? I don't know about

anyone else, but I know I'd prefer a gel cap over a raw egg any day of the

week :>

 

I tried to do some quick internet research on the subject but came up with

widely differing opinions on whether one can cook with flax seed oil (and

that's not directly analogous to cooking an egg with the same components

anyways.. are there components in eggs that would somehow affect the EPA and

DHA?).

 

I would never in a million years think of cooking flax seed oil, but I can't

say that I have any good reason for this besides my mother's admonishings.

 

And since many of the good components of flax seed oil are found in fish

oils.. and people cook fish.. who knows.

 

This reminded me of something one of my pathology professors said to me (an

M.D.).. that B-vitamin supplemented beer has come on the market. Has anyone

seen this? (The idea being that beer more than any other alcoholic beverage

supposedly leeches out of your body certain B-vitamins) I laughed and

laughed.. how wonderful, let's put ALL our vitamins in beer and have a good

time of supplementing! But....... the unfortunate news is since the beer

itself leeches the B-vitamins out, although you may be injesting them, the

beer may not be allowing you to absorb them. Tricky marketing!

 

Best,

Nadia

 

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>Message: 9

> Sat, 07 Aug 2004 01:56:58 -0000

> " " <

>Fish vs Egg

>

> " What is especially important for vegetarian diets, is the

>eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) + docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) content of

>these eggs. When hens are fed flax seed, the richest plant source of

>alpha-linolenic fatty acid (ALA) in the North American diet, they

>break down some of the ALA into the two desirable fatty acids, making

>their eggs excellent sources of both EPA and DHA "

>

>One of my patients sent this to me.. I wonder could this compete at

>all with fish oil supplementation (for EPA & DHA)? Does anyone know

>how much EPA/DHA such an egg would have?

>

>-

 

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