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Originally Posted by InfiniteNow

Funny, as I always saw magic mushies as richer in vitamin whee.

LOL
A new vitamin?

Thanks some interesting links.
I don't eat a lot of fish these days since they found out Sydney fishermen and their children, where full of chlorinated hydrocarbons from an old ICI plant (making agent orange for Viet-nam war??). They had to send the fisher-folk's blood to Germany to get tested; so that means the Health Department here is/can not monitoring the situation.

I love raw tuna as served in Japanese restaurants
But Japan is buying soo much Oz fish that the price has gone through the roof
It all starts at $20 a kilo, and the sky is literally the limit.

A STORY
Having lunch at Terrigal Beach one day and a high-tech, super-boat road into the beach. The men in the boat carefully lifted something out of the boat with uncharacteristic gentleness and care.
"Look!" my imaganative wife said" "Drug runners!"
"Eh?! " I said
"How else would they afford a boat like that and why are they being so precious about unloading it?"
I had another look.
They were unloading a huge blue fin Tuna that that afternoon would be on a first class QUANTAS plane flight to Japan.

"Catalyst" a very good ABC science show is doing a doco. on Japan and its insatiable love of fish this week.
If it is any good, I will post it on the "So long, and thanks for all the fish" thread

I was interested in this comment:-

In addition, breast milk may not contain a sufficient amount of vitamin D, so exclusively breast-fed infants may require supplemental vitamin D.

this annoyed me.
The SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE IS Part of the planet too.

It is particularly important for individuals with limited sun exposure to include good sources of vitamin D in their diets. Homebound individuals, people living in northern latitudes, individuals who wear clothing that completely covers the body, and individuals working in occupations that prevent exposure to sunlight are at risk for vitamin D deficiency.

Ignorance and neglect of this fact just leads to this sort anger and perhaps a little anti-social behaviour You must check out this link to see what I mean..
SatireWire | Australia Gets Drunk, Wakes Up in North Atlantic

This was an interesting quirky fact too

Obesity is also associated with vitamin D deficiency. Since vitamin D is fat-soluble, it can be taken into fat cells and stored, thus making it potentially less available in our body's metabolism.

the drug interactions were a bit scary too especially with such widely (universally ?) used drugs like ant acids

Hormone replacement therapy may increase blood levels of vitamin D.

I'll bet there is a lot more vit. D deficiency than we realise.
A Muslim woman, wearing purdah, living in high latitudes?

What a long list!

Vitamin D may play a role in the prevention and/or treatment of the following health conditions:

• * Atherosclerosis
• * Breast cancer
• * Colon cancer
• * Ovarian cancer
• * Depression
• * Epilepsy
• * Hypertension
• * Inflammatory bowel disease
• * Kidney disease
• * Liver disease
• * Multiple sclerosis
• * Osteoporosis
• * Periodontal disease
• * Preeclampsia
• * Psoriasis
• * Tinnitus
• * Ulcerative colitis