[quote]Posted By John on 02/02/2007 12:21 PM

Life Extension Foundation:
Super Omega-3 EPA/DHA
IFOS 5 STAR RATING!
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1 bottle..(120)..for $21.60 ea
4 bottles..."....for . $18.90 ea
10..."......."....for ... $16.81 ea

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If you take a closer look (here's the product page from the Life Extension website http://www.lef.org/newshop/items/it...0902.html) you'll note this is is not a comparable product to Zone Labs FO's and some of the other highly concentrated FO's. First of all, it's a molecularly distilled product, which puts it steps below the quality of highly concentrated FO's. Also worth noting is that it doesn't have the optimal EPA/DHA ratio. Then if you go on to take a look at the most recent IFOS consumer reports page you'll see that only two batches of this Life Extension FO received the 5 star rating during the past couple of years. If I were purchasing the product, I'd want to be sure my bottle contained FO from one of those 2 batches.

No more needs to be said, except maybe that one gets what one pays for.

sue

Ya'll are really getting into this! =o)

When you think about it people were much healthier a long, long time ago because they simply ate better. The American diet is downright horrible...a good DVD to watch is "Supersize Me". For all of us on the zone diet I bet we all just feel better which is a great indication that our bodies are healthier. We can sit and pick at all the different fish oils out there and I'm sure Dr. Sears has one of the best kinds out there but it's not affordable for everyone. (I don't hope for this)--Maybe one day someone taking large quantities of health food grade fish oil will go to the doctor and discover that they have extremely high levels of whatever in their system, turn around and file a lawsuit, and maybe in turn there will be tighter restrictions on the fish oil industry. But until then, we'll just try to choose wisely.

My son is not severely ADD so I'm sure anything will help. We got our fish oil in the mail today so I'll start him on that Sunday. I've decided to let him venture out of the zone tonight since it's Friday and he's been so cooperative saying goodbye to all of the sugary goodies he likes and tomorrow my dad is taking him to the circus so I'm sure my dad will "treat" him to some non zone friendly foods. =o)

I'll post something in a couple of weeks to let you know how things are going. Thanks so much for your opinions and input, it really has been helpful.

Vicki

Unfortunately, I have jumped in a bit late. I also wanted to share a bit that I know, as I also have an ADD daughter. Not ADHD, and it doesn't appear to be a severe case of ADD, but nonetheless, she has it.

Personally, I have not been able to get her going on fish oil--she won't swallow the capsules, and we were unable to mask the taste of the oil in liquid form. She was having problems with liquid diarrhea, also, just by increasing to 2 tsp per day. So, we are nowhere near the "recommended" level, but we are at a level that she can tolerate.

I am finding that diet control is very important, regardless of whether or not she is on fish oil. I don't worry so much about getting specific "blocks" into her, but I just don't have all sugary treats around. My kids have pretty much the same thing that I eat, with a few exceptions (taste-wise!).

One further comment and then I will have it all in. Wouldn't it be nice if fish oil were considered a "medicine" rather than a "nutritional supplement"? I had switched over to a Health Savings Account a year ago, and was hoping that I could use the money in my HSA to buy fish oil. However, I have found that fish oil is not covered under HSA. Would have been nice, as I was hoping that I could count on that money which I am setting aside for my health care needs to use for my "health promotion".