Salmon is one.

Oh goody. I eat more salmon than anything else....

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Sometimes I hate people.

Um. I started taking vitamins and other supplements without making any other changes and I felt a hell of a lot better. I can tell the difference when I stop.

When I get completely exhausted for prolonged periods of time (>1 week), I take 1,000 mg of vitamin C every day for a couple of weeks and I feel much better.

It's not scientifically controlled, so I can't deliver a conclusion that might satisfy bon bon, but in the absence of making any other changes, it seems to me that the vitamin C helped a great deal.

A lot of external situations deplete vitamins from your body more rapidly than normal -- stress, smoking, diseases -- and I don't think it's unusual that people might need supplements to make up that shortfall.

That said, I'm not implying that every human, everywhere, MUST take vitamin supplements and must take the exact same amounts or OMGSCURVY!!! People in first-world countries, in general, do get an adequate amount of nutrients from their food, even if they subsist on junk food. This is true. But the question is -- is "adequate" enough?

I don't think canned tuna counts in the oily fish sweeps. Salmon is a good one, tommy. I don't think it has the same mercury level problems.

Linky to table of fatty fish

Unfortunately, eating fish is its own can of worms, what with questionable farming practices, overfishing, high levels of mercury.... Yeesh.

is "adequate" enough?

By definition.

Ooh. Swordfish and orange roughy are also fatty, and more important, highly nummy. Hmm... I've had very little trout (also fatty) so I should try that....

eating fish is its own can of worms

And sometimes they even eat worms from a can!

Fatty fish are coldwater fish -- like the kind they use in sashimi. (Tuna and salmon for example.)

I think that part of the reason that dieticians advise eating and concentrating on it is so that you get maximum enjoyment from the food and are very aware that you have eaten it. It encourages you to feel full. (My dietician recommended that I eat and not multi-task too.)

Linky to table of fatty fish

Huh. I didn't realize trout was an oily fish. And does its presence at the top of that list mean its oil content is the highest?