Buy One Get One Free on Omega-3 Fishoil

Ted_Hutchinson

Xstyle wrote:

Ted... then what good are "one-a-day" capsules???

I have Seven Seas "One-A-Day" Pure Code Liver Oil (with Vitamins A D E) plus Multivitamins.

"Helps Maintain Energy Levels"

These contain Pure Cod Liver oil 500 mg * Omega 3 nutrients 120 mg * Providing EPA & DHA 100 mg * Vitamin A 800 µg 100 Vitamin D 5 µg 100 Vitamin E 10 mg 100 Vitamin C 60 mg 100 Vitamin B1 (Thiamin) 1.4 mg 100 Vitamin B2 (Riboflavin) 1.6 mg 100 Niacin (Nicotinamide) 18 mg 100 Vitamin B6 2 mg 100 Folic Acid 200 µg 100 Vitamin B12 1 µg 100 Biotin 0.01 mg 7 Pantothentic Acid 6mg 100

Compared with my intake of 3000mg of EPA+DHA your 100mg does seem somewhat limited. If you need 30lb tyre pressure and you add a tenth of 1lb would it make much difference.

You cannot take more than the recommended amount of these because of the vitamin A and E content you would be overdosing and I haven't researched these as fully as I would like to be able to comment.

Consider also that you use 4000iu of Vitamin D daily, your imput through these tablets is 200iu. I take ten Vitamin D 400iu roughly 20 times the amount you are getting.

My total cost is 33p daily because I use 13p of Zipvit Omega Juice and 20p of Healthydirect vitamin D bought through Quidco but by taking an amount roughly equivalent to what I actually use during the day I feel my money is better spent than yours but that is my personal opinion and not medical or financial advice.

shokadelika

Xstyle wrote:

Ted... then what good are "one-a-day" capsules???

I have Seven Seas "One-A-Day" Pure Code Liver Oil (with Vitamins A D E) plus Multivitamins.

"Helps Maintain Energy Levels"

Seven Seas use synthetic Vitamin A in their products I would not take them and find it doubtfull they would be any help.Ted is the Omega expert and if people took time to read his excellent links in the posts they would realise that a lot of disinformation is out there and people are making fortunes selling low strength products at inflated prices .

peteraj

machtzu wrote:

Ted

Who buys 360 in one go!

I do too............................

supermick

ive recently bought 800 tablets. At 4 per day why !!!!!! around with 1 tub at a time? A gram a day seems a good achieveable target to shoot for.
Sports and diet supplements is my thing..;o)
Also, as we now have very different lifestyles than those that the origional RDA levels were based on (mid 20th century), our nutritional demands differ somewhat (Not a masive amount but they differ). I personally see no problem with under/over dosing withing reason, applying common sense and research from reputable sources.

Ted_Hutchinson

people consume at least 2% of their total daily calories as omega-3 fats. To meet this recommendation, a person consuming 2000 calories per day should eat sufficient omega-3-rich foods to provide at least 4 grams of omega-3 fatty acids.

You do have to be a bit careful about comparing like with like with Omega3 capsules. What matters is the EPA + DHA TOTAL.

Zipvit 180 EPA+120 DHA = .3g omega £9.75 360 2.7p each 27p 3g
Simply supplements 160 EPA+110= .27g omega £9.99 360 =2.8peach 30p 3g
Health direct 330 +220=.550 at 360 £31.90 (this might be lower if you went via Quidco and used voucher EP781 in January to save £2 over £10.) 3g 8.8p 48p 3g
Healthspan 180 +120= .3omega 180 capsules £7.95 4.4p 3g 44p
Holland and Barrett (sale price at the moment) 180 mg.EPA120 mg. DHA £2.49 2.5p 3g 25p
House of Health 180+120 £20.00 365 3g 54p