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While waiting at one my Chiropractor visits lately, I was able to read through one of the many informational articles that he has posted on his board for people to browse through while they are waiting for their appointment.

This article caught my eye due to the fact that this supplement is now VERY popular and you hear its name being mentioned everywhere – radio, articles etc. After reading it for a short time I quickly realized on how many people this article could pertain to and possibly affect.

I unfortunately don’t know the author of this article because it’s just a photocopy of the article taken from something. There is however a couple of names at the end of the article that had commented on this subject which I will include in this blog post assuming that they had a part in or they actually wrote this article.

Well, here is the article in its entirety….hope you enjoy it and find it as interesting as I did.

     Could your Omega-3 Capsules be Turning Into Lard?

Following the huge increase in sales of Omega 3 fish oil supplements over the last two years, some unscrupulous manufactures are using raw fish oil full of toxins and saturated fats to profit from the unsuspecting consumer.

With sales of Omega-3 supplements going through the roof, consumers believing their health will improve in leaps and bounds could be in for a huge shock. Instead of ingesting healthy purified Omega-3 they could be swallowing capsules of lard.

The EU supplements directive which came into force in July of last year was supposedly to be designed to protect the consumer, however, Omega-3 fish oils were not included in the legislation.

With sales rocketing ahead, in recent months the price of refined fish oil has risen considerably, leading to unscrupulous companies buying their raw material from the cheap unregulated sources.

How can they get away with it? Because bad fish oil looks the same as good fish oil. Add to that, the price pressure being put on suppliers by the large supermarkets, (who rarely do their own product testing and continue to screw suppliers into the ground) and once again the consumer suffers.

How then can the consumer discover whether their Omega-3 capsules contain good fat or bad fat?

Troubled by the low grade of many supermarket products worldwide, Dr Vlad Coric of Yale University a specialist in essential fatty acids devised a simple test to enable consumers to discover whether they have purchased refined Omega-3 fish oil or a variation of lard.

The test he devised can be tried in your kitchen and easily distinguishes the good from the bad.

Since Omega-3 fatty acids are unsaturated (“good”) fats, they remain liquid even when the temperature is below room temperature; however, saturated fats solidify below room temperature and consequently, lower purity Omega-3 products (lower levels of Omega-3’s and higher saturated or “unwanted” or “bad” fats) will solidify in a like fashion. Simply place your Omega-3 capsules in the freezer for 24 hours and if they turn white and cloudy you are consuming lard.

Tests were conducted using a number of supermarket and High street products against Omax3 pharmaceutical grade Omega-3 distributed in Europe by First Vitality International (www.1stvitality.com) with startling results.

Dr Vlad Coric commented:

“The test gives the customer an easy way to visualize why purity is important. Most people don’t realize how impure their products are because they all look the same at room temperature, consequently, people choose the least expensive fish oil as they all look the same”

David Ferguson CEO First Vitality International commented:

“The use of the word is grossly overused by the pile em high sell em cheap brigade”.

Dr. Vlad Coric, M.D. is Chief of inpatient services at the Yale Clinical Neuroscience Research Uint and assistant clinical professor, Yale University School of Medicine.