I live in Canada and picked up "Swiss" brand Omega 3 Fish Oil Liquid at a local health food store.

Per one teaspoon it has 850mg of EPA and 550mg of DHA.

I weigh 200 pounds and am 5'9'' working on getting my weight down.

I think I should take three teaspoons of this daily... am I right or wrong?

Thanks

P.S. what is a good type of dark chocolate to try??

That's the right dosage. You can go a little higher on the DHA, maybe add Carlson's Super-DHA, but try that first and see if your body responds.

Do you have Dove chocolate up there? Dove Dark Chocolate Promises seems to be the most readily available quality dark chocolate here in the States. Of course Lindt 70% Dark is good, and that's available worldwide.

I just went and checked out the Carlson's Super-DHA. I notice it says it has 10 IU of Vitamin E in it. I think I remember reading on the board somewhere that you shouldn't take any vitamin E with fish oil. Is that dose of E small enough that it's ok?

Excellent. So far the fish oil hasnt had any bad effects on me, so I am going to try taking three teaspoons today (in small quanities) and see how it goes!

I'm not sure about the Dove chocolate, I will look into it. We definately have Lindt and thats my favorite hopefully I wont go overboard :P

Thanks so much

I hear you on keeping the chocolate reasonable! I recommend rationing!

Vitamin E with the fish oil is fine. I used to recommend taking extra Vitamin E, over the RDA, but I don't anymore with recent research that has come out.

I do discourage people from taking fish oil with lots of other things mixed in with it, because I think it's a waste of money.

What are your thoughts about mixing the fish oil with something, such as a smoothie as mine is liquid? Or is it better to just take it alone?

That should work fine. I give my kids Coromega, and that's fish oil in a flavored paste.

Although fish oil is pretty strong-tasting stuff! It would have to be a pretty pungent smoothie to mask it.

Excellent. So far Im just taking my fish oil by spoonful and its going down okay. I'll wait to see if I can continue the taste for the rest of my life LOL

I had an interesting dream last night... is the fish oil working after only two days? Haha.

Some women do respond very quickly!