Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!cmcl2!husc6!husc2!chiaraviglio From: chiaraviglio@husc2.UUCP (lucius) Newsgroups: sci.bio Subject: Re: Fish Oils Message-ID: <1091@husc2.UUCP> Date: Tue, 6-Jan-87 01:49:56 EST Article-I.D.: husc2.1091 Posted: Tue Jan 6 01:49:56 1987 Date-Received: Tue, 6-Jan-87 18:55:21 EST References: <941@midas.UUCP> <441@omen.UUCP> <835@aecom.UUCP> <2917@diku.UUCP> Organization: Harvard Univ. Science Ctr., Cambridge, MA Lines: 17 In article <2917@diku.UUCP>, thorinn@diku.UUCP (Lars Henrik Mathiesen) writes: > . . .By the way vitamin D is > toxic in large doses, and this is the reason why Greenland Eskimos never eat > the liver of the polar bear - it's so full of vitamin D concentrated from the > fish the bear eats that it's poisonous to humans. Don't you mean Vitamin A? Maybe both. (I know both are toxic in large doses, but which one (or both) are present in toxic doses in polar bear liver? -- I remember reading it was Vitamin A.) -- -- Lucius Chiaraviglio lucius@tardis.harvard.edu seismo!tardis!lucius Please do not mail replies to me on husc2 (disk quota problems, and mail out of this system is unreliable). Please send only to the address given above.