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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
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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.)

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