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My mind was wandering as I sat thru the ACLS Course How did my mom learn about cod liver oil ? She grew up east of the the Kyber Pass near the Afghan border. She was the top student in her class in Kohat in the North West Frontier Province of undivided India.
But where did she learn about that stinky, nauseating tablespoon that I had no choice but to drink. She wouldn’t take no for an answer. I cried, got upset and I held my nose and drank it !That is what I was thinking during my ACLS course last week as they taught us about sudden death.
Daydreaming again but now I was too old to be kicked out of class! This was a welcome change from my 8th grade Physics class with Father Thotuvellil years ago at St Xavier’s Jaipur.
What is ACLS some of you wonder? Well this is when EMT’s, nurses and doctors work frantically to revive you after you suddenly die.

Skill, teamwork and luck improve your odds of being brought back to life successfully.Luck especially.

So have a witnessed cardiac arrest around a trained provider who has an AED or automatic electronic defibrillator on hand and he can “shock you” as quickly as possible. Learn ACLS.
And then as I looked around the room at the class I thought how many of us continue to live on God’s earth eating McDonald’s fries (McDonald’s french fries just got fatter ), smoking, eating farmed salmon loaded with carcinogenic stuff.(organochlorine contamination in farmed salmon), not eating N Dakota flax and hoping to get lucky again when we get Ventricular fibrillation again.

Could we change? Before we get shocked.V Fib, is treated with a DC electric shock. V Fib and V tach are the most common and, if-they-find-you-and-shock-you-quickly, reversible cause of sudden death.

Could we just change what we eat?

Dietary omega-3 fatty acids stabilize the myocardium electrically, resulting in reduced susceptibility to ventricular arrhythmias and a marked decrease in risk of sudden cardiac death and reduction in all-cause mortality.Oily fish is good for you even the Wall Street Journal and JAMA agree.

Trans fats increase sudden death. Omega 3s reduce it.

Brain Blockers-Trans Fats reduce IQ. Omega 3s increase it.

New York is right says Dr Willett of Harvard in banning Trans fats.

But how did my momma know this stinky stuff was so good for me. ?

Nutrition is more than laboratory science. Nutrition is us smart humans listening to the wisdom of our elders, learning from observation of nature, and not getting blown away by marketing and the one dollar menu.

My momma is smart.
Thank you momma!

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