What You Can Learn from the Eskimos

So this month, you are going to get to hear a lot about my little girl. Why? Because she's smart, brilliant, funny, gorgeous...Okay, okay. She is all that, but she's also been on a real streak this month when it comes to omega 3 fish oil, and I figure that you might as well get to enjoy it as much as I have. The kid cracks me up!

So a few days after the fish vs. mini-me discussion, she came home from school with an interesting assignment. The class had been learning about eskimos - that's right; they still exist and they're still up there living in igloos in some cases - and she was supposed to come up with three things that she could learn from the eskimos.

Well, she already had two (how to build an igloo and how to say "snow" using 100 different words), but she was having some trouble coming up with a third. I suggested some fairly easy ones like "how to ice fish" and "how to stop missing summer" but she was not having any of it. Those suggestions were "too easy" and another child or that child's parent might come up with them. She needed something original.

Well, I thought back to our earlier conversation and decided to take a long shot: "You can learn to prevent heart attacks!" I announced proudly. Eskimos have been the subjects of numerous omega 3 fatty acid fish oil research studies because their diets are naturally chock-full of Arctic salmon oil, which is one of the best sources out there for omega 3 fatty acids. Numerous research studies have shown that eskimos, whose diet is very high in salmon, have a far lower instance of heart attack than most other groups of people. This is credited in large part to the high concentrations of omega 3 fatty acids in their diet.

She loved it. And I was right: no one else thought of it. Yay Mom!