aaron thank you. Unfortunately those articles still do not list amounts of oils / fatty acid content in foods, which is still what I cannot seem to find in a reference format. Aaron Sugarman wrote: > flax only supplies short chain fatty acids, and not long-chains. it appears > some people must eat long-chain fatty acids in foods for proper brain > functioning, heart, etc. this is why consumption of fish is linked with lower > heart disease, so they say... Maybe that is why I eat many pounds of raw salmon or other fish at once, like 1-4 pounds in a meal or in a day when it becomes appealing to me - it supplies me with the fats? Everyone thinks i'm nuts when i get into one of these moods, and I'll buy pounds of sashimi at a time.. regards r