Advantages of getting your vitamin D from high-fat fish instead of pills

The Linus Pauling Institute at Oregon State University recommends that adults get about 2000 IU of vitamin D per day. That's up from their recommendation of only 800 IU per day several years ago. It's not practical to get 2000 IU of vitamin D from sunshine without damaging your skin now and risking skin cancer in the future. Most people would choose to conveniently swallow vitamin D pills. According to the Linus Pauling Institute, a 3-ounce serving of canned pink salmon contains 530 IU of vitamin D. What would be the advantages and disadvantages of getting your vitamin D from high-fat fish instead of pills? The main disadvantage would be that eating fish every day would use up your daily allowance for animal protein. You wouldn't be able to eat any beef, pork, lamb, chicken, turkey, cheese, or eggs any more without damaging your body's acid-alkaline balance (important for osteoporosis prevention). The advantage of eating fish almost every day to get your 2000 IU of vitamin D is that you would greatly reduce your risk of developing all cancers, heart attacks, strokes, high blood pressure, adult-onset diabetes, pneumonia, and Alzheimer's disease. The Inuit (Eskimos) of Greenland smoke cigarettes more heavily than anybody else in the entire world. So you would expect their heart attack rate and cancer rate to be at least double the corresponding rate for the U.S., right? Wrong. The Inuit of Greenland have only half the total cancer rate of the U.S. - even though their lung cancer rate is rising due to their very heavy smoking - and cardiovascular disease is virtually non-existent among the Greenland Inuit. Why? Because the Eskimos are hunters who eat (1) fish and (2) marine mammals that eat fish and/or krill. (The body fat of marine mammals that eat fish and/or krill is very high in omega-3 fatty acids). Their osteoporosis rate is high because they don't eat much fruits or vegetables. Their stomach cancer rate is high because they use salt to make their fish and marine mammal meat taste better. They lack the antioxidants in fruits and vegetables to block the effect of cancer-causing nitrosamines in the salted meat. Yet, their overall cancer rate is much lower than the U.S. due to their high consumption of the two long-chain omega-3 fatty acids found in fish fat, namely, eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) and docosahexaenoic acid (DHA). Laboratory experiments with human cancer cells implanted into mice indicate that DHA is even more effective than EPA at preventing and slowing down existing cancers while alpha-linolenic acid (ALA) is close to useless for cancer prevention and treatment. I've bookmarked the following web addresses for myself: http://lpi.oregonstate.edu/infocenter/vitamins/vitaminD/ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12540414?ordinalpos=11&itool=EntrezSyste m2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_DefaultReportPanel.Pubmed_RVDo cSum http://cebp.aacrjournals.org/cgi/content/full/12/9/926 http://wholehealthsource.blogspot.com/2008/07/cancer-among-inuit.html http://www.scienceagogo.com/news/20051010003544data_trunc_sys.shtml http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15736672?ordinalpos=1&itool=EntrezSystem 2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_DiscoveryPanel.Pubmed_Discovery _RA&linkpos=2&log$=relatedarticles&logdbfrom=pubmed http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7752256?ordinalpos=1&itool=EntrezSystem2 .PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_DiscoveryPanel.Pubmed_Discovery_ RA&linkpos=2&log$=relatedarticles&logdbfrom=pubmed http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15213050?ordinalpos=1&itool=EntrezSystem 2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_DiscoveryPanel.Pubmed_Discovery _RA&linkpos=1&log$=relatedarticles&logdbfrom=pubmed http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12359365 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15956652?ordinalpos=1&itool=EntrezSystem 2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_DiscoveryPanel.Pubmed_Discovery _RA&linkpos=1&log$=relatedarticles&logdbfrom=pubmed http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Docosahexaenoic_acid http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eicosapentaenoic_acid http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/fulltext/118634720/HTMLSTART http://www.jacn.org/cgi/content/abstract/25/6/480 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17634174?ordinalpos=1&itool=EntrezSystem 2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_DiscoveryPanel.Pubmed_Discovery _RA&linkpos=2&log$=relatedarticles&logdbfrom=pubmed http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17217138?ordinalpos=1&itool=EntrezSystem 2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_DiscoveryPanel.Pubmed_Discovery _RA&linkpos=3&log$=relatedarticles&logdbfrom=pubmed