<p>Missypie- sweetiepie…
You need to eat better! A power bar, one “real meal” for lunch and then low-fat popcorn for dinner will not make you a healthy camper! I’m also wondering why the advise to take the fish oil before bed instead of with food.
Are you getting your 5-7 daily servings of fruit and veggies? ;)</p>
<p>Yeah, I’m sure I could eat better, but if I ate everything on the food pyramid every day I’d gain two dress sizes in a month. As we age, we don’t need all that much food.</p>
<p>The current food pyramid isn’t what I would suggest, either. But vegetables and fruits are more important as we age. Real food. Even if you just had an egg and a piece of fruit and skipped the power bar (fewer calories, sugar and fake stuff and more Omega 3s from egg yolk) and ate a large green salad with a small piece of wild salmon for dinner you would improve the nutritional balance greatly. You might not even need the fish oil.
Sorry, I know you didn’t start this thread for a critique of your eating patterns 
but your meal summary really jumped out at me. I think many of the physical problems we experience as we age, like dry eyes, can be helped by dietary changes rather than supplements. Not that supplements are bad- but they don’t come close to the effectiveness of real food. Our doctors never suggest food changes- unless they come in pill form.</p>
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<p>The guy who wrote that piece seems to be selling fish oil from his web site.</p>
<p>MP – I absolutely cannot take vitamins on an empty stomach. Maybe you should try taking one after your biggest meal, whenever that is. </p>
<p>Personally, I take two 3-6-9 Complete Omega capsules from Central Market brand. They suggest 3, but i cannot stomach that. I think it helps keep my skin from looking more leathery than necessary.</p>
<p>Missypie,</p>
<p>Maybe you are swallowing air along with your fish oil capsules and that’s what is causing your discomfort.</p>
<p>Last year, I decided to start supplementing my diet with calcium, fish oil capsules, and vitamins. The first few weeks I felt as though I had rocks in my stomach all the time. I think I was swallowing lots of air along with the pills. (I’ve always had trouble swallowing pills. I recall lots of drama when I was a kid over the issue. I simply couldn’t get them down and it drove my parents bonkers.) After getting better at swallowing my supplements, the uncomfortable feeling disappeared.</p>
<p>I figured out what the problem was. When I took fish oil supplements a couple of years ago, I bought a very high quality pill. This time around I took my husband’s ultra-cheap ones. (I swear he burps more in a day that I have our entire marriage.) I could probably do fine if I went back to the high quality ones, but now I’m grossed out by the very idea of them and have bought the flax seed oil capsules. Hope they work!</p>