09 January 2009

If you thought your mother or grandmother first thought of giving you cod liver oil for your health - you were way off the mark!

• Roman soldiers were given a daily ration of fermented fish/liver oil.
• Scandinavian vikings had a drum of fermented cod livers outside the door of their homes.
• Cod liver oil was the focus of a worldwide health initiative in the first half of the 1900s - the government, schoolsamd churches helped to drive this project
• In the war years up until the 1950s the British government issued cod liver oil to all growing children

Why has cod liver oil decreased in popularity since then?

It's a food - it can't be made in a lab and patented and monopolised by drug companies.

Mother nature has always provided us with what we need to eat.  Cod liver oil is a perfect example of vitamin A and vitamin D working in synergy.