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COULD COD LIVER OIL TABLETS INCREASE IQ OR JUST GIVE FISH BREATH?
Recently you may have noticed that many products have started to add Omega 3's fatty acids to their products. Most of the research done has shown cod liver oil (which contains high levels of Omega 3) to increase childhood literacy, to cure schizophrenia, to even bring dead brain cells back to life and increase their reproductive abilities. I have been taking cod liver oil tablets, 1000mg a day for years now and I'm doing well at university now. So do you feel maybe cod-liver oil has something to offer without any side effects or is it all just hype? I personally take cod liver oil to help prevent mental problems; it can't hurt and it could help. After all we were once fish, and our brains developed around the time of eating mostly smaller fish, nowadays we don't eat much fish at all and it hurts us.
Could Cod Liver Oil tablets increase IQ or just give fish breath?
Yes, because... Cod Liver Oil tablets?
Recently you may have noticed that many products have started to add Omega 3's fatty acids to their products. Most of the research done has shown cod liver oil, which contains high levels of Omega 3 to increase childhood literacy, to cure schizophrenia, to even bring dead brain cells back to life and increase their reproductive abilities.
I have been taking cod liver oil tablets, 1000mg a day for years now and I'm doing well at university now. So do you feel maybe cod-liver oil has something to offer without any side effects or is it all just hype?
I personally take cod liver oil to help prevent mental problems; it can't hurt and it could help. After all we were once fish, and our brains developed around the time of eating mostly smaller fish, nowadays we don't eat much fish at all and it hurts us.
Flaws in the Affirmative's argumentation: - Extrapolates an anecdote (i.e. a single datapoint) into a broad conclusion for other people that may not be true for others. ("I take fish oil and claim to not be crazy so you should take it too!") - Assumes cod liver oil "can't hurt". On the contrary, it certainly could hurt. In the exact same way that drinking too much water is life threatening, an overdose of cod oil could be dangerous for people with allergies to the components of cod liver oil. Cod liver oil could also have negative long term consequences that the uncited studies may point out.
The main line of the negative's argumentation rests that anyone suggesting that not only could cod liver oil tablets increase IQ, it could also some how freshen breath, must be insane. This means that in this debate, if we accept the Affirmative's claims that we will be smart and healthy like them, we will also actually become crazy enough to think that cod liver oil can give fresh breath. To top it off, the Affirmative also claims that we were once fish, and apparently not eating fish hurts us.
I therefore propose as a counter plan simply eating fish, which we know from several millennia of eating fish to be safe and healthy for most people, instead of consuming cod liver oil tablets.
Vote on this point: Cod Liver Oil tablets?
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Could Cod Liver Oil tablets increase IQ or just give fish breath?
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Point 1. Cod Liver Oil tablets?
Recently you may have noticed that many products have started to add Omega 3's fatty acids to their products. Most of the research done has shown cod liver oil, which contains high levels of Omega 3 to increase childhood literacy, to cure schizophrenia, to even bring dead brain cells back to life and increase their reproductive abilities.
I have been taking cod liver oil tablets, 1000mg a day for years now and I'm doing well at university now. So do you feel maybe cod-liver oil has something to offer without any side effects or is it all just hype?
I personally take cod liver oil to help prevent mental problems; it can't hurt and it could help. After all we were once fish, and our brains developed around the time of eating mostly smaller fish, nowadays we don't eat much fish at all and it hurts us.
Flaws in the Affirmative's argumentation: - Extrapolates an anecdote (i.e. a single datapoint) into a broad conclusion for other people that may not be true for others. ("I take fish oil and claim to not be crazy so you should take it too!") - Assumes cod liver oil "can't hurt". On the contrary, it certainly could hurt. In the exact same way that drinking too much water is life threatening, an overdose of cod oil could be dangerous for people with allergies to the components of cod liver oil. Cod liver oil could also have negative long term consequences that the uncited studies may point out.
The main line of the negative's argumentation rests that anyone suggesting that not only could cod liver oil tablets increase IQ, it could also some how freshen breath, must be insane. This means that in this debate, if we accept the Affirmative's claims that we will be smart and healthy like them, we will also actually become crazy enough to think that cod liver oil can give fresh breath. To top it off, the Affirmative also claims that we were once fish, and apparently not eating fish hurts us.
I therefore propose as a counter plan simply eating fish, which we know from several millennia of eating fish to be safe and healthy for most people, instead of consuming cod liver oil tablets.
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can cod liver oil increase our height