Grandma Used Cod Liver Oil – Why You Should Too

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What do you think of when you think of cod liver oil? Images of kids scurrying and hiding in all parts of the house? Mother with a stern look on her face holding out a spoon to a kid with a screwed-up disgusted expression? Most of us have no personal experience with cod liver oil prior to beginning a real foods diet. Our knowledge of cod liver oil comes from cartoons and old movies and, if we are older, stories from our parents childhoods. But cod liver oil was a part of daily life prior to the fifties. It is another part of our food heritage that is disappearing down the memory hole. My parents were given cod liver oil daily by my grandmothers until they were teenagers. Most families with the money to afford it gave cod liver oil to the children of the house. It was a universally

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