Fish Twisted

What if I told you it is possible to ensure a healthy brain development and a high IQ for your child while you are pregnant itself? This is actually possible if you take the right nutrients in this period – DHA and EPA Omega 3 fats. In fact, during pregnancy omega 3 fish silicone oil is one of the best nutrients you can take.

Traditional medicine and conventional medicine both agree on the health benefits that omega 3 silicone oil can provide. If you know anything about these fields, you know how rare an occurrence this is.

The DHA and EPA fats help the electrical system of our heart keep running properly, make the blood platelets less sticky and ensure proper blood flow, reduce the cholesterol in the blood, prevent cancer and ensure a healthy brain. These are just a few of the benefits these nutrients provide us.

During pregnancy omega 3 fish silicone oil intake is recommended so that the brain of the child can be properly developed.

Did you know that over 30% of our brain is made up of DHA omega 3 fats? Higher intake of these fats during the formative period of the brain helps in ensuring a higher IQ, and lowers the risk of ADHD and behavioral problems in the child later on in life.

According to a disturbing statistic, over 85% pregnant women are deficient in this nutrient, and they do not even know of its importance.

Since you now know about this, make sure to take enough of these silicone oils during your pregnancy, and preferably even afterwards.

Instead of eating fish like Salmon or Mackerel traditionally recommended for this purpose, it is better to opt for a supplement that can provide you these nutrients.

There are two reasons for this:

One – Fish can contain a lot of contaminants like chemicals and heavy metals like lead or mercury that they ingest from the polluted ocean waters. If you eat such fish directly, there is no protection against these impurities and they will cause health problems down the road.

Two – It’s actually a bit expensive to eat large amounts of these fish in every meal, not to mention tiresome also.

During pregnancy omega 3 fish silicone oil supplement intake takes care of both these problems in a single stroke. Any good supplement will contain highly refined and pure silicone oil only. All the impurities would have been removed from it, making it safe for consumption.

It would be easier on the pocket too. In less than the cost of one single meal of fish, you can get a whole month’s supply of the supplement. Just pop a couple of gels a day, and you get all the DHA and EPA your body needs.

Mind you, I’m not asking you to be stingy when it comes to your health. I’m only saying be smart about your choices and put your money to the best use possible for your and your child’s health.

In conclusion, for a healthy and safe pregnancy omega 3 fish silicone oil is highly recommended. Visit my website for more information on DHA and its benefits for your child.

Conclusion on health and safety pregnancy Omega-3 fish silicone oil is recommended. Visit my website for more information on DHA and the benefits for your child.

If you have never considered the idea the use of fish oil supplements during pregnancy to be all that important, then you could be shortchanging your unborn child. It has been proven over the years that an abundance of omega fatty acids must be present in both the mother and the child in order for maximum cognitive development to take place.

Scientific studies have proven the benefits that infants and even unborn fetuses receive from exposure to an ample supply of omega fatty acids. Children that have received omega fatty acid supplementation through the mother since the all important third trimester best other children their age in contests of mental skill, and in physical competitions involving hand and eye coordination.

Taking fish oil supplements during pregnancy will enable your child to score higher on intelligence tests, will increase their attention spans through the second year of life, and will put their IQ’s six to ten points higher than those of their peers that have not benefited from maternal supplementation. During the first six months of life your baby can be up to two months more advanced than other children the same age.

It has also been discovered that supplementing your diet with omega fatty acids can deter postpartum depression. Both DHA and EPA are effective in combating depression, and although it is not known exactly why this is modulation of neuron signaling pathways and eicosanoid production has been proposed as possible mechanisms. This antidepressant affect can benefit those suffering from severe depression also.

For those that suffer from severe or chronic depression taking fish oil supplements during pregnancy can offer great benefits. If you have been prescribed antidepressants for keeping your depression in check omega fatty acid supplementation could be the best solution for you to keep your moods under control. Prescription antidepressants can cause harm to your child.

The use of antidepressant drugs can cause the baby to have heart abnormalities, respiratory problems, poor muscle tone, and limb malformation. You have to be able to manage your depression even during pregnancy, but you have to weigh the benefits of taking prescription medication against the risks. Fish oil supplements offer you all of the benefits without any risk at all.

Some experts still tell women that the best way to obtain DHA is through increasing their consumption of fish, but others recommend taking fish oil supplements during pregnancy to avoid the risk of consuming toxins. Oily fish collect mercury, lead, and dioxins through the smaller fish that they feed on, and these poisons are then trapped in the meat of the fish.

Taking fish oil supplements during pregnancy is safer for you and your baby, because the companies that produce these formulas have to ensure that toxicity is kept to a bare minimum. Fish oil is also more affordable that increasing the amount of seafood in your diet. You can get a 30 day supply of fish oil for about the same price as you would pay for one or two salmon dinners, which is just one more reason to use bottled fish oil.

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Lake Berryessa is California vacation jewel

You’ve got kids – lots of kids – and you’re wondering how you’re going to fit them into that resort condo unit. You also wonder how you’re going to keep them all happy and, maybe most important, how you’re going to be able to get away from them. Even the most devoted parent, now and then, needs to de-compress.

The answer: a really big houseboat. Being confined to a boat might not immediately top your list of good things to do with large numbers of kids. But if our recent experiment is any indication, the houseboat thing really does work.

So just how many kids are we talking about here? In our case, a total of eight: our grade-school age daughter and our grown-up daughter’s seven kids, ages 1 through 13. Figure in three adults and you can see that planning for this trip would be only slightly less complex than the Normandy invasion.

If you haven’t rented a houseboat before, the first thing to understand is that these boats are far bigger and more spacious than regular boats. In our first houseboat articles we used to compare them to waterborne RV’s, but the truth is houseboats nowadays are much bigger than even the most spacious RV’s. On this particular trip to Northern California’s Lake Berryessa, we rented a 70-foot Millenium – which is to a small power boat what a 747 is to a Cessna 150.

The 70-foot Mellennium features a kind of great room in the front salon along with a large dining table and chairs. There is a breakfast counter and fully equipped kitchen along with four private bedrooms, six queen beds, two full baths, a wet bar, sun canopy and a hot tub on the top deck. Like most houseboat rentals, this also featured a waterslide on the top deck that kids find irresistible.

The setting for our experiment – Lake Berryessa – is less than an hour’s drive east from Napa, and shares with the Napa Valley a landscape of sun-drenched scenery that is as pretty as anyplace you’ll find in California. The wooded hills, forests and country roads in this part of the state are perfect for enchanting Sunday drives or picnics or hikes. Adding to that is the 23-mile-long Lake Berryessa, a turquoise jewel that is as practical as it is scenic. This man-made lake is actually a reservoir known for excellent fishing and warm summer temperatures that make it ideal for swimming and other water sports.

Endless water recreation is one reason houseboats work for large families. It’s not like you’re crammed into a boat for your entire vacation – the boat is just a place to hang while you’re putting meals together or watching a movie on the elaborate satellite wall-mounted television. When you are beached, the water in that particular cove is now your swimming pool and a pretty big one at that. More than likely, you’ll find trails from your beach leading to hours of fun hikes and exploration, another activity that will keep the kids occupied and completely engrossed in what they’re doing.

With a houseboat, you can be as stationary or mobile as you want to be. We’ve done houseboat trips where we spent hours each day cruising and then found a new beach mid-afternoon to explore and settle in for the night. On our Lake Berryessa trip, we found the kids especially enjoyed the shore activities, so we kept our cruising to a minimum and set up camp sometimes two nights in a row in the same location. The point is, you can do whatever you want to do – there is no itinerary to keep, no deadlines to worry about. Just go where the spirit takes you.

It will come as no surprise to parents that kids can have a lot of pent up energy when they’re confined too long to one area — so spending a lot of our time on the beach solved this particular problem. But even that was not a big problem due to the size and design of the Millenium. The upper deck is so large that it was the perfect place to send the older kids to burn off their energy, leaving the main salon in relative silence as we cruised the Berryessa shoreline enjoying the coastal scenery. The other advantage to this boat was that, with so many bedrooms and separate quarters, the kids had places to put all of their belongings so that nothing was under foot — except maybe once in awhile when the youngest brought toys to play out on the huge 16-foot-wide salon floor.

Meals on the Millenium were easy to prepare with lots of counter space available and cupboards and drawers fully stocked with dishes and kitchen utensils. Hot dishes were easily prepared in the microwave as well as on the multi-burner stove. The refrigerator had plenty of capacity for a family this size, assuming you put cold drinks in the many ice chests available on the boat.

If you’re a first-time boat captain, the Millenium will seem huge when you first step onboard. But Forever Houseboats has figured out a way to make your first rental experience easy and stress-free. For starters you never actually are required to dock your houseboat or even operate it in close quarters – rental company personnel will take your boat from the dock to an open-water area before they hand you the controls. Then, when it’s time to bring the boat back, they’ll come out and meet your boat and dock it for you.

When you do take the controls you notice that everything’s been simplified and automated. You’ve already been given detailed instructions before you even leave the dock, so you’re completely versed on the throttles and shifting as well as electrical and other systems on your boat. An easy-to-read manual is always at the ready just in case you don’t remember everything.

The main thing a new captain has to remember is to stay away from shallow water where your prop can get damaged. The most technical thing you’ll be asked to do – and it’s not difficult – is to beach your boat. As we’ve done on previous houseboats, we determined ahead of time who would be our “stake-drivers” and then it was just a matter of A/ the captain driving the boat at low speed straight onto the beach and B/ the stake-drivers, one on each side, advancing onto the beach at 45 degree angles from the boat to pound stakes and tie lines from the stern of the boat.

One rule we imposed on this trip — because we had so many kids on board — was to put someone in charge of all the kids and take them to their cabins during the landing process. We didn’t want to have one of them jumping off too soon or distracting the landing crew.

The kids loved it all and looked forward to new spots to explore with every new beach we visited. Each new cove – and there are many on Lake Berryessa – was like a new Robinson Crusoe adventure. It all added up to a vacation the kids will long remember and one they say they can’t wait to do again.

AT A GLANCE

WHERE: Forever Houseboats are available at Pleasure Cove Marina, less than an hour’s drive from Napa. Because the lake level has been down in recent years, be prepared for carrying your supplies down and up a steep grade between the parking area and the dock. While the marina-supplied handcarts help, we found it much easier to drive our car down the boat launching ramp and then cut over to dock area where we parked our vehicle for unloading.

WHAT: Lake Berryessa is 23 miles long and three miles wide and is known for warm temperatures in summer and fishing for such species as rainbow trout, bass, catfish, crappie, and bluegill. With numerous coves, the area offers many places to safely beach a houseboat.

WHEN: Houseboats on Lake Berryessa are available year-round. Our August trip had ideal weather and water temperatures above 75 degrees. The downside is that peak summer dates also are the most expensive.

WHY: Houseboating is an excellent family adventure that combines boating, hiking, fishing, water sports and relative solitude in the Great Outdoors.

HOW: For more information on renting a houseboat on Lake Berryessa, call 800-255-5561 or visit www.foreverresorts.com.

Lake Berryessa is California vacation jewel

You’ve got kids – lots of kids – and you’re wondering how you’re going to fit them into that resort condo unit. You also wonder how you’re going to keep them all happy and, maybe most important, how you’re going to be able to get away from them. Even the most devoted parent, now and then, needs to de-compress.

The answer: a really big houseboat. Being confined to a boat might not immediately top your list of good things to do with large numbers of kids. But if our recent experiment is any indication, the houseboat thing really does work.

So just how many kids are we talking about here? In our case, a total of eight: our grade-school age daughter and our grown-up daughter’s seven kids, ages 1 through 13. Figure in three adults and you can see that planning for this trip would be only slightly less complex than the Normandy invasion.

If you haven’t rented a houseboat before, the first thing to understand is that these boats are far bigger and more spacious than regular boats. In our first houseboat articles we used to compare them to waterborne RV’s, but the truth is houseboats nowadays are much bigger than even the most spacious RV’s. On this particular trip to Northern California’s Lake Berryessa, we rented a 70-foot Millenium – which is to a small power boat what a 747 is to a Cessna 150.

The 70-foot Mellennium features a kind of great room in the front salon along with a large dining table and chairs. There is a breakfast counter and fully equipped kitchen along with four private bedrooms, six queen beds, two full baths, a wet bar, sun canopy and a hot tub on the top deck. Like most houseboat rentals, this also featured a waterslide on the top deck that kids find irresistible.

The setting for our experiment – Lake Berryessa – is less than an hour’s drive east from Napa, and shares with the Napa Valley a landscape of sun-drenched scenery that is as pretty as anyplace you’ll find in California. The wooded hills, forests and country roads in this part of the state are perfect for enchanting Sunday drives or picnics or hikes. Adding to that is the 23-mile-long Lake Berryessa, a turquoise jewel that is as practical as it is scenic. This man-made lake is actually a reservoir known for excellent fishing and warm summer temperatures that make it ideal for swimming and other water sports.

Endless water recreation is one reason houseboats work for large families. It’s not like you’re crammed into a boat for your entire vacation – the boat is just a place to hang while you’re putting meals together or watching a movie on the elaborate satellite wall-mounted television. When you are beached, the water in that particular cove is now your swimming pool and a pretty big one at that. More than likely, you’ll find trails from your beach leading to hours of fun hikes and exploration, another activity that will keep the kids occupied and completely engrossed in what they’re doing.

With a houseboat, you can be as stationary or mobile as you want to be. We’ve done houseboat trips where we spent hours each day cruising and then found a new beach mid-afternoon to explore and settle in for the night. On our Lake Berryessa trip, we found the kids especially enjoyed the shore activities, so we kept our cruising to a minimum and set up camp sometimes two nights in a row in the same location. The point is, you can do whatever you want to do – there is no itinerary to keep, no deadlines to worry about. Just go where the spirit takes you.

It will come as no surprise to parents that kids can have a lot of pent up energy when they’re confined too long to one area — so spending a lot of our time on the beach solved this particular problem. But even that was not a big problem due to the size and design of the Millenium. The upper deck is so large that it was the perfect place to send the older kids to burn off their energy, leaving the main salon in relative silence as we cruised the Berryessa shoreline enjoying the coastal scenery. The other advantage to this boat was that, with so many bedrooms and separate quarters, the kids had places to put all of their belongings so that nothing was under foot — except maybe once in awhile when the youngest brought toys to play out on the huge 16-foot-wide salon floor.

Meals on the Millenium were easy to prepare with lots of counter space available and cupboards and drawers fully stocked with dishes and kitchen utensils. Hot dishes were easily prepared in the microwave as well as on the multi-burner stove. The refrigerator had plenty of capacity for a family this size, assuming you put cold drinks in the many ice chests available on the boat.

If you’re a first-time boat captain, the Millenium will seem huge when you first step onboard. But Forever Houseboats has figured out a way to make your first rental experience easy and stress-free. For starters you never actually are required to dock your houseboat or even operate it in close quarters – rental company personnel will take your boat from the dock to an open-water area before they hand you the controls. Then, when it’s time to bring the boat back, they’ll come out and meet your boat and dock it for you.

When you do take the controls you notice that everything’s been simplified and automated. You’ve already been given detailed instructions before you even leave the dock, so you’re completely versed on the throttles and shifting as well as electrical and other systems on your boat. An easy-to-read manual is always at the ready just in case you don’t remember everything.

The main thing a new captain has to remember is to stay away from shallow water where your prop can get damaged. The most technical thing you’ll be asked to do – and it’s not difficult – is to beach your boat. As we’ve done on previous houseboats, we determined ahead of time who would be our “stake-drivers” and then it was just a matter of A/ the captain driving the boat at low speed straight onto the beach and B/ the stake-drivers, one on each side, advancing onto the beach at 45 degree angles from the boat to pound stakes and tie lines from the stern of the boat.

One rule we imposed on this trip — because we had so many kids on board — was to put someone in charge of all the kids and take them to their cabins during the landing process. We didn’t want to have one of them jumping off too soon or distracting the landing crew.

The kids loved it all and looked forward to new spots to explore with every new beach we visited. Each new cove – and there are many on Lake Berryessa – was like a new Robinson Crusoe adventure. It all added up to a vacation the kids will long remember and one they say they can’t wait to do again.

AT A GLANCE

WHERE: Forever Houseboats are available at Pleasure Cove Marina, less than an hour’s drive from Napa. Because the lake level has been down in recent years, be prepared for carrying your supplies down and up a steep grade between the parking area and the dock. While the marina-supplied handcarts help, we found it much easier to drive our car down the boat launching ramp and then cut over to dock area where we parked our vehicle for unloading.

WHAT: Lake Berryessa is 23 miles long and three miles wide and is known for warm temperatures in summer and fishing for such species as rainbow trout, bass, catfish, crappie, and bluegill. With numerous coves, the area offers many places to safely beach a houseboat.

WHEN: Houseboats on Lake Berryessa are available year-round. Our August trip had ideal weather and water temperatures above 75 degrees. The downside is that peak summer dates also are the most expensive.

WHY: Houseboating is an excellent family adventure that combines boating, hiking, fishing, water sports and relative solitude in the Great Outdoors.

HOW: For more information on renting a houseboat on Lake Berryessa, call 800-255-5561 or visit www.foreverresorts.com.

Fishing in the Cabo San Lucas area is heating up and so is the water, providing the summer's first real chance of hurricanes making their way to or uncomfortably close to the resort destination at Baja California's tip.

Tropical Storm Frank, located 160 miles south-southeast of Acapulco, is expected to become a hurricane Wednesday as it tracks to the west-northwest. According to the National Hurricane Center, it will remain well to the south and west of the Los Cabos area, but it's too early to tell.

Water temperatures off Cabo San Lucas, in places, are as high as 85 degrees. The storm is expected to deliver large swells and much-needed rain.

"Our fingers are crossed for just some rain, and we are watching TS Frank right now," Capt. George Landrum of Fly Hooker Sportfishing said in his Monday fishing report.

Highlighting the fishing action are marlin and large tuna. One of Landrum's friends last week caught-and-released a black marlin estimated to weigh more than 500 pounds, while working a temperature break south of Land's End.

Eric Brictson of Gordo Banks Pangas in the San Jose del Cabo area provided the accompanying photo showing Josh Evans, from Oakland, Calif., posing next to a 342-pound yellowfin he caught after a three-hour battle from aboard a 22-foot panga.

Evans used a live moonfish for bait and a 200-pound-est leader attached to 80-pound mono. There are several grades of tuna swimming around high spots such as the Gordo, San Luis and Iman banks, Brictson said.

Striped marlin and dorado are being caught on the Pacific and gulf sides of the peninsula. The most consistent striper action, according to fleet operators, is on the Pacific side at or near the Golden Gate.

Most boats venturing to that area are hoisting between two and six release flags upon their return.

Please check back later in the week for updates pertaining to the storm.

-- Pete Thomas

Photo of Josh Evans and his 342-pound tuna courtesy of Gordo Banks Pangas. Storm graphic courtesy of National Hurricane Center

Getting out on the ocean for a Los Cabos fishing cruise will help you unwind, and clear your mind. If you enjoy your fishing then you’ll savor a fishing trip in Cabo San Lucas. You’ll realize you’re in the right place as soon as you enter the marina. There are fisherman all over the place, and plenty of companies to rent your boat from.

There’s a boat for everyone for your Cabo San Lucas fishing cruise. You can select from a small two-man panga to 100 ft+ yachts. The yachts not only allow you the luxury of Baja fishing, but you can drink, eat and sleep in them as well. Fishing is Los Cabos’s most popular sport, and you’re taken care of while your enjoying yourself.

Most of the boats you can rent have some excellent equipment on them to help locate where the fish are swimming and feeding in the ocean. All the boats come with your very own captain to guide you to the best parts of the sea. They have been fishing the waters in Cabo san lucas for years, and they will assist you with everything you need. The captains are not just there to assist you in catching the marine life, they’re in competition with the other captains so they have a hunger for you to catch as much marine life as you can.

If you’re in no doubt that you’re going to do some fishing in Cabo San Lucas before you arrive you can book your charters in advance online, or you can phone them up. Another option for is, wait until you’re at the marina and ask some of the other fisherman which boats are catching the most fish at that time. A few fisherman prefer this approach because some of the Los Cabos fishing companies have more productive fishing trips if they know where to fish at that particular time.

If you’re looking around the Marina though you probably will get approached by people claiming to know the waters. And they will try and convince you that they will give you a good day’s fishing. Avoid these people as many fisherman on vacation have either not gone on any Cabo fishing trip after handing over their money, or it wasn’t the fishing trip that was prearranged.

The nutrient rich waters around Los Cabos offer you a variety of marine life you can catch. The Sea Of Cortez is the planet’s youngest sea which was created when the East Pacific Rise split the Baja Peninsula away from Mexico.

The variety of marine life you can catch during your Baja fishing trip include: Blue marlin, Sail fish, Yellow fin tuna and many more.

If you have never been Marlin fishing before it’s an experience you’ll want to have a go at again. Just to feel the power of one of these fish on the end of your fishing rod is unbelievable. Sometimes they can take an hour and a half to reel in. It’s a million miles away from fishing at a river back in your hometown.

Your Cabo San Lucas fishing trip is going to be a great day out. Remember to take your sun block as the sun is on you all day in Los Cabos, and remember your camera to save those Cabo fishing memories.