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The eggs will seem shapeless and gummy or oily and filmed with a whitish glaze.
The health benefits or hazards associated with fish consumption will require added attention to origin of fish - marine or fresh water - given the reported differences in stores of polyunsaturated fatty acids and N-3 fatty acid between the two types of fish [ 44 45 46 47 ] . Levels of N-3 fatty acids vary by fish species, oil content of fish, sex and age of fish, and factors exogenous to fish such as water temperature [ 47 48 ] . Oily fish from cold waters (whether marine or fresh bodies of water) are reported to have higher levels of N-3 fatty acids in comparison to fish from warmer bodies [ 45 47 ] . The ratio of N-3 to N-6 fatty acids has recently been suggested as being associated with gestation and birth weight [ 49 ] and this ratio is approximately four-times greater in marine fish in comparison to fresh water fish [ 45 ] . Type and species-specific fish consumption will remain important considerations in assessing exposure scenarios based on fish consumption.
As to mutton bird, tastes vary: it may have required as W.H. Leigh wrote in 1839 a desperate stomach to attack such an oily mass, but Ralph Clarke in 1790 lovingly packed a box for his beloved woman, Containing a Mount Pit Bird, A Mutton Bird.
This film is "about the upsizing of Michael Moore," who is guilty of "oily smugness and sublime narcissism" (Stephen Hunter, the Washington Post ).
(Watch carefully and you can actually see him exuding contempt, like the oily haze that rises off airplane engines on a hot day.)
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