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Given the level of pollution in the ocean now you're probably better off avoiding fish anyway unless you want a daily dose of toxic heavy metals and industrial
by cageface 9y ago
Given the level of pollution in the ocean now you're probably better off avoiding fish anyway unless you want a daily dose of toxic heavy metals and industrial chemicals.
There are no essential nutrients in fish you can't easily get from other foods.
- azinman2 9y agoIs that really true? My understanding is that depends heavily on what type of fish it is (where are they in the food chain and how old they are), and isn’t the ocean super gigantic? It’s also not like heavy metals don’t exist in our land-based foods [1] (along with lots of other nasties like antibiotics and pesticides). Further, if it was really so toxic, wouldn’t a population like Japan that has a very seafood heavy diet be suffering massive health issues? [1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/11347908/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/11347908/
- cageface 9y agoThere are definitely tradeoffs, but you can get all the benefits of eating fish from safer sources: https://nutritionfacts.org/video/mercury-vs-omega-3s-for-brain-development/ https://nutritionfacts.org/video/mercury-vs-omega-3s-for-bra... https://nutritionfacts.org/video/fish-and-diabetes/ https://nutritionfacts.org/video/fish-and-diabetes/ https://nutritionfacts.org/video/ciguatera-poisoning-chronic-fatigue-syndrome/ https://nutritionfacts.org/video/ciguatera-poisoning-chronic...
- contingencies 9y agowouldn’t a population like Japan that has a very seafood heavy diet be suffering massive health issues? Oh you mean like massive suicide, youth exodus, xenophobia, plummeting economic output, aging population, negative population growth due to social issues? You don't need a personal mental diagnosis to know which way the wind blows for a society, and for Japan it's out to sea.