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Goes to show how important culture and religion can be in diet. Eating seafood instead of meat once a week, usually on Friday, is a widespread Christian practic
by gillesjacobs 6y ago
Goes to show how important culture and religion can be in diet. Eating seafood instead of meat once a week, usually on Friday, is a widespread Christian practice called the Friday Fast. [1]
In Europe, I know a lot of people that still stick to this practice even without practicing Christianity.
1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friday_Fast https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friday_Fast
- lhjn 6y agoOh, there was some people following the Friday thing, but I've only heard about it during lent and not everyone is following it - it's quite going out of fashion esp with younger generations.
- mensetmanusman 6y agoYounger people make up a smaller and smaller percentage of the total population every year though. Ironically though, the young that do practice Friday fasting are much more likely, demographically, to have children. So I imagine the practice will continue for many centuries.
- H1Supreme 6y ago> but I've only heard about it during lent And even then, it's usually breaded and deep fried. Not sure, I'd qualify it as a healthy alternative to a steak.
- CraneWorm 6y ago> seafood instead of meat most of that's still meat though?
- refactor_master 6y agoAccording to science it should be better than red meat. Additionally, a lot of seafood comes in smaller portions, is full of bones, shells and whatnot, whereas it’s relatively easy and cheap to get large quantities of fully edible red meat. It’s not that you couldn’t have a pound of peeled shrimps, but my own experience with seafood says it’s not very common. So overall you’re most likely ending up eating less meat, and not just different meat.
- nradov 6y agoBetter how? What science? Do you have a citation? Most comparative diet studies are only observational with multiple confounding factors and no proper controls.
- refactor_master 6y agoE.g. https://www.nhs.uk/live-well/eat-well/red-meat-and-the-risk-of-bowel-cancer/ https://www.nhs.uk/live-well/eat-well/red-meat-and-the-risk-... and https://progressreport.cancer.gov/prevention/red_meat https://progressreport.cancer.gov/prevention/red_meat I’m not going to single out studies and pretend that I’m in any way into this field.
- mensetmanusman 6y agoFish have lots of selenium that meat lacks.
- nradov 6y agoFish can also have lots of mercury that meat lacks. It's probably best to eat a variety of different foods in order to avoid excess toxins and nutrient deficiencies.
- mensetmanusman 6y agoThere’s some interesting research suggesting that mercury poisoning is in fact just pulling out the availability of selenium for bio chemistry by forming metal ion complexes https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18761370/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18761370/
- gillesjacobs 6y agoThe wikipedia page states more correctly: "animal meat, other than fish".