We Should Be Eating More Canned Fish?
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We Should Be Eating More Canned Fish?
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#2I’m very worried about heavy metals, plastics, and chemicals too much to eat any seafood.
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#3While I completely agree. I think the author could have made a much stronger argument. And whenever I try canned fish from Europe, it's far better than the American brand.
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#4I’m very worried about heavy metals, plastics, and chemicals too much to eat any seafood.
The balance of the evidence indicates that the health benefits of fish consumption, particularly omega-3 fats, far outweighs those concerns.
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#5In Norway, sandwiches with a spread of mackerel in tomato sauce is a breakfast/lunch staple
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#6I’m very worried about heavy metals, plastics, and chemicals too much to eat any seafood.
The balance of the evidence indicates that the health benefits of fish consumption, particularly omega-3 fats, far outweighs those concerns.
I hate to be one of those people demanding sources, but I'm wondering where I can find someone who's carefully weighed the evidence.
The article does mention that smaller fish often found canned are lower in the food chain and thus have less mercury, but I would think that you'd have to look carefully at each species, and the sourcing, and the packaging before you could really say the health benefits are worth it.
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#7I’m very worried about heavy metals, plastics, and chemicals too much to eat any seafood.
The balance of the evidence indicates that the health benefits of fish consumption, particularly omega-3 fats, far outweighs those concerns.
It's not boolean.
There's a lot of options -- salmon (I personally have salmon sushi at least twice a week), omega-3 supplements, a dozen other healthy foods.
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#8I’m very worried about heavy metals, plastics, and chemicals too much to eat any seafood.
Many varieties of tinned fish are very low in mercury, often due to their short lifetimes or shallow depth: https://www.consumerreports.org/cro/magazine/2014/10/can-eat...
(For any readers who haven’t tried a great sardine, look for Matiz, La Gondola, any Portuguese brand, or in France, Rödel.)
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#9In Norway, sandwiches with a spread of mackerel in tomato sauce is a breakfast/lunch staple
I recently discovered this and cannot get enough of it. I'm trying to find a good place to purchase it (at a reasonable price) in the USA though. Damn tasty!
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#10I’m very worried about heavy metals, plastics, and chemicals too much to eat any seafood.
The balance of the evidence indicates that the health benefits of fish consumption, particularly omega-3 fats, far outweighs those concerns.
My understanding is, that while fish consumption is correlated with better health, the supposed effects of omega-3 fats in observational studies are not proven in controlled studies with omega 3 supplements (https://www.cochrane.org/news/new-cochrane-health-evidence-c...)