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While 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.
I’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.)
I’m very worried about heavy metals, plastics, and chemicals too much to eat any seafood.
Seafood is very healthy, the populations that eat a lot of seafood are very healthy, the stories about heavy metals or plastics are blown out of proportion and the toxicity claims is not supported by evidence.
I'm actually far more concerned about the preservation of wild life, with wild fish populations (such as tuna) going down due to over-consumption. I actually seek farmed fish — the omega 3 content might be lower, but the benefits of omega 3 are probably overblown too.
So there might actually be some benefits to the fearmongering, even if irrational ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I’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.
Take oil sardines with the starry eyes. Am I supposed to eat the sardine whole, with head, eyes and tailfin? Am I supposed to bite the head off and spit it out? Cut it off?
It's so basic and I feel like an idiot, but I really have no idea.
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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.
The author goes into lot of detail.
TLDR 1. Eat small fish like Sardines, Mackerel, Anchovies etc
2. Get your omega 3 index
3. Make sure your omega 3 to omega 6 is good
„The vast majority of tuna stocks are healthy and abundant“? I am highly skeptical of that claim. Does anybody have any up-to-date, global numbers?
Commercial fishing is not good. Do some research to find the many reasons.
Plastic is not something you want to eat, and fish have increasing amounts of plastic in them.
Same goes for Mercury. Sardines (and probably anchovies) don't have much, but other larger fish do.
Were it not for these problems, then I too would advocate good canned sardines for health. They have higher calcium per weight than any other food or drink. They have a good amount of protein, and of course they have the omega oils.
But the current state of things is such that it would be wise to reduce consumption, not increase it.
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The balance of the evidence indicates that the health benefits of fish consumption, particularly omega-3 fats, far outweighs those concerns.
Walnuts apparently have more omega-3 content (by weight) than fish.