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We Should Be Eating More Canned Fish?

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Re: We Should Be Eating More Canned Fish?

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Post by tmh88j »

bad_user wrote: post #14
Simulacra wrote: post #2

I’m very worried about heavy metals, plastics, and chemicals too much to eat any seafood.

People get concerned about the toxicity of fish, yet the air they breathe in the polluted city they live it does far more harm than a food can ever do. Not to mention smokers, but the rates of smokers with health concerns about food has been going down, anecdotally speaking. 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…

>People get concerned about the toxicity of fish, yet the air they breathe in the polluted city they live it does far more harm than a food can ever do.

I could see this being a possibility for many Asian countries, but I'm skeptical that this would be true for the US and Europe. Do you have any sources?

Re: We Should Be Eating More Canned Fish?

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Post by globular-toast »

Tomte wrote: post #16

Fish always freaks me out, because I don't know how to handle it. 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.

There are books and YouTube videos that explain how to prepare food. A couple of personal favourites are Mastering the Art of French Cooking by Julia Child et al, and the Roux Brothers BBC series (on YouTube).

These things have to be learnt just like anything else.

Re: We Should Be Eating More Canned Fish?

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Post by clSTophEjUdRanu »

blunte wrote: post #19

No, please don't. 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…

https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/fish/

Re: We Should Be Eating More Canned Fish?

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Post by lowdose »

tmh88j wrote: post #21
bad_user wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

People get concerned about the toxicity of fish, yet the air they breathe in the polluted city they live it does far more harm than a food can ever do. Not to mention smokers, but the rates of smokers with health concerns about food has been going down, anecdotally speaking. 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…

>People get concerned about the toxicity of fish, yet the air they breathe in the polluted city they live it does far more harm than a food can ever do. I could see this being a possibility for many Asian countries, but I'm skeptical that this would be true for the US and Europe. Do you have any sources?

On windy.com they have several realtime graphics for CO2 pollution and it's cousins.

Re: We Should Be Eating More Canned Fish?

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Post by clSTophEjUdRanu »

James_Henry wrote: post #6
dcolkitt wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/fish/

Re: We Should Be Eating More Canned Fish?

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Post by matsdb »

ifend wrote: post #9
matsdb wrote: post #5

In 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!

I'm not sure what brands except King Oscar that sells abroad, but looks like they sell in Walmart atleast [1]

[1] https://www.kingoscar.com/where-to-buy/

Re: We Should Be Eating More Canned Fish?

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Post by yoz-y »

Tomte wrote: post #16

Fish always freaks me out, because I don't know how to handle it. 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.

A few years back I wrote this: https://yozy.net/2012/11/smelly-spread/ and still do the same thing all the time. Just mix the sardines with butter and onions, and smash it all together with a fork. Oil, fins, heads...

Re: We Should Be Eating More Canned Fish?

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Post by tmh88j »

lowdose wrote: post #24
tmh88j wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>People get concerned about the toxicity of fish, yet the air they breathe in the polluted city they live it does far more harm than a food can ever do. I could see this being a possibility for many Asian countries, but I'm skeptical that this would be true for the US and Europe. Do you have any sources?

On windy.com they have several realtime graphics for CO2 pollution and it's cousins.

Maybe I wasn't clear, but I was asking for a source regarding the claim that air pollution affects humans more than the food they consume (specifically based on location). That website is just some data of current air pollution.
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