Is Consuming Fish Really Safe for Pregnant Women and Their Unborn Children?

re: Is Consuming Fish Really Safe for Pregnant Women and Their Unborn Children?

Devon McCloskey — Sun, 25 Feb 2007 19:02:06 GMT

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There is a new fish company that is doing everything right. I love the stuff...it tasts awesome and it has no mercury (they have tested100 times LOWER than the FDA approved amount and still there is no detectable mercury)....Also a highier omega content b/c of the quality natural food they feed it. The fish is expensive but I guess that is what we get for trashing out enviroment and than expecting clean nurtirtion :(
Some whole foods are now carrying it....but ask b/c the more people that ask for it the more likely they will begin to carry it:)
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re: Is Consuming Fish Really Safe for Pregnant Women and Their Unborn Children?

gms — Sun, 18 Feb 2007 22:56:01 GMT

I was born and raised in the U.S. Twenty years ago at 21, I wasn't interested in a healthy lifestyle & was pregnant with my first daughter. I ate a tuna fish sandwich with extra mayo almost every day for lunch, I ate two huge donuts and drank two pints of milk for breakfast every weekday morning, I smoked a pack of cigs every day, and once during my first trimester I got incredibly drunk and was hungover for two days. However, I took my prenatal vitamins faithfully every day. My daughter was born 10 days early, was 6 lbs. 7 oz., had all her fingers & toes, had severe colic for two months, was thin and still is-but not overly so. She sat at 4 mos. crawled at 4-1/2 mos, walked at 11 mos, was a very active toddler. Her attention and focus in kindergarten were so poor her teacher was sure she'd have trouble all through school; that scared me. Someone I didn't like very much insisted I take her off sodas and cut her sugar consumption way down. I listened--eventually. No more bouncing off walls. Now, my daughter's 20, in college, went to a blue ribbon high school, knows how to read, write and understand quite a bit of Japanese, has an excellent sense of humor, is kind, compassionate, honest, exercises good judgment--doesn't smoke or drink; is a very logical thinker, skilled/talented artist, and not overly emotional. Moreover, I've never been married. Does the fact that everything turned out well (so far) make me want to keep doing wrong? Well, it's actually given me what I call "plane-crash-survivor syndrome" -- I stand in awe looking around at all the carniage, feeling very small and scared, thanking God we only have a few scratches, and wondering why we're okay and not others...knowing I did nothing to deserve it.

GinaMilan

re: Is Consuming Fish Really Safe for Pregnant Women and Their Unborn Children?

Dr. David Spitz — Sat, 17 Feb 2007 13:11:01 GMT

As with most studies, I doubt the scientists looked or can look at all of the consequences of the women eating fish containing mercury. It's impossible for the toxin not to ultimately have an affect on mother or baby.

I say avoid eating fish frequently, take molecularly distilled fish oil and eat organic grass-fed-beef which is free of mercury & toxins and full of CLA and omega-3 fatty acids.

Unfortunately society has polluted our waters, until nature cleans them out I continue to believe grass fed meat is our best source of omega 3 other than supplementing.

re: Is Consuming Fish Really Safe for Pregnant Women and Their Unborn Children?

Josh Rubin — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 21:06:44 GMT

The things that amaze me the most about MD's, society and pregnant women are this:

For one, they say to stay away from fish, cat poop, etc when you are pregnant. If it is farm raised fish, I agree. The cat poop I agree with at some levels as well.

The interesting thing is that most pregnant women stay away from the above, but they eat soy, microwaved foods, conventional meats, farmed raised fish, use chemical riddled hygien products, eat sugar, gluten containing foods and on and on and on!

As for the cat poop, well that is because of parasites and I understand the caution. But what most do not realize is that you can pick up a parasite from most foods, from walking barefoot, shaking hands, touching a door knob, etc.

Just some thoughts that perplex me in this day and age!

re: Is Consuming Fish Really Safe for Pregnant Women and Their Unborn Children?

mmc88121 — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 20:40:19 GMT

Good article, it does state to stay awayfrom certain types of fish and states the effects are from the Omega 3fatty acids. You still need to watch where the fish comes from due to Mercury being found in the oceans.

mmc88121

re: Is Consuming Fish Really Safe for Pregnant Women and Their Unborn Children?

Russ Bianchi — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 16:58:34 GMT

YES, the good Dr. is correct AGAIN, safe sources of CLA AND DHA ARE IMPERATIVE to a wholesome and safe and happy and healthy and a mentally better infant on delivery.

As one reads horrific headlines of Japan continuing to RAPE the oceans zealously, for their own domestic consumption and profit, and demanding whaling be returned to their wholesale slaughter and right, while the globe's fisheries ARE on the brink of TOTAL COLLAPSE from over fishing, it's time to propose a Jules Verne like Nemo scenario...

For every whale killed, an international team of submarines (presumably mostly US) hunts down and sinks three fishing trawlers, or monster fish processing ships, of that country in violation of international shoreline agreements, and sinks them, after giving fair warning for the crews to abandon ship.

Current international maritime laws are broken, virtually unenforced, and not working, while EVERYONE's Oceans have been turned into open Cess Pools.