Scientists Call for Worldwide Warning: Be Wary of Eating Fish

re: Scientists Call for Worldwide Warning: Be Wary of Eating Fish

remobec_203 — Sat, 24 Mar 2007 17:08:55 GMT

I have often wondered if raising your own fish would solve this problem. I know that raising your own meat, milk, etc. is much healthier.

I don't have the property to do it right now, but maybe one day I'd put a pond or lake on property and put some fish in it.

If I knew exactly what was going into my pond, would the fishies still be dangerous to eat?

Odd question: Dr. Mercola said at one point that cilantro acts as a "mercury-magnet." Has anyone ever tried supplementing fish with cilantro?

re: Scientists Call for Worldwide Warning: Be Wary of Eating Fish

Aleahsa — Sat, 24 Mar 2007 15:11:19 GMT

RE - WARNING ON EATING FISH DUE TO MERCURY POISONING....... YOU ARE ADVOCATING REPLACING THE ACTUAL EATING OF FISH WITH TAKING SUPPLEMENTS TO GET OUT OMEGA 3 AND OMEGA 6....BUT....IF ALL FISH ARE NOW HIGHLY CONTAMINATED WITH MERCURY THEN WOULDN'T THE SUPPLEMENTAL OMEGA 3 AND 6, EVEN FROM KRILL ALSO BE CONTAMINATED ? AFTER ALL THE FISH OIL IN THE SUPPLEMENT WHETHER FROM KRILL OR ANY FISH, IS STILL SUPPOSEDLY COMING FROM CONTAMINATED FISH ?
HOW DO CAN YOU SAY TO AVOID FISH, AND THEN IN ANOTHER BREATH SAY THAT WE SHOULD TAKE FISH OIL SUPPLEMENTS FROM KRILL ?

re: Scientists Call for Worldwide Warning: Be Wary of Eating Fish

Amanda Rose — Sat, 10 Mar 2007 05:53:16 GMT

This is terrible news. I love sushi too and, of course, we need Omega-3s.

Rob - I am a big supporter of grass fed beef and wild meat, but they are not the Omega-3 solution (except perhaps if we have lived a very healthy diet of wild game and low Omega-6s). There is something like 100 milligrams of Omega-3 fatty acids in 100 grams of grass fed beef, compared to something on the order of 2 grams (or more) in 100 grams of salmon.

Actually, even farmed salmon is a good source of Omega-3s but wild salmon has a higher level of Omega-3s, lower level of Omega-6s, and a lower toxic load. This is the case with wild fish in general.

Three years ago this month I moved to the mountains in an isolated area with air and water that are relatively clean. But with toxins “falling from the sky,” there is no place to hide. It’s all a matter of reducing our risks at this point.

Amanda

re: Scientists Call for Worldwide Warning: Be Wary of Eating Fish

RobC — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 07:59:29 GMT

What is so great about fish? Just the oils? Now that it is fairly well known that grass fed animals have more omega 3 oils than fish, we should be pushing for grass fed meats, and related eggs and milk. Grass has high omega 3s. And farm raised fish have no omega 3 unless they add it to the food. Farm raised is very inferior to wild.

re: Scientists Call for Worldwide Warning: Be Wary of Eating Fish

Russ Bianchi — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 00:31:47 GMT

Autism, (beside oxidative stress, triggering predisposition to inherited/triggered disease like cancers, tumors, health aberrations) is/are a direct result of exposure to such heavy metal toxicity.

Significantly reduce or eliminate such exposure, & health is improved.

The EPA has done much empirical work on the subject, & there are several actuarial studies (in the confines of insurance life expectancy research) also linking proximity to major freeways, petro chemical/oil refineries & wind currents from them, turnpikes, & automotive or rail thoroughfares, with ADVERSE, and high levels, of air borne heavy metal exposure.

Just like in olden times (Europe a few centuries ago) the nearer one was to a river, estuary, or body of water, the propensity to disease (like cholera, malaria, polio, bubonic plague from fleas on rodents near dock, etc.) today's DANGEROUS real estate on land is indeed around the exhaust (benzene, and a host of silicates and carbonates and heavy metals) spued from internal combustion engines or factories.

Sadly, we now see a further degradation in the oceans & their fisheries, which Jacque Cousteau & others were sounding the alarm bells on at least 30 years ago.

Our global fisheries are way over stressed, polluted & essentially will be
extinct in very short order (less than one generation by most reasonable estimates).

We reap what we sow, or in this case, we catch what we pollute & then gill net.

If the oceans of the world are to be saved, non conforming countries raping them, like Japan, as well as all other major fishing fleets in the world, must be mothballed for at least one or two full decades now, & massive policing be enforced on abusers with their boats or ships sunk on sight for ANY INFRACTIONS.

We all owe it to what Carl Sagan coined: "A Pale Blue Dot."

re: Scientists Call for Worldwide Warning: Be Wary of Eating Fish

rfanshier — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 22:58:19 GMT

I am saddened by this as well. Although I stopped eating fish long ago because they way most fish are caught is very damaging to the environment. Also my husband never liked the taste of fish. Therefore I have known of a couple of different ways to get some of those same nutrients as found in fish. the first is Flax seed. It is high in Omega-3 fatty acids, which are also a natural Cholesterol reducer. I also work with a company that has an Omega-3 fatty acid supplement.
I know if you like eating fish this will not replace the flavor for you, but it is a way to get those healthy nutrients.

re: Scientists Call for Worldwide Warning: Be Wary of Eating Fish

seaweed — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 19:16:09 GMT

As a sushi and seafood lover, this is frustrating to say the least. More and more of our food supply is contaminated. Our descendants will probably not have any clean food left if we continue to pollute the environment at the current rate.

I have cut down on some of the high mercury content fish and at the same time supplementing with mercury dextoxifier such as chlorella (Mercola's site), selenium (i read it binds to mercury and flush out the system, need to verify this), kombucha tea, and general periodic detox plan(juice fast).

re: Scientists Call for Worldwide Warning: Be Wary of Eating Fish

Kumba — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 19:00:49 GMT

Most of us who have been aware of food related health issues are aware to some degree of the mercury in fish. It is incredibly saddening to me, because as you state in the article, fish should be the one food that is very healthy for us, but because of pollution it is now extremely unhealthy. And so I wonder, as we look around at what is good for us to eat and what isn't, do people just finally give up trying? It seems there are no government agencies trustworthy, so you have to question their stamp of approval on items... or well, at least I do.
Kumba