Eating Fish May Actually Cause Diabetes

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annacpalmer — Wed, 16 May 2007 12:36:38 GMT

please help me to understand how ingesting fish oils from polluted fish is any safer than eating the actual fish, since the pesticides are stored in fat? thanks.

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sucram — Fri, 04 May 2007 09:53:32 GMT

I like sushi, whats my safest bet to eat sushi and avoid contamination?

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saynotoquacks — Tue, 01 May 2007 21:51:21 GMT

Jimi Hendrix sang something to the effect, "Everything goes into the sea, eventually." This is why I do not eat fish, sea salt, or take fish oil or chlorella.

Unless perhaps if it is molecularly distilled, fish oil has trace amounts of mercury. I know this because I an extremely allergic to mercury. I react to tiny amounts of mercury. Even Carlson's fish oil has it, trust me on that. I reacted to it. Cod liver oil has even more mercury than regular fish oil because mercury collects in fish's livers. I eat all land-based food and pray my organic beef was not given well-water with lead to drink.

There is no good reason to eat fish. Organic meat and eggs are high in omega3 fats. Vegetables are very high in omega3 fats. When you're like me and get seizures and rage reactions from mercury, the word "fish" is synonymous with toxic waste.

I have to respectfully disagree with Dr. Mercola's recommendation of krill oil. For one thing it comes from the ocean so there is no guarantee it is completely free of mercury. But also, krill is very important in the food chain. If we keep harvesting krill we may end up making life even more difficult for the baleen whales and other animals who eat krill. Does anyone else feel this way?

Annette

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Pat Ormsby — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 16:06:24 GMT

I think Craig has made a good point about fish not being the only source of POPs. So I would like pose the following questions: 1) What are other possible sources of POPs in the diet? 2) Are there any ways to eliminate POPs once they are in your system? /// Regarding 1), I have seen people roast food over fires in which they were burning plastic garbage. I would imagine that would be one source. Regarding 2), the Japanese press has mentioned consuming daikon leaves and pectin as helpful in ridding the body of dioxins. Any further information would be highly appreciated.

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Pat Ormsby — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 12:00:13 GMT

This is very important information, and even if the original article did not mention fish, there is considerable other evidence that fish can contain dangerous amounts of POPs. It has been a big issue in the Arctic with the Inuit and polar bears at the top of the food chain. Since the research was done in Korea, it is possible that fish are not mentioned as a source of POPs because fishing is a big part of the economy there. The same is true in Japan, where diabetes is an enormous problem despite the good health of these people heretofore. Today, yet one more friend reported to us that he is now diabetic. Metabolic syndrome is now a household word, shortened characteristically to "Metabo." The media say that it is due to a high calorie diet and warn everyone to avoid fats, thus skewing the already high-carb diet even more heavily toward carbohydrates, setting the stage for a monumental tragedy! The media cannot mention pollution of fish for fear of political repercussions. The myth persists that westerners take fish oil supplements because they don't like the taste of "healthy fish." I will keep passing on the information I'm learning here on Dr. Mercola's website, but they will not listen to an "unhealthy American." /// Just call me "Cassandra"!

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PPARGammaGirl — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 22:47:57 GMT

The original article may not have mentioned fish specifically, but it is well accepted that fish contains significant amounts of POPs and its consumption greatly contributes to human levels – especially salmon and shellfish.

1. Cuadra, S.N., et al., Persistent organochlorine pollutants in children working at a waste-disposal site and in young females with high fish consumption in Managua, Nicaragua. Ambio, 2006. 35(3): p. 109-16.

2. Roveda, A.M., et al., [Exposure to polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) in food and cancer risk: recent advances]. Ig Sanita Pubbl, 2006. 62(6): p. 677-96.

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Craig Wilcox — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 19:40:33 GMT

Let's be careful here. I just read the original article, and I didn't see any mention of fish. I don't know how the BBC came up with the headline.

POPs do aggregate in fatty fish...and in other animals. I think the headline is misleading. It should read, "Dioxins and othe Persistent Organic Pesticides May Cause Insulin Resistance."

New Scientist doesn't mention fish either. Instead, it says that obesity, coupled with POPs in the adipose tissue, may be a cause of insulin resistance.

Again, let's be careful with hyperbolic headlines.

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Josh Rubin — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 19:04:18 GMT

I feel you can still eat fish from the ocean, you just have to concious on the type of fish. Y ou should as well take cod liver oil and krill oil. I find that if people like fish (it should be rotated in the diet as well to restrict the amount of exposure to it), I have them take chlorella or other producst that bind to the heavy metals. This allows them to pee them out. As well, doing 1-2x a year cleanses does the trick.

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cheftodd — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 18:44:01 GMT

Question, If the fish that you are eating is bad, and the fish has oil in it , then taking fish oil in pill form would be bad for you also.

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Russ Bianchi — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 18:36:28 GMT

What bummer news!

Back to a fish-less, unprocessed, Med Diet, of 1,500 calories per day, or less, I guess...?