The Dangers of Eating Fish

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59% of the "Tuna" Americans Eat is Not Tuna

Nonprofit ocean-protection group Oceana genetically tested 1,215 samples of tuna from across the United States. 18% of grocery stores, 38% of restaurants, and 74% of sushi restaurants sold mislabeled tuna. Nearly all of fish samples labeled "white tuna" were actually escolar. The only fish more likely to be misrepresented than tuna is snapper.

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Eating Tilapia is Worse Than Eating Bacon, and More About Farm Raised Fish

Farm raised Tilapian is a popular source for fish, not only because it’s widely available in the US, but it’s also very inexpensive. It’s known in the food business as “aquatic chicken” because it breeds easily and tastes bland. Tilapia has a higher inflammatory potential than that of a hamburger or pork bacon! Additionally, farm bred fish contain antibiotics and pesticides, offer lower levels of nutrients, are more carcenogenic and toxic than wild caught varieties. You can buy wild caught fish at health food stores and online.

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Mediterranean Offers Scary View of Ocean Futures

Warmed, overfished, and polluted, the small Mediterranean Sea is giving scientists a look at what the future may hold for the rest of Earth’s oceans — and it’s not pretty.

Beneath its surface, a transformation is taking place. Food webs are shrinking, with rich ecosystems that supported valuable commercial fisheries giving way to barrens dominated by jellyfish and tiny invertebrates. Mass die-offs and disease are now common.

04

When is Fish Oil Rancid?

When it is fresh, fish oil is a healthy source of omega-3 fatty acids. But like any other oil, fish oil can spoil and become rancid. I bought rancid fish oil capsules at GNC.

Test your fish oil for rancidity every few days. The two easiest ways to determine if fish oil is rancid are taste and smell. Taste the oil; it should taste fresh and mild. If the oil tastes strongly fishy or bad, discard it. If you purchase your fish oil in gel caps, chew the gel cap to taste the oil. Fresh fish oil has a fresh aroma that is not overly fishy. If the oil smells overly strong, bad or like rotting fish, discard it.

Rancid fish oils, like other free radicals, are harmful to your health and may cause damage to your body at a cellular level. Rancid fish oil may increase your risk of heart disease, atherosclerosis and blood clots. When you consume rancid fish oils, your body must use its stores of antioxidants such as vitamin E to neutralize the rancid oils, leaving fewer of these resources available to your body for cellular repair and disease prevention.

05

Your Days of Eating Pacific Ocean Fish are Over

It now appears that anywhere from300 to 450+ tons of contaminated water that contains radioactive iodone, cesium, and strontium-89 and 90, is flooding into the Pacific Ocean from the Fukushima Daichi site everyday. To give you an idea of how bad that actually is, Japanese experts estimate Fukushima’s fallout at 20 to 30 times as high as as the Hiroshima and Nagasaki nuclear bombings in 1945.