http://www.allexperts.com/ http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/rawpaleodiet/ >Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2007 08:41:25 -0500 >From: "Kristina K. Carlton" <[log in to unmask]> >Subject: Fish > >Hi All, > >I just found out that I am intolerant to chicken, beef, and pork. I need to >avoid these foods for at least 12 weeks and am looking at different protein >options. I tested ok for venison, duck, goose, and ostrich and also various >fish. With fish I am concerned about mercury or other harmful substances >used on farm raised fish. Which fish would be safe to eat? > >Thanks, >Kristina There've been a number of scientific studies done on the issue of mercury in fish. The most reliable, and longest-running one, the Seychelles study, confirmed that there are no effects whatsoever, no matter how small, for people who ate 10 times as much fish/shellfish per week as the average American. Here's a website re this study, along with another website which points out quite a few of the inconsistencies behind the mercury claims:- http://tinyurl.com/2orch2 http://www.fishscam.com/ Whatever the case, even those behind the mercury-claims usually state that it's OK to eat the smaller fish at the bottom of the food-chain, as they are claimed to have lower mercury-levels. In the case of farmed fish, I've found out that the US has fewer rules and restrictions than European countries . For example, the chemical canthaxanthin is regularly used in the US to give farmed salmon the same colour as wild-caught salmon - this is because wild-caught salmon eat shrimp etc, to get their natural pink-red colour, whereas farmed salmon are fed all sorts of muck so that their flesh has a sickly grey colour, without that extra chemical-dye. The UK has banned canthaxanthin, in the case of organic-farmed fish, because of its suspected cancer-causing properties etc., but nonorganic farmed salmon can still have the chemical added to it. I gather that the US doesn't have an official organic category for farmed fish, as yet, so best to just buy wild-caught fish. Farmed shellfish is another matter- from what I understand, it's mostly a lot healthier than the equiavlent farmed fish - there have been some serious health concerns re the shrimp/prawn-farming industry, but that's all I've heard. Geoff _________________________________________________________________ The next generation of Hotmail is here! http://www.newhotmail.co.uk/