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Why Eating Fish is good for Your Health

Why Eating Fish is good for Your Health

Eating fish is good for your health in many ways, but because of industrial pollution, we have to be really careful about the kind that we buy in the drugstore.  If you enjoy fishing, you may be able to safely throw your catch on the grill and eat it, but you may not.  Consumption advisories are often posted at boat ramps.  For those people that buy their seafood in the grocery store, advisories are posted online.

Women and children are at the greatest risk for mercury and PCB consumption.  Although PCBs were banned in the late 1970s, they are persistent in the environment.  In other words, they aren’t biodegradable.  They keep hanging around to kill us.

The risk of PCB consumption is an increased risk of cancer.  The risk of mercury consumption is varied.  It ranges from acute poisoning to chronic body burden.

There is reason to believe that consumption of small amounts of heavy metals over a person’s lifetime contributes to or causes Alzheimer’s and age-related dementia.  Mercury is a heavy metal.  So are lead, arsenic and other metals present in the environment.

It is known that eating fish contaminated with mercury during pregnancy leads to severe birth defects.  In young children, it causes brain damage and can result in death.  It is somewhat ironic that mercury causes brain dysfunction, but the nutrients found in oily fish are essential for normal brain development.

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