Pollution in Seafood

[truelies]

http://www.truehealth.org/aquesan1.html

It is true that all seafood is more or less polluted nowadays, but there is no getting around it anymore. The sad truth is that the whole world is polluted now - and that we get most of the mercury, lead and aluminum just from breathing.

Production and manufacturing processes, wear and tear from using (aluminum windows, aluminum wheels on cars, lead batteries), and finally, discarding, has resulted in atoms of these substances floating around in our atmosphere. And air currents have taken them everywhere - from pole to pole. For instance, tens of thousands of thermometers, thermostats and mercury switches (in cars) are crushed constantly by demolition, car junk yards and in dumps...........................

[Julia]

Good article, truelies. But you didn't copy the best parts... ;)

more from the article:

However, our daily food is even far more polluted than seafood. Hundreds of thousands of tons of agricultural poisons have been applied, and continue to be applied to the soils and products of our farms (see the current agricultural growing recommendations for CORN and LETTUCE as typical examples).

At least seafood is free of these heavily and frequently applied poisons on and in our daily food. And chemical pollution is now everywhere, including the Arctics, which are 'at the end of the world' as far as industry and agriculture are concerned. Indeed, the 'pristine Arctics are more heavily polluted than the inhabited regions. This is due to the fact that the cold climates of the Arctics trap and concentrate the pollutants, whereas the warmer regions are regularly washed and 'flushed' by rain and run-off.

And since the volume of the oceans is so immensely and incomparably greater than the volume of our arable land, any pollution is - except for heavily polluted coastal areas - far more dilute in the oceans. So, seafood is most probably the least polluted of all of our foods.

Further, and as far as I am concerned, it would stand to reason that all open-sea fish - or "deep-sea" fish, as they say - would be the least polluted, and that coastal seafood species harvested from polluted coastal waters would be the most polluted. So, stick with open-sea fish as much as you can.

and:

The typical Japanese diet includes at least one, and often more servings of seafood per day - usually for breakfast, for lunch (sushi) and for dinner. And the Japanese are - with the exceptions of the Hunzas, the Georgians of Russia, the Villacabambas of Ecuador, the Titicacans of Peru, and the Okinawans of Japan - the longest living and healthiest people on this Earth. A daily serving of seafood is equally as prominent among the Chinese, and they are even healthier than the Japanese (see CANCER COMPARISON in these pages).

The first and most prominent symptoms of mercury poisoning are mental and psychological - severe irritability, moodiness, inability to concentrate, extreme fatigue, memory problems, difficulty speaking, and so forth - all of which are reversible with the elimination of mercury sources.

But despite the fact that Japan is - as very small country which produces the world's 3rd largest economy - far more polluted than most Western nations, the incidence of mental disorders and diseases in Japan affects only a miniscule 1% of the population - including Alzheimer's - whereas in the Western World it stands at 14%. So, and despite their high seafood consumption, and their greater longevity, the Japanese have virtually no mental problems and disorders.

And while additional mercury from fish might put some people who already harbour high mercury levels 'over the top', for most people mercury in seafood, and as demonstrated by the Japanese, is of little or no consequence. Of far greater concern should be the constant source of 20 to 50 mg of mercury from mercury amalgam in dental fillings -and it appears that I have unwittingly eaten all my mercury fillings when they fell out, however, without any apparent ill effect.

and

Because of the above concerns, a recurring question is what kind of seafood is low in mercury. The following information comes from the Dept. of Environmental Protection. These are fish which are low in mercury - Safest Seafood: Haddock, Cod, Hake, Flounder, Pollock, Pacific Salmon, Atlantic Salmon, Herring, Smelt, Clams, Shrimp, Scallops, Lobster (except the tomally). I would caution here that clams, scallops and lobsters from polluted coastal waters will be not the best kind of seafood for our health.
(but, regarding salmon: make sure it is WILD salmon, NOT farm-raised. Farm-raised is artificially colored.)

[truelies]

Good article, truelies. But you didn't copy the best parts... ;)



Thats cause wendy threatened to break my fingers for posting too much of an article rather than using links.

[Julia]

Thats cause wendy threatened to break my fingers for posting too much of an article rather than using links.


Oh. :-X
Well, I like the parts I posted better... :P ;)

[truelies]

Oh. :-X
Well, I like the parts I posted better... :P ;)


well be that way :(

[Julia]

well be that way :(


;)