Fish
Sunday, August 13th, 2006The February issue of Runner’s World magazine has an excellent article on fish. The article addresses the mercury and PCB issue, and offers a cute quote by Charles Santerre from Purdue: “If 100,000 people were to eat eight ounces of salmon every week for 70 years, we could predict that one person would get cancer because of PCB’s. Compare that to the thousands who would survive heart attacks if they ate more fish.”
I know I don’t eat enough.
I was unable to find the article on the RW website, but I’d like to summarize what were identified as appropriate types and frequency of consumption:
Frequently (2 to 3 times / week): Salmon, light tuna, shrimp, flounder, sole, mackerel, scallops, haddock.
Occasionally ( a few times / month ): Albacore tuna or tuna steaks, halibut, snapper, monkfish.
Infrequently (one or two times / month ): swordfish, shark, king mackerel, tilefish (golden snapper or golden bass).