This study is one of the more recent ascribing benefits to eating fish. Unfortunately our modern culture has contaminated most fish with mercury. This is largely due to power plants that burn coal for generating electricity. These plants pollute the air with 80,000 pounds of mercury per year which are then deposited into the ocean and bioaccumulated, sometimes more than a million fold, in the fish.

Folks, this is real. Even the hyperconservative US government has issued warnings for pregnant women to not consume most fish.

So be cautious about eating fish and follow the recommendations listed in the first link below. If you do eat fish consider using chlorella to bind the mercury in the fish so it is flushed down the toilet and not absorbed into your system.

My current favorite source for fish oils is Carlson's Lemon Flavored Cod Liver oil as the test is great (like lemon melted butter) and it is also high in vitamin D and vitamin A.

I will soon have an outstanding quality low cost chlorella. In the next two months we will complete our eCommerce section on the web site and will be able to offer the chlorella to you for about $49 a pound or $29 for 8 ounces and we will have free shipping.

The chlorella is superior to Sun Chlorella which sells for $250 a pound in most health food stores. If you are a patient in our Center you can purchase the chlorella in our office now.

So you think that eating farm-raised fish will save you? Well, nearly all farm raised fish, including salmon, will not be beneficial.

Why?

Because farm raised fish are fed grains like corn and these grains do not form the beneficial fatty acids DHA and EPA. Without these beneficial fatty acids, you will not receive all the benefits that many studies ascribe to eating fish.

Farm raised fish may also be exposed to tremendously high pesticide levels, which results from run-off coming from nearby agricultural crops that are usually heavily sprayed.

Over the past week Joan Levin, one of my Chicago readers, did a bit of her own research on the prevalence of farmed salmon. She asked at fish markets (supermarkets, Treasure Island and Whole Foods) and also at restaurants (medium priced ones -- where the average meal check is about $20, and where she was able to ask a manager or even the chef) .

In virtually all cases, she found the fish was farmed. The exception was at Whole Foods where in the raw fish department you could buy either farm or wild salmon. The wild salmon was much more expensive as the farmed salmon.

Even at Whole Foods, all of the cooked salmon (where they sell both grilled and poached salmon prepared daily) was farmed, according to the store manager I spoke with. As far as she can tell, the word "Atlantic" does NOT describe the provenance of the salmon -- but rather the variety.

If someone knows otherwise, please let me know, but it appears reasonable to assume that reasonably priced canned salmon is farmed, and that virtually all trout served in restaurants or sold at fish markets today is farmed.

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