For “Foodie Friday”:
Wild or Farmed Fish: What's Better?
The Pros and Cons for Your Health and the Planet
“These days, an increasing number of health-conscious consumers are choosing to eat fish for its heart-healthy benefits. The American Heart Association recommends that adults eat fish twice a week to meet their needs for omega-3 fatty acids, but how do you know if the fish you're eating is beneficial?
There are many factors to consider when choosing which fish to eat, two of which include species (the type of fish, such as halibut, salmon, etc.) and source (where the fish was raised or caught). These aren't simple decisions when you consider that the nutritional value of fish varies from species to species, and that each source carries a different potential for contamination, nutrition and environmental impact.
- According to research in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, farmed salmon contains two or three times fewer Omega-3's even though it contains more overall fat than wild salmon due to its grain-based diet. The same is is true for other popular farmed fish, such as catfish and tilapia.
- Nutrition: Wild fish are usually healthier (higher in Omega-3s) and less contaminated than farmed fish.”
More at: http://www.sparkpeople.com/resource/nutrition_articles.asp?id=1282
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If You Choose Wisely, the Benefits of a High Fish Diet Can Still Outweigh the Risks Associated with Mercury Contamination
A general guideline is that the closer to the bottom of the food chain the fish is, the less contamination it will have accumulated. This includes:
- Sardines
- Anchovies
- Herring”
More and video at: http://www.mmshealthyforlife.com/?tag=dr-mercola&paged=2 and http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2012/12/23/high-fish-diet.aspx
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Mercury Exposure
“Today’s seafood cases and sushi menus present a wide variety of fish to
choose from, such as swordfish from South Africa, salmon from Alaska, or
tilapia from Honduras. And the typical consumer checking out his or her
options isn’t aware that some types of fish contain high levels of mercury
contamination and others contain vastly lower levels. As a result, many
people do not know that they can avoid the risks of mercury exposure
while still enjoying the benefits of including seafood in their diets.
Within each organism, methylmercury bioac-cumulates as the organism con-sumes more and more organisms containing methylmercury. Thus, smaller fish that are lower down in the food chain have lower concentrations of mercury in their tissues while larger fish that are higher up in the food chain have higher concentrations. For example, sardines contain about .01 ppm of mercury while sharks contain from 1 ppm to as much as 4 ppm (EPA, 2006). Fish with the highest levels of mercury include sharks, swordfish, and king mackerels. Large marine mammals such as whales have levels similar to these fish.
Mackerel: Not to be confused with King Mackerel: Mackerel samples (saba or aji) showed low levels of mercury, with an average of 0.1 ppm and a maximum of 0.27 ppm (Table 6). This type of fish would be a good
alternative for those sushi eaters concerned with their mercury exposure. It should be stressed that these mackerel species (typically horse, Atlantic, Pacific or chubb) are low in mercury and also high in omega-3 fatty acids (see Table 7). These should not be confused with king mackerel, a high
mercury fish species listed in the FDA “Do Not Eat” advisory.”
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Monsanto’s Roundup Devastating Gut Health, Contributing to Overgrowth of Deadly Bacteria
The journal Current Microbiology recently published a study that caught Monsanto’s Roundup herbicide’s active ingredient, glyphosate, suppressing beneficial bacteria in poultry specimens. Given that gut health is directly linked to chronic illnesses and overall health, this isn’t exactly welcome news for people who can’t always afford or who lack access to organic, locally grown food.
But it gets worse. While good bacteria died, highly pathogenic bacteria were unaffected by glyphosate. These pathogens include several strains of Salmonella and the class Colstridia, anaerobic bacteria known to be some of the deadliest known to us, including C. tetani (tetanus) and C. botulinum (botulin). Although botulin is used to ease overactive muscles and in Botox, America’s most popular cosmetic procedure, it takes but 75 billionths of a gram to kill someone weighing 75 kg (165 lbs).
“A reduction of beneficial bacteria in the gastrointestinal tract microiota by ingestion of glyphosate could disturb the normal gut bacterial community,” the authors of the study wrote. Glyphosate, they added, “could be a significant predisposing factor that is associated with the increase in Clostridia botulinum-mediated diseases by suppressing the antagonistic effect of these [good] bacteria on clostridia.”
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General Mills Gets a Taste of the Backlash After it Spent Over $1.1 Million to Defeat GMO Labeling Initiative
“Organic foods are required by U.S. federal law to be produced in ways that promote ecological sustainability, without common toxic and genetically engineered ingredients.
But organic products are increasingly being forced to compete with products that are labeled as "natural." There are no restrictions on the term "natural", and it often constitutes nothing more than meaningless marketing hype. Most disturbing of all, many foods labeled as "natural" actually contain genetically engineered ingredients, and breakfast cereals are particularly guilty of this.
California's Proposition 37, which would have required GE foods to be labeled as such and prevented GE foods from being mislabeled as "natural," was defeated back in November due to massive donations from multinational corporations that hide GE ingredients behind natural labels and "wholesome" advertising. One such company was General Mills, which donated more than $1.1 million to the ‘No on Prop. 37’ campaign to defeat the GE labeling law. I recently told you this betrayal of consumers' trust will backfire, and General Mills just got a taste of the backlash. More at: http://www.occupylv.org/topics/general-mills-gets-taste-backlash-after-it-spent-over-11-million-defeat-gmo-labeling-initiati
General Mills Gets a Taste of the Backlash
“General Mills, which donated more than $1.1 million to the 'No on Prop. 37' campaign to defeat the GE labeling law, recently got a taste of the backlash from their subversive tactics.
Just one day after General Mills’ Cheerios brand released a Facebook app allowing “fans” to “show what Cheerios mean to them,” the app was abruptly pulled due to thousands of angry consumers using it to create anti-GMO statements and lashing out against the company’s treachery
Two of the first three ingredients in Cheerios and Honey Nut Cheerios are corn starch and sugar—two ingredients that might be genetically engineered (a majority of corn-based ingredients and sugar from sugar beets on the US market is now GE)
The fact that General Mills would rather pay millions to hide that their products contain GE ingredients rather than give you the choice to buy something else, or reformulate their product without GE ingredients is quite telling. And fortunately, people are now starting to see through these shady tactics where actions do not match the words
Washington state and Vermont are now working on people’s initiatives to get GE labeling laws passed in 2013.” More at: http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2012/12/18/general-mills-cheerios.aspx?e_cid=20121227_WNL_art_1
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Just One Bite
While dining out with friends recently, a thought struck me as we studied our choices.
It is sometimes a challenge for me to locate items that I can eat in a restaurant, without fear of aggravating the illness I suffer from. My two friends were facing the same dilemma, each for her own reason. Beyond individual dietary requirements, we were trying to avoid meat products forbidden in the Scriptures (Leviticus 11), HFCS (high-fructose corn syrup, which is implicated in many diseases) and GMOs (genetically modified organisms, whose effect on humans is controversial and therefore banned by six EU countries).
We know the Kingdom of God is not about eating and drinking (Romans 14:17) but we try in balance to protect our health so we can serve God and our families, while still enjoying our meals and fellowship.
The way of the world is hard
My mind drifted to some wonderful words in Genesis 2:16: “Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat; but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die”.
A fascinating progression of events has evolved over the 6,000 years since creation. Our kind, wise and loving Creator gave us an endless array of wonderful, nutritious foods to eat, and said there was only one fruit that we must abstain from. Now, after years of tampering by man, it is hard to find one that we can be sure is really good for us.
His Commandments are not burdensome What would our lives be like if, just in the area of agriculture, God’s laws were faithfully adhered to?
How healthy would we be? How much more prosperous would our national and personal economies be without skyrocketing health-care costs?
In the future, God says that the inhabitant in His Kingdom “will not say, ‘I am sick’” (Isaiah 33:24). That is an astonishing promise in light of today’s conditions.
Conditions for agricultural blessings
Since mankind sinned, the earth has changed. Flooding, windstorms and other weather disasters have eroded the land’s nutrients, but rain in due season was promised to those who were obedient to God’s Commandments (Deuteronomy 11:13-17), so the crops could be blessed.
God, who says “the land is Mine” (Leviticus 25:23), said to let it rest during the entire seventh year of release and in the 50th jubilee year (verses 1-22). With obedience to these principles, which required faith, God promised to “command My blessing on you in the sixth year, and it will bring forth produce enough for three years” (verse 21).
For the past decade the world has seen a dramatic collapse of bee colonies, due to a mixture of human-caused factors that are still being studied. Many crops depend exclusively on bee pollination for production, but 30 percent of bees in the United States and Britain have disappeared in the last 10 years. In some countries the loss is even greater. With such factors pending, it isn’t hard to imagine the mass starvation and disease predicted by the Scriptures before the return of Jesus Christ.
Do we really want another bite?
All it took was one bite, in Eden, to derail the vast blessings available to man. This is not just about food; the consequences echo the ramifications of not trusting God. In a way, it is a contrast of menus, and an object lesson about decisions. Which menu do we want to live by? Choose the one full of blessings with the easy yoke of obedience.” From: http://cogwa.org/godly-women-blog/entry/just-one-bite
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On This Day:
America's first Labor Day, Dec 28, 1869:
“The Knights of Labor, a labor union of tailors in Philadelphia, hold the first Labor Day ceremonies in American history. The Knights of Labor was established as a secret society of Pennsylvanian tailors earlier in the year and later grew into a national body that played an important role in the labor movement of the late 19th century.
The first annual observance of Labor Day was organized by the American Federation of Labor in 1884, which resolved in a convention in Chicago that "the first Monday in September be set aside as a laborer's national holiday." In 1887, Oregon became the first state to designate Labor Day a holiday, and in 1894 Congress designated the first Monday in September a legal holiday for all federal employees and the residents of the District of Columbia.”
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First commercial movie screened, Dec 28, 1895:
“On this day in 1895, the world's first commercial movie screening takes place at the Grand Cafe in Paris. The film was made by Louis and Auguste Lumiere, two French brothers who developed a camera-projector called the Cinematographe. The Lumiere brothers unveiled their invention to the public in March 1895 with a brief film showing workers leaving the Lumiere factory. On December 28, the entrepreneurial siblings screened a series of short scenes from everyday French life and charged admission for the first time.
Movie technology has its roots in the early 1830s, when Joseph Plateau of Belgium and Simon Stampfer of Austria simultaneously developed a device called the phenakistoscope, which incorporated a spinning disc with slots through which a series of drawings could be viewed, creating the effect of a single moving image. The phenakistoscope, considered the precursor of modern motion pictures, was followed by decades of advances and in 1890, Thomas Edison and his assistant William Dickson developed the first motion-picture camera, called the Kinetograph. The next year, 1891, Edison invented the Kinetoscope, a machine with a peephole viewer that allowed one person to watch a strip of film as it moved past a light.
The Lumieres opened theaters (known as cinemas) in 1896 to show their work and sent crews of cameramen around the world to screen films and shoot new material. In America, the film industry quickly took off. In 1896, Vitascope Hall, believed to be the first theater in the U.S. devoted to showing movies, opened in New Orleans. In 1909, The New York Times published its first film review (of D.W. Griffith's "Pippa Passes"), in 1911 the first Hollywood film studio opened and in 1914, Charlie Chaplin made his big-screen debut.
In addition to the Cinematographe, the Lumieres also developed the first practical color photography process, the Autochrome plate, which debuted in 1907.”
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Yesterday:
After posting this journal and feeding the animals, I was just going to get some jobs done around here, when a Yahoo group comment caught my eye. It was another place to advertize tiny trailers for free, well, it was 1c to stop spammers.
It took me a while to place the ad for my toyhauling-cargo-camper-trailer, and then I folded laundry and had lunch. Next time I looked at this computer, there were six answers to the ad. But as usual, people don’t read all the way through, one was in NY and another in OR. That’s way too far away. But all six of them still emailed me back and forth asking questions, which already had the answers in the ad. Some people!
So I didn’t get many jobs done. Kept busy watching out for the kitten when she was loose in the house because she couldn’t go out on the porch, as it was too cold yesterday.
2 comments:
No corn, even if you raise it yourself, is good for you. I try to avoid corn in all its forms, which is hard to do.
Thank you for your comment, DD.
People brought me food for the holidays as they thought I was missing out on something, which I am not.
I am amazed at some of the things that people eat containing GMO white flour and corn products. Don't they know what that is doing to their health?
I don't like to waste food, but I wouldn't even feed that unhealthy food to the birds! But my garbage disposal doesn't care what it eats, and I don't mean Misty!!
Happy Tails, and Trails, Penny.
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