Fish..good fish..the best fish

Valentine Wolff · 10-25-2009, 03:39 AM

My protein source has been primarily chicken breast but I want to add fish for all the benefits like fatty acids and great smell to your breath that come with eating fish. But everywhere I look online I see warnings for this and that about these fish comming from polluted waters etc etc.

Whats a reliable place to get fish that havent had all the neutrients sucked out of them? I heard canned fish dont have much in the way of neutrients, but that was comming from a bum who was looking hungrily at my tuna sandwhich....

advice?

zhangmaster12 · 10-25-2009, 11:50 PM

Go to your local supermarket. Find the fresh fish part. Take out wallet. Buy fish. Forget about the warnings from this or that. Take fish home. Cook. Eat. Enjoy.

On a more serious note, just get fish from your local supermarket or fish mart. Maybe a whole foods or trader joes if you can afford it. Those fish are perfectly fine 99.9% of the time. Ive never gotten sick from them. Tastes great, unlike canned which tastes like fishy cardboard.

JSN · 10-26-2009, 12:09 AM

people who eat canned flesh of any source suck at life.

**XTrainer** · 10-26-2009, 12:27 AM

Proverb: Better canned goodness than fresh crap.

Valentine Wolff · 10-26-2009, 11:09 AM

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Originally Posted by zhangmaster12

Go to your local supermarket. Find the fresh fish part. Take out wallet. Buy fish. Forget about the warnings from this or that. Take fish home. Cook. Eat. Enjoy.

On a more serious note, just get fish from your local supermarket or fish mart. Maybe a whole foods or trader joes if you can afford it. Those fish are perfectly fine 99.9% of the time. Ive never gotten sick from them. Tastes great, unlike canned which tastes like fishy cardboard.

Take out wallet is right. You pay in blood for fish these days....

Saith · 10-26-2009, 03:24 PM

Step 1: Go to costco.
Step 2: Buy gigantic bag of frozen fish.
Step 3: Profit.

ocean size · 10-28-2009, 05:56 AM

Fish is just protein- if that is what you are looking for it doesn't matter if it is in a can or not. Just get the one packed in water.

If you are buying it in a store and it is wild-caught, you don't need to worry about pollutants, high mercury etc- I've at times eaten large amounts of ahi or billfish daily for months without dying or my balls falling off.

But stay away from farm raised fish- higher in heavy metals, pcbs, fatty acid profile is f'ed up, they taste shitty. Check the label.

Fish are a great source of fatty acids like omega 3s, especially wild caught salmon.

EndoGlo · 10-28-2009, 09:44 AM

^^^ you didn't read his opening sentence did you?

Zalach · 10-28-2009, 10:59 AM

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Originally Posted by ocean size

...If you are buying it in a store and it is wild-caught, you don't need to worry about pollutants, high mercury etc- I've at times eaten large amounts of ahi or billfish daily for months without dying or my balls falling off.

But stay away from farm raised fish- higher in heavy metals, pcbs, fatty acid profile is f'ed up...

I disagree. I agree with the (sustainable) wild caught being better than farm raised.

Mercury poisoning is subtle and can take years to develop. I wouldn't want to mess with it so I'll stick to the recommended dosages... The FDA lists it at 1ppm which isn't much... if one is trying to eat clean and healthy, why wouldn't this be taken into account like anything else?

ocean size · 10-29-2009, 03:40 AM

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Originally Posted by Zalach

I disagree. I agree with the (sustainable) wild caught being better than farm raised.

Mercury poisoning is subtle and can take years to develop. I wouldn't want to mess with it so I'll stick to the recommended dosages... The FDA lists it at 1ppm which isn't much... if one is trying to eat clean and healthy, why wouldn't this be taken into account like anything else?

The FDA says even pregnant women can eat tuna up to 2 times a week safely. I just feel the dangers of mercury poisoning are overblown.

As far as farmed vs wild caught, farmraised fish have the same health risks as far as pcbs and mercury as wild, if not more. Why? Because farm raised fish are fed fish! (along with grain, and copious amounts of antibiotics.)

Also, the fatty acids profiles are never as good in farmed fish as the most similar wild alternative because their goal is to get the fish to market size as quick as possible, on the cheapest feed possible.

Edit: check out this site for a good mercury vs. omega 3 comparison for various species:

Fish, Levels of Mercury and Omega-3 Fatty Acids