Fish & seafood are a great source of protein. Also they
contain healthy fats & omega-3 fatty acids that help keep your heart
healthy. Therefore eating fish& seafood is good because of healthy benefits
of it. However eating of wrong kind of fish more frequently may raise the level
of mercury in your body. This is especially dangerous for pregnant and
breastfeeding women because fetus and new-borns are very sensitive to mercury.
Therefore it cannot be disadvantage if we know which fish to eat or which fish
to avoid eating frequently.
All fish contain traceable amounts of mercury. However
eating high mercury level fish more often may cause problems.
Mostly Big fish have more mercury. The simple reason is that
big fish usually live longer having enough time to build up higher mercury level.
In this fact, eating small fish is more better than eating big fish more often.
Below is the list of fish according to their level of
mercury.
nice and an informative post... good one
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Very useful chart. Thanks for the post!
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