New Guidelines Recommend Americans Eat Seafood Twice A Week Report Reuters Health
Reuters Health reports that a new set of health guidelines recommend that all Americans — especially pregnant and nursing women and children — eat seafood twice a week, despite the current concern about pollution contamination.
The new guidelines are based on scientific findings presented at a conference in Washington D.C, which indicated seafood helps people live longer and healthier lives, and cuts the risk for heart disease, cancer, Alzheimer’s, stroke, diabetes, and inflammatory diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis.
Nutrients such as omega-3 fatty acids, iodine, iron and choline, present in fish such as wild and farmed salmon, shrimp, pollock, cod, canned light tuna and catfish, are important in brain development and may lessen the effects of dyslexia, autism, hyperactivity and attention deficit disorder, researchers have found, and some studies have linked those nutrients with increased intelligence in infants and young children.
[New Guidelines Recommend Americans Eat Seafood Twice A Week Report Reuters Health]
