An increasing number of consumers are looking into getting the omega 3 health benefits of eating fish but still avoid having seafood for dinner too often. This seems strange at first but what people are doing is trying to fix nutritional problems without poisoning themselves.
Some people love to have seafood 5-6 times a week and are willing to take the risk of absorbing too many ocean pollutants. For them, there is no debate. However, if you are judging solely based on health reasons the winner is clearly fish oil supplements - assuming they are the right kind of supplements.
Most people who are used to eating fish are aware of the various natural and man made contaminants they absorb in the ocean - arsenic, mercury PCBs etc. Farmed fish are not an improvement. They do not have the nutritional content that their wild counterparts do. In addition, the crowded living conditions are breeding grounds for parasites and viruses. Farm administrators fight these problems with anti-bodies and pesticides.
With all this in mind, the FDA recommends eating fish no more than twice per week. Other experts think that twice a month is a better number. There are a lot of variables that make this problem difficult to get a handle on.
For instance, Alaskan salmon is often marketed as pure and maybe off the coast of Alaska it is. However, salmon travel thousands of miles from fresh water to the ocean and back to fresh water to spawn. They can get as many toxins from the food chain as say, a species whose origins are from Northern California waters.
Quality supplements have two ways around this. The first is using an source that swims in clean waters their whole lives - preferably one that is not endangered.. My product uses hoki, an omega 3 rich fish that swims in the Southern ocean southwest of New Zealand. Looking at the map, the closest southwest neighbor is Antarctica.
Next, make sure the product is molecularly distilled. This works if done correctly. However, it may not remove some chemical additives. The solution is not to use chemicals in the first place.
In conclusion. If you want to roll the dice and still eat fish for the omega 3s, remember, it is cold water fatty fish that provide the health benefits - not flakey white fish. A better plan is to eat seafood every now and then but use fish oil supplements for the nutritional help.
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