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Article: POISONING OURSELVES; Once hailed as a miracle food, oily fish are now lethally contaminated with mercury. So are ANY natural foods safe from Man's wanton - and irreversible - destruction?
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- Daily Mail (London)
- Article date:
- August 28, 2004
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Byline: DAVID NICHOLSON-LORD
WERE you to designate a miracle food for the 21st century - a contemporary version of ambrosia, say, or manna - it might well be fish.
Oily fish - tuna, salmon, mackerel and so on - are the antidotes to the diseases and chronic conditions we fear most. They help prevent heart disease, Alzheimer's, cancer, arthritis.
They are a prophylactic for depression in adults, for hyperactivity in children. By speeding up our neural networks, they may make us brainier, too.
They also make us less violent and aggressive.
Our new appreciation of the value of fish, however - and in particular the balance of the omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids ...