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U-Conn study finds fish oil may reduce Postpartum Depression symptoms |
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There are many advantages to eating fish or taking fish oil supplements as part of a healthy diet. But new research out of the University of Connecticut shows that the omega-3 fatty acids found in fish oil is particularly beneficial to pregnant women, as it appears to reduce symptoms of postpartum depression. |
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Distaste widening for shark’s fin soup |
| Hong Kong — Coral Seafood Restaurant owner Norman Ho’s problem with shark’s fin soup is not that he’s worried about sharks. It’s that making a flavorful soup out of the tasteless fins is an elaborate, costly process. | |||
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Tests Reveal Mislabeling of Fish |
| Scientists aiming their gene sequencers at commercial seafood are discovering rampant labeling fraud in supermarket coolers and restaurant tables: cheap fish is often substituted for expensive fillets, and overfished species are passed off as fish whose numbers are plentiful. | |||
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Reconsidering the Lobster |
| What is a lobster? It's a more complex question than you might think. There are more than 100 varieties, from the large American lobster with which we are most familiar (in the 17th century, they were known to grow to as much as 45 pounds) to the smaller Norway lobster and the spiny rock lobsters of the Caribbean and Pacific. Lobsters today are in fact very similar to the original members of their biological family, which appeared about 250 million years ago. "You can't improve upon perfection," as the saying goes. | |||
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Seafood you eat may not be what you think it is |
| (CBS News) - When you cozy up to the table to take a bite out that fish on your plate, are you being scammed? A new report by the ocean conservation group Oceana finds that a surprising number of times, Americans are not eating the seafood they think they are. | |||
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HASTINGS: Time to improve the Endangered Species Act
May 18, 2012 - When the Endangered Species Act (ESA) was signed into law in 1973 by President Nixon, he spoke about the importance of preserving “the rich array of animal life with which our country has been blessed.” I believe that goal is as important today as it was back then. However, after nearly 40 years, it’s time to take a fresh, honest look at the law and consider whether there are ways it could be improved to do a better job of protecting and recovering species.
