BOSTON, MA (October 18, 2006) – The heart-protective benefits of eating seafood can outweigh the harm from mercury and other contaminants that accumulate in fish, according to two major studies intended to resolve the confusing dietary advice that consumers have received on eating seafood.
The studies, from the Institute of Medicine and Harvard University, said that eating seafood at least twice a week could reduce the risk of heart disease, and that the risk from contaminants could be minimized by the choice of fish.
“The average person can consume more fish than they do," said Susan M. Krebs-Smith of the National Cancer Institute, a member of the committee that wrote the Institute of Medicine study. The most recent federal statistic indicated that fish consumption per person in 2003 was about 5 ounces a week.
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