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Ocean to Plate: Spearfishing Adventures and Sustainable Seafood with Valentine Thomas

Year of Plenty: Traditional Foodways

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The Health Benefits of Eating Seafood

Fish has mercury in the wild and it's not necessarily coming. If you eat let's say swordfish or marlin or tuna or sharks maybe three or four times a week for a long period of time then yes you will have an accomplishment of mercury in your body. Selenium counters the effects of mercury, unless you go eat sushi and you eat tuna every single day of the week, you'll be fine. There was a study that was fascinating. They were saying that they made a study between putting a woman who eat fish and some who don't eat fish and they want to eat fish and increase in IQ by 7.7 IQ points. How insane is that? That's insane.

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