• Health Blog

    The Folly of Giving Time to the Activists

    Should We Stop Eating Fish is both the title and the central question that Emily Jacobs asks in a recent article at The Daily Meal. As anyone who has bothered to spend the five seconds it takes to Goo...

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    A Simple Answer For Carl Safina

    Carl Safina dedicates 1,167 words to speculating on the potential harm from mercury in seafood, but he could have saved himself a lot of time by skipping to the central question, which he asks mercury...

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    Michael Bender and Edward Groths Willful Ignorance

    When young children hear things they dont like, theyve been known to cover their ears, shut their eyes, and yell at the top of their lungs LA-LA-LA-LA-LA! in the hope that if they cant hear or see the...

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    Evidence Continues To Grow On Benefits of Seafood Consumption

    The evidence for the health benefits of eating seafood has been steadily growing over the years. Studies have shown that higher seafood consumption improves cardiac health, boosts fetal and infant cog...

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    Consumer Reports Continues to Mislead on Seafood and Health

    We recently sent a letter to the editors of Consumer Reports once again challenging their chronic habit of misreporting and manipulating the facts on seafood nutrition. Their most recent distortion co...

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    Huffington Post Regurgitates Activist Report Unchecked

    Over at the Huffington Post Green Blog, Carl Safina has a post up parroting the worst of the talking points from a recent Environmental Working Group [EWG] report designed to scare consumers away from...

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    Environmental Working Group Seafood Report Is A Conspiracy Theory

    The Environmental Working Group (EWG), long known for their fearmongering, is at it again, issuing a new report attacking official scientific advice from the U.S. government about the importance of ea...

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    Real Simple Makes It Real Complicated When It Comes to Eating Seafood

    January 10, 2014Dear Ms. Harris,I was surprised and disappointed by the section regarding fish in your article How Much Is Too Much in the January, 2014 issue ofReal Simple. While author Sarah Copelan...

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    Rutgers Study Fails the Test

    The Journal of Risk Research recently published a study from Rutgers University researchers entitled Sushi consumption rates and mercury levels in sushi: ethnic and demographic differences in exposure...

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    Got Mercury

    Got Mercury is a campaign launched by the Turtle Island Restoration Network, an activist organization that goes heavy on the rhetoric while skimping on the science. The campaign’s website explains: ...