Last week Carrie Taylor, a registered dietitian, wrote a column in The Republican where she set out to help parents who are completely confused when it comes to feeding their kids seafood.

Her stated goal was to set the record straight and she did.

Taylor takes a science-based approach to explaining the importance of seafood in a diet and the limitations that are suggested for children. She does not get side-tracked by the myriad competing interests that often distort the facts and make these nutrition decisions much harder than they should be for parents.

Its nice to see that kind of work making it into print.

And then there was this little nugget in the Chicago Tribune that reported on the major themes of the American Dietetic Association’s Food and Nutrition Conference and Expo.

In reporting about feeding your brain theres an entire section on seafood and the conference discussion about the fear that “seafood deficient diets may be having negative consequences in the U.S. And that unwarranted warnings about mercury in fish have scared people away from eating the two to three servings per week that are needed to reach optimal levels of DHA omega-3.

In what has unfortunately, in the recent past, been a rare occurrencethe Trib fairly and even handedly reported on that aspect of the discussion without slipping into menacing mercury laden fish-bashing.

Some might disagree with me, as I am giving them kudos for simply doing the job they are supposed to be doing but with their history being what it is I feel its worth calling them out when they get it right too.