Holistic Health Thread

pygmalion said:
Question to the void: What's up with eating fish? I did another of my in-famous potlucks yesterday, and one of my more high-maintenance guests was pescetarian -- basically a vegetarian who also eats fish. (High maintenance but more than worth it. She's a really nice lady who is combating some major health issues and finding her way.)

Anyway, as it turns out, she will eat anything fish -- fish from the supermarket, fish in a can, frozen fish, fish from McDonald's. I get that being a "fishy" lady can really limit your choices, but still ...

I haven't really kept up with fish, but the last I heard, there were MANY cautionary notes out there about fish -- mercury, dolphin, inhumane fish farming, etc. If I were pescetarian, I wouldn't blindly eat any and all fish, just because it's fish. OTOH, fish seems likje a great alternative to the massive amounts of red meat that people here eat.

Has anybody investigated what's in the fish they eat? Any thoughts?
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I spend a fair bit of the year as a pescatarian. (Every Lent, and usually the month before I compete. It's not unusal for me to cheat occassionally during the later cases.)

Anyways, I DO keep cognizant of my mercury consumption when I'm doing that. I don't go crazy on the albacore and I almost never eat swordfish (which is a shame, since it's so yummy). Farmed catfish, surpisingly enough, is actually a pretty good choice. (In comparison with farmed salmon, that is.)

I also make a point of having a fair number of flat-out vegetarian meals when I'm doing that. Part of that is for health reasons, but I won't lie. Part of it is that seafood is just plain expensive.
 
JudeMorrigan said:
I spend a fair bit of the year as a pescatarian. (Every Lent, and usually the month before I compete. It's not unusal for me to cheat occassionally during the later cases.)

Anyways, I DO keep cognizant of my mercury consumption when I'm doing that. I don't go crazy on the albacore and I almost never eat swordfish (which is a shame, since it's so yummy). Farmed catfish, surpisingly enough, is actually a pretty good choice. (In comparison with farmed salmon, that is.)

I also make a point of having a fair number of flat-out vegetarian meals when I'm doing that. Part of that is for health reasons, but I won't lie. Part of it is that seafood is just plain expensive.
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That's cool to know. :-) Does the catfish in the grocery store generally say whether it's farmed or "wild"?
 
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It should. More importantly though is that it should also say what country it's from. I would be really, really leary of catfish that wasn't raised in the States.
 
Anyone ever use Green PolkaDot Box food services? I am wondering if that is as close as I can get to the organic packaged food I am accustomed to buying.
 
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I should probably note that it might be a state law that mandates labelling of country-of-origin for catfish. I'm in Alabama, ymmv.
 
I have spent the entire weekend shoveling 5 yards of soil/cowpoo into our two raised beds...they are about 8 x 10 each...it snowed here this weekend so no plantings are in yet...
 
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