Oh, blueberries are lovely (as long as they're not overripe and mushy) (and I enjoy them on cereal, too - they're easy to spoon up along with the cereal). They're also really absurdly good for you. :-)
Yeah, I've been reading the SuperFoods Rx books and making some changes to my eating habits accordingly. There are only a couple I think I will have a hard time with and most have sidekicks that I like well enough. Salmon is my hardest. I don't like anything but canned tuna and they don't recommend you eat more then one can of tuna a week so I need to find a fish oil suppliment I guess.
*nod* Part of it is that the larger the fish is, the larger the fish it's eating is. So if you have a sardine, it has one sardine's worth of bioaccumulated mercury. But if you have a theoretical fish that eats 12 sardines a day, and you eat it after it's been alive for 3 years or so, most of the time the fish you're eating is not 12,816 times the size of a sardine. If you're eating a fish that eats a fish that lives on a regular diet of sardines, it's even worse. So, the higher up you go in the fishy food chain, the more mercury the fish has incidentally eaten along with its daily calories. The lifespan of larger fish obviously increases this problem (if it's been eating other fishies for 25 years instead of 3, then it's had the chance to accumulate 8 times as much mercury). Ah, bioaccumulation.
Salt is the other issue with tinned fish, but that's at least printed on the label.
Enjoy your yummy healthies. :-)
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Is the problem with limiting canned tuna unique to tuna or is it all canned fish? It's an issue of mercury isn't it?
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Salt is the other issue with tinned fish, but that's at least printed on the label.
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