Posted on 07/23/2007 10:21:22 PM PDT by neverdem
Two foods once thought healthy — sushi and diet soda — pose grave health threats, according to two studies released yesterday.
The city's Department of Health and Mental Hygiene is launching a campaign against sushi, encouraging women who are pregnant, breastfeeding, or planning to have children in the near future to stop eating raw fish and cut down on their intake of even cooked fish with high levels of mercury. The campaign was prompted by a citywide survey that showed that women of childbearing age in New York had three times the level of mercury in their blood stream as did women in the same age group nationwide.
Meanwhile, a study published online in Circulation, the journal of the American Heart Association, by nine researchers affiliated with Harvard, Tufts, Boston University, and the federal government's National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute from a center at Boston University found that people who drank one or more soft drinks a day, including diet soda, were 48% more likely to have conditions that lead to heart disease. The thousands of participants of the study had a 31% increased likelihood of becoming obese, a 25% increased risk of high blood sugar, and a higher risk for low levels of "good" cholesterol, according to an article in the Los Angeles Times.
The soda industry and the seafood industry lashed out at the studies.
"This study doesn't prove any link between soft drinks and increased risk of heart disease. Its assertions defy the existing body of scientific evidence, as well as common sense," the president of the American Beverage Association, Susan Neely, said of the soda study. "It is scientifically implausible to suggest that diet soft drinks — a beverage that is 99 percent water — cause weight gain or elevated blood pressure."
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I would only eat it at a restaurant that serves puffer fish and has had no casualties!
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Actually, I remember reading that Russians eat sliced raw pork fat as well as other finger food (sliced cucumber etc) as an appetizer with chilled vodka from the book “Inside The Aquarium” by Viktor Suvorov.
sushi-
Japanese; thinly sliced raw fish.
In Japanese cuisine, sushi (寿司, sushi?) is a food made of vinegared rice combined with seafood. Most, but not all, fish used in sushi is un-cooked, but other ingredients may be cooked, blanched, sauteed, or marinated.
I believe there’s a theory (or actual studies) that suggest that fake sweeteners can cause the body to respond with insuline as if it were real sugar.
There’s also this: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2004/06/040630081825.htm
At one time I used to eat sushi pretty often. Now I only do this infrequently. I really think this is unrelated but I haven't had to see the gastroenterologist for years.
There are many varieties of sushi that do not contain fish. Tamago, is egg sushi. Basashi is horse sushi. Kappamaki is cucumber roll sushi and there are many, many others.
This doesn’t bother me. I’ve always avoided diet soda because of the aspartame. I’ve always avoided sushi because the mere thought of eating raw fish makes me sick.
Or more simply,
A Tamago roll,
Basashi roll,
AKappamaki roll
and a Or wrap. If I was making a tradition egg roll, but at the last moment decided I wanted to use corned beef and sauerkraut for a filler instead, would I still call it an egg roll? Of course not.
I don't know what I would call it, but egg roll would be very deceptive.
Yep. That’s what it says in post 44. IF fish is used, it’s usually raw.
I'll drink to that!
It tastes good.
Tuna is fish bait? NOT
Sushi sashimi is also traditionally inspected for worms and other parasites. That is partly why sashimi is so expensive.
Sushi often has fish, but not always, as one of your definition states.
While cooked fish is probably safer, some fish--such as tuna--are tastier raw (opinion, and sort of a moot point as now have stopped eating meat).
Sort of how some people eat cookie dough with raw eggs (unpasteurized) although it could have salmonella.
Sashimi can also be other marine animals.
Pho is the best thing going
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