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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Soda is one thing, but when they go after sushi, sashimi, and sake, this means war.
Never understood why some folks would want to eat fish bait.
I don’t know about heart disease, but I’ve recently quit diet soda, and lost about 10 pounds. I don’t know why, it’s diet! Perhaps its less sodium, so less water weight, but I feel alot better without it.
It’s delicious! Not all sushi has fish in it. California Rolls are very good as well, and contain cooked crab.
The thought police are out in force again. It’s all the fault of whatever crappy ‘science’ they can come up with.
Some level of government needs more funding and is attempting to get it by alarming the sheeple. Gee whiz.
CSIPI is behind this, trust me.
I could live without sushi (but not Susie), but I sure would miss my Vietnamese spring rolls and pho.
I think a bowl of pho is one of the best meals around. Cheap, delicious and pretty healthy.
If no one ever ate anything, we’d all be safe and live forever...
Aw, hell. I'm just gonna start smoking again.
How about raw pork sushi for kicks?
raw eel?
The soda thing is interesting. I believe it shows the market for soda has not only declined, but is now made up of a larger percentage of those who don’t watch what they eat. It isn’t the soda, it’s soda’s consumers.
“cut down on their intake of even cooked fish with high levels of mercury”
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Not all sushi is raw, which may come as a surprise to some, and you can make an entire meal from cooked food. Eel (unagi and anago) is always served cooked,
(from internet)
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