Is Seafood Healthy?

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Is seafood healthy? Although I think there are some theoretical health benefits to seafood, I choose not to eat it.

I'm really interested to hear what you think - do you eat seafood? Let me know below.

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[cookymnstr123]

Hi, thanks for the info. You mentioned Kelp as an alternative. Where would you be able to get it and how would you consume it? thanks.

[healthyvegan]

@cookymnstr123 you can get it as dried strands, which you can put into the cooking water of beans or soup, then blend it in or take it out. Or you can get granules to put in your salt grinder with coarse sea salt, or powder that you can mix up with fine sea salt. There's also Herbamare, that puts kelp in with dried vegetables and salt to make a seasoned salt. Another viewer mentioned kelp noodles, which are also great, but you need a good sauce and they take a bit of getting used to ;)

[BlackIsOut]

what about seaweed???

[healthyvegan]

@BlackIsOut excellent source of iodine and minerals - spirulina and chlorella have very easily-digested EFA's too. Are you wondering about contamination of seaweeds? They don't have the fat content, which is where the heavy metals accumulate. So far they're ok :)

[Christy3C]

flax seeds are an excellent source of omega 3. Just grind them up in a coffee grinder or food processer. I add them to oatmeal, or cereal. they have a very nutty taste.

[healthyvegan]

@Christy3C my favorite non-fish source of omega-3 :)

[Qilin93]

Sadly, we live in polluted world whether we swim in the sea or breathe the air. I think we're either at a point or fast approaching a point where what is truly 'healthy' is becoming a grey area, regardless of whether the pure form of the food is or is not.

[running90away]

Since becoming vegan, I was scared that I might be missing an important nutrient found in fish since everybody I know can't stop talking about it even the nutritionist I USED to go to (and she's the same nutritionist who was against me going vegan heh :/ needless to say it was the last time I saw her) but your video helped me get over that fear. Thanks a lot Heather!! I'm really appreciating your videos on meat stuff!

A plant based diet is the healthiest diet you can get. Period.

[taraskydance]

The FDA are way behind the times if they never put this warning out before 2004!DO NOT eat coastal fish and in partucualr crustations,.. 1

They are BOttOM feeders filtering thru all the dirt etc on the ocean floor  Deep sea fish is far safer, KNOW were your foods are coming from ,.. is ,most important,. not China Japan, etc,. and Buying from Israel is funding the wars,.. where there are wars there are chemicals and radiations ,. same rule applies to hugh tech gadgets like ur phones etc,.

[liviecwh]

I would probably eat seafood if the waters were clean and it were sustainably obtained... sadly I can't imagine both of those happening any time soon :-/

[MsActor2009]

Avocado is high in Omega-3 fatty acids, plus several other vitamins and minerals.

[ritaturner]

As we eat the food off the top of the food chain there is no control on what it is we actually eat. If we can eat carbon, nitrogen, metals, sunlight and can produce the enzymes.... Actually it has been shown to be possible. There were/are living examples of men and women who lived/live on air.

[ShopaholicWithNoCash]

The world would be a much better place if everyone was vegan. <3

[Sucrahey]

@natew1990 its more like we care about our health

[natew1990]

you vegans and vegetarians are so paranoid

[cookymnstr123]

@healthyvegan Thank you sooo- much for the info. I will try to look for these kelp products esp since we are trying to cut down our salt intake.