Is Eating Fish The Best Way To Get Your Omega3 Fatty Acids?

Now that’s a good question. We all need more omega3 fatty acids in our diet, but should we eat fish. Fish is contaminated with mercury.

And if you shouldn’t eat fish how do you get that Omega3 in your diet?

You can get Omega3 fatty acids from some plant sources, but by far the best place to find good quantities of the right type of Omega3 fats if fish.

But surely there’s a problem with eating fish, because we all know that now fish is contaminated with mercury.

The EPA says that there is mercury contamination in all fish.

And you don’t want to be getting mercury in your body do you? It’s not something that your body gets rid of, and it’s not good for children in particular.

But notwithstanding, the EPA doesn’t tell us to remove fish from our diet. Fish is ok in small quantities and they do offer some guidelines for how much, and what type, you should eat.

2 serves a week is fine, but for children and pregnant women they do offer some more guidelines about the types of fish to avoid.

Pregnant women and children ought to avoid eating shark, swordfish, king mackerel, or tilefish. These fish are high mercury fish.

But it’s unnecessary to eliminate fish from your diet. You can eat it, in small amounts.

But there’s another problem before we conclude that we all ought to be eating fish for our Omega3 fatty acids. Fish is scarce and getting scarcer. Have you seen the price of fish lately? It’s really expensive.

And it’s ok to eat it in small quantities, but if you’re just eating it for those good fats there are better ways. Of course if you love eating fish then no problem. Eat it.

And there is still mercury in fish, albeit in small amounts, and there is a solution to getting your Omega3 that doesnt involve eating fish, that is cheaper than buying fish a couple of times a week, and overcomes the problem with mercury contamination.

Use fish oil supplements. You can get Omega3 fatty acid supplements. They contain fish oil, and they are extremely clean, sourcing their oil from fish that live in the cleanest ocean in the world, the southern ocean, and then this is put through a molecular distillation process until contaminants are undetectable.

There’s no binding standards for levels of contamination allowed if fish oil capsules, and some are cleaner than others.

So unless you really love fish, if youre just eating it for the Omega3 fatty acids it contain, youre better off using the best fish oil supplements on the market. Use them daily to get your good fats. Its cheaper than eating fish, and you arent getting any mercury at all.But if you love fish eat it, just be careful.

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