8 Reasons To Avoid Eating Salmon Fish

[Manthrii]

 

We’ve all been told that salmon, packed with heart-healthy omega-3s and belly-flattening protein, is a great way to get strong, lean and healthy. That’s why you’d better sit down before you read the next sentence.

Salmon makes you fat.

Most salmon, that is. As I built my Zero Belly Diet program—with a test panel that lost an average of 20 pounds in 6 weeks—I focused it around the lose your belly effects of omega-3s and other healthy fats, and revolutionary new science about specific foods that turn “off” your fat genes.

But what I discovered in my research—and why I advised my test panelists to avoid anything but wild salmon—was some really disturbing information: More than 90 percent of the fresh salmon eaten in this country comes from giant fish farms, not from nature. In fact, Atlantic salmon is 99 percent farmed, naturally white, and fed pellets that contain pink dye. Yuck! And unlike the proteins and fats that truly do help us lose weight, farmed salmon can have the opposite effect.

Here are 8 Salmon Shockers we discovered while researching the book—and which fat-melting alternatives to order instead. And check out Zero Belly Diet below to turn off your fat genes and lose weight while eating the foods you love!

 

 

SALMON SHOCKER #8 It’s been painted pink!

Wild salmon is naturally rose-tinted, a delicious side effect of the shrimp and krill in its diet. But because farmed salmon subsists on feed pellets made from ground fish and soy, its flesh is naturally beige. So salmon farmers add dyes to their feed to change the fish’s color from the inside. They can even use a convenient color chart, like the paper strips used to select paint colors in hardware stores, called the SalmoFan. It allows farmers to choose shades of flesh between pale salmon pink (#20) and bright orange-red (#34). Over the last several years, consumer lawsuits have forced some supermarkets to put “color added” labels on the packaging of farmed salmon.

 

 

SALMON SHOCKER #7 It’s eating chicken poop!

To save money, salmon farmers add bulking agents like poultry litter (that’s poop) and hydrolyzed chicken feathers to the feed. Speaking of poop, see how tilapia is worse than bacon.

 

 

SALMON SHOCKER #6 It’s packed with bad-for-you fat!

The more omega-3 and the less omega-6, the better. Finding a balance between the two is key, since one fights inflammation while the other tends to promote it. Wild Alaskan salmon is an omega-3 goldmine; just 3 ounces provide 1,253 mg of the stuff and just 114 mg of omega-6s. Farmed salmon has even more omega-3s, providing 1,705 mg in a 3-ounce serving. So far so good, right? But feed makers save money by bulking up the fish’s food pellets with soy, which increases the ratio of omega-6 acids. As a result, farmed salmon has 1,900 mg of omega-6s. So instead of pushing your 3:6 ratio in the right direction, you’re actually taking a step backwards.

 

 

SALMON SHOCKER #5 It’s lacking critical vitamins.

Vitamin D, a crucial nutrient that leads to bone health, and can also reduce your risk of heart attack, is one fourth in farmed fish what it is in wild salmon. Speaking of vitamins, see how to get your supplements without taking pills.

 

 

SALMON SHOCKER #4 It’s tainted with Agent Orange.

Analyzing 700 salmon bought in stores from Edinburgh, Scotland to Seattle, Washington, a team led by Ronald Hites, PhD, of Indiana University, found that the farmed product contained up to 8 times more PCBs—cancer-causing industrial chemicals that were banned in 1979—than the wild variety. Other chemicals found in farmed fish include dioxins from herbicides (the most famous being Agent Orange).

 

 

SALMON SHOCKER #3 It has lice!

Salmon farms attract a disgusting marine insect called sea lice; to get rid of these parasites, farmers spike their feed with a marine toxin called Slice, or ermamectin benzoate. The pesticide is also used to rid sick trees of pine beetles. When administered to rats and dogs, it causes tremors, spinal deterioration and muscle atrophy.

 

 

SALMON SHOCKER #2 And tapeworms!

In Chile, where the majority of our salmon is raised, baby salmon (called smolt) are raised in freshwater lakes rather than in hatcheries, where native species can pass parasites to the juvenile salmon before they are taken to the ocean. Several cases of intestinal parasites in humans have been traced back to raw farmed salmon.

 

 

SALMON SHOCKER #1 Health experts won’t eat it!

Due to the concentration of contaminants in the salmon, Hites and his team concluded that “the majority of farm-raised salmon should be consumed at one meal or less per month.” In the case of Scottish salmon, they recommended that those who wish to avoid cancer-causing chemicals have no more than three farmed-salmon meals a year.

 

 

 

EAT THIS, NOT FARMED SALMON!

So which fish should you buy? Wild salmon is the best possible choice. Ask your fish monger where your cut came from, and don’t order the salmon at a restaurant unless you know it’s wild. (Hint: Since commercial fishing of the species is currently prohibited in the US, the “Atlantic” salmon on your plate is likely farmed unless it has been imported.) Or try an alternative: For a salmon-like flavor and a healthy dose of omega-3s

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Costco wild caught

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Red Snapper

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Red Snapper

 

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