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By the way, doctor: a very fishy diet.

Publication: Harvard Health Letter
Publication Date: 01-MAY-09 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

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By the way, doctor

A very fishy diet

Q. I read in an earlier issue that one of the nutrition experts eats five servings of fish a week. Why so much? And isn't there a risk from the contaminants?

A. I believe research has shown that eating fish has a variety of benefits, but for me, the science came much later than my love of fish did.

I grew up on a potato farm on the East End of Long Island. My childhood home there was on a farm on Bunker Hill that overlooked the ocean about three-quarters of a mile away. A fish factory that processed menhaden, or bunker fish, a small sardine-like fish, into oil and fish meal was about a mile away. In fact, this Bunker Hill * not the more famous...

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