Fish and Diabetes
Channel: NutritionFacts.org
Date: 2014-05-02

The relationship between fish consumption and diabetes risk may be due to toxic pollutants that build up in the aquatic food chain.

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This is the first of a 3-part video series on the role industrial pollutants may play in our diabetes epidemic. Stay tuned for Diabetes and Dioxins (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/diabetes-and-dioxins) and Pollutants in Salmon and Our Own Fat (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/pollutants-in-salmon-and-our-own-fat).

More on the changing views surrounding fish oil supplements in Is Fish Oil Just Snake Oil? (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/is-fish-oil-just-snake-oil)

Other foods associated with diabetes risk include processed meat and eggs. See Bacon, Eggs, and Gestational Diabetes During Pregnancy (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/bacon-eggs-and-gestational-diabetes-during-pregnancy-2/) and Eggs and Diabetes (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/eggs-and-diabetes/), while Indian gooseberries and flaxseeds may help (Amla Versus Diabetes, http://nutritionfacts.org/video/amla-versus-diabetes/ and Flaxseed vs. Diabetes, http://nutritionfacts.org/video/flaxseed-vs-diabetes/).

Other videos on how polluted our oceans are include:
    • Fukushima and Radioactivity in Seafood (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/fukushima-and-radioactivity-in-seafood/)
   • Food Sources of Flame Retardant Chemicals (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/food-sources-of-flame-retardant-chemicals/)
    • DDT in Umbilical Cord Blood (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/ddt-in-umbilical-cord-blood/)
    Food Sources of Perfluorochemicals (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/food-sources-of-perfluorochemicals/)
    • Fish Intake Associated with Brain Shrinkage (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/fish-consumption-associated-with-brain-shrinkage/)
    • How Long to Detox from Fish Before Pregnancy (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/how-long-to-detox-from-fish-before-pregnancy/) 

Image Credit: falco via Pixabay, Brian K. Grigsby via Wikimedia, and James Nachtwey via Flickr.

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