Fish Nutrition. - High Cholesterol Message Board

JRF · 01-22-2005, 06:40 PM

Hi,
I've seen many people suggest a remarkable benefit in reducing Cholesterol/triglycerides by consuming Fish. I am borderline on both.

Consuming Fish (Say 1/4lb (100 grams) per day), Won't that increase Cholesterol/Fat in our body. Because I heard Cholesterol exist just in Animals including Fish.
I like eating Fish such as Tuna, Macerel and Pomfret but little concerned that it should not increase Cholesterol/Fat. I'm sure many of you might've had a word with your Physician and Dietician about fish consumption. Please share your opinions.
Also please let me know good Fish oil tablets thats natural.

Many thanks.
- JRF.

Lenin · 01-23-2005, 05:43 AM

JRF,

You had me googling "pomfret" because I didn't know the word but I recognized the PICTURE and the alternate name: BUTTERFISH...thanks for expanding my knowledge.

Since the USDA is sketchy on the buttefish content, let me point out a good reason to eat mackerel:
For a 100 gram serving, this fatty fish has
13.9 grams of fat, but the fat is a nice composition consisting of
3.3 grams of SATURATED (primarily 16 carbon chain fat called palmitic acid...coconut oil, if you will that some consider the safest of the saturated lipids),
5.5 grams MONOSATURATED oils (like olive oil.)
3.4 grams POLYUNSATURATED oils including the VERY cardiac helpful
2.5 grams Omega-3 oils making it perhaps the singularly best food in this regard. THat's a LOT of Omega-3's!

The dietary cholesterol of about 70 mg. is not considered to be damaging...that phase of medical thinking has shifted away from this very first approximation attempt to control blood cholesterol.

All things considered, mackerel MIGHT be the best food you can eat!

JRF · 01-23-2005, 09:07 AM

Lenin,
Thanks for the details.
I did stock pomfret already, I will reconsider to use this after some more research. Pomfret is one of my favorite fish.
Mackerel is also my favorite, Im happy about the good stuff with this fish.
thanks.
JRF.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lenin

JRF,

You had me googling "pomfret" because I didn't know the word but I recognized the PICTURE and the alternate name: BUTTERFISH...thanks for expanding my knowledge.

Since the USDA is sketchy on the buttefish content, let me point out a good reason to eat mackerel:
For a 100 gram serving, this fatty fish has
13.9 grams of fat, but the fat is a nice composition consisting of
3.3 grams of SATURATED (primarily 16 carbon chain fat called palmitic acid...coconut oil, if you will that some consider the safest of the saturated lipids),
5.5 grams MONOSATURATED oils (like olive oil.)
3.4 grams POLYUNSATURATED oils including the VERY cardiac helpful
2.5 grams Omega-3 oils making it perhaps the singularly best food in this regard. THat's a LOT of Omega-3's!

The dietary cholesterol of about 70 mg. is not considered to be damaging...that phase of medical thinking has shifted away from this very first approximation attempt to control blood cholesterol.

All things considered, mackerel MIGHT be the best food you can eat!

jtu91952 · 01-23-2005, 10:48 AM

Lenin, what about salmon? Isn't it also a good fish to eat. I hate mackrel.

Uff-Da! · 01-23-2005, 06:18 PM

Is our concern just cholesterol? Or is it CVD? Research in the 1970s with Greenland Eskimos following their traditional diet of fish and marine animals showed extremely low rates of CVD. When they reviewed ten years of records at one hospital, they found not a single case of heart attack. True, part of the low rate of CVD might have been genetic. But the belief was that the omega-3 fatty acids in the diet also played a part.

One of the first recommendations my doctor gave after I continued to have fairly high blood cholesterol readings in spite of an improved diet was to take three one-gram capsules of fish oil per day, or flaxseed oil caps if I was bothered too much by the fish burps. Eating fish often would be better than the capsules. I do take fewer capsules during weeks that I eat fish.

Here are a few of the fish/seafoods listed in a chart in the book The Omega Diet by Artemis P. Simopoulos, M.D. and Jo Robinson:

EPA+DHA/100 grams Fish
2.5 Mackerel
1.4 Chinook (king) salmon
1.2 Atlantic salmon
1.3 Regular tuna fish
0.2 Low-fat tuna fish
1.7 Pacific herring
1.6 Lake trout

One hundred grams is slightly less than half a cup.