Over the years I have talked to a number of people who are concerned about their health but just don't like to take pills or capsules with the only exception being absolutely necessary medications.
But they are willing to eat any diet if you can give them good evidence to show that it is healthy. For instance they'll eat salmon every day but refuse to take fish oil capsules.
So anyway I happened to sit down for some white wine and a bite to eat at a Coral Gables joint (which I would recommend for excellent and reasonably priced seafood and wine if you are ever in Coral Gables)
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Here I had always have eaten excellent seafood, but I have always eaten the delicious but not omega 3 endowed local tropical fish (grouper, yellow tail, dolphin etc).
The waitress mentioned they had trout on special. I generally have avoided trout in Miami because fish to me has to taste fresh. So I somehow just don't trust trout in Miami. So the manger came over and explained to me that this was farm bred trout flown in from Idaho and that it was even higher in omega 3s than salmon.
<Wild fish are not richer in omega-3 fish oils than farm-raised varieties. Farm-raised fish such as salmon and trout won't grow without omega-3 fatty acids in their diet, so fish farmers add it to the fish meal. Farmed catfish, however, do not need omega-3 fatty acids, so farm-raised catfish tends to have less omega-3s than wild catfish. In the wild, fish get their omega-3s from algae, plankton and other fish that they may eat.>
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Farm-raised Idaho trout rate "best choice"
By Mary Ann Reese
One of the most prominent environmental watchdogs for fish, the Seafood Watch Program, available at the Monterey Bay Aquarium's website, today keeps Idaho's farm-raised rainbow trout on its "best choice" list, thanks in part to efforts of Ron Hardy, director of the UI Hagerman Fish Culture Experiment Station, and UI Extension Educator Gary Fornshell of Twin Falls.
Restaurant chefs and citizens nationwide use this list to guide their buying/eating decisions. In 2003 the list moved rainbow trout to a "proceed with caution" category because of worries that farmed trout could spread disease to wild trout, and due to suspicion about environmental effects of trout farming.
Concerned-since Idaho is the biggest U.S. producer of farm-raised rainbow trout-Hardy and Fornshell joined other U.S. scientists in providing research documenting that disease outbreaks and other effects of farm-raised trout on wild populations are minimal. Hardy's team also documented trout farming's "tremendous improvements" in feeds and waste collection practices that lower the amount of phosphorus and total solids in farm discharge water.
The result Rainbow trout moved to the list's "best choice" category.
Omega-3 Hardy's research also confirms that farm-raised trout maintain high levels of omega-3 fatty acids, believed to help lower rates of heart disease and prevent cancer, among other health benefits. The omega-3 content of farm-raised trout fillets depends somewhat on the feed, but it averages 22 percent of fillet fat-comparable to that of its wild cousins. Both wild and farm-raised rainbow trout rate among the top fish for quantities of omega-3 oils, in league with salmon, tuna, sardines, and anchovies.
See the seafood watch report at mbayaq.org/cr/seafoodwatch.asp. Contact Hardy at rhardy@uidaho.edu.
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And the trout was off the scale delicious. For the pill phobic person who wants omega 3, I recommend trying Idaho farm raised trout for some variety to salmon.
As I am not pill phobic, I'll do both. Take the fish oil capsules and eat the trout.
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