Tilapia is bad for you!

[theeedude]

http://www.newswise.com/articles/view/542399/

Newswise ? Farm-raised tilapia, one of the most highly consumed fish in America, has very low levels of beneficial omega-3 fatty acids and, perhaps worse, very high levels of omega-6 fatty acids, according to new research from Wake Forest University School of Medicine.

I guess I gotta be much more selective with my seafood and stick to salmon.
I used to get "catch of the day" at work cafeteria, which I am pretty sure is Tilapia. Maybe I will try to convince the caterer to switch to trout or something.

 

[sash1]

Farm-raised tilapia, one of the most highly consumed fish in America, has very low levels of beneficial omega-3 fatty acids and, perhaps worse, very high levels of omega-6 fatty acids, according to new research from Wake Forest University School of Medicine.

WOOOOOT!

 

[SociallyChallenged]

Hm, that's interesting. I wish they could give a sort of ratio of omega 6 to omega 3. That would be way more helpful. I haven't eaten tilapia... ever, I don't think. Weird.

EDIT: Aha, they did. 11:1, eek.

 

[jaynonymous]

Yikes. Good thing I don't like much seafood

 

[SociallyChallenged]

Also, just to add: it seems that unnaturally fed animals have an extremely high omega 6 to omega 3 ratio. Take beef for example. Grass-fed bovines have a much higher omega 3 to omega 6 ratio when compared to corn/wheat-fed bovines. Tilapia obviously don't eat grains in the wild and that plays with the natural balance. I wonder what the ratio of wild tilapia is.

 

[EvilYoda]

Anybody who eats fish regularly should know that tilapia's about the most boring, bland and tasteless fish out there too...my reason for not eating it

 

[funks]

Originally posted by: EvilYoda
Anybody who eats fish regularly should know that tilapia's about the most boring, bland and tasteless fish out there too...my reason for not eating it

Deep fry the damned thing and it's good Sprinkle on some mono-sodium glutamate, black peppers..

 

[z0mb13]

Originally posted by: SociallyChallenged
Also, just to add: it seems that unnaturally fed animals have an extremely high omega 6 to omega 3 ratio. Take beef for example. Grass-fed bovines have a much higher omega 3 to omega 6 ratio when compared to corn/wheat-fed bovines. Tilapia obviously don't eat grains in the wild and that plays with the natural balance. I wonder what the ratio of wild tilapia is.

YES! this is exactly why it is worth it to PAY more for your food! buy grass feed beef and wild fish. It is better to pay more for food than pay out a lot for health costs.

 

[Kaido]

Originally posted by: funks

Originally posted by: EvilYoda
Anybody who eats fish regularly should know that tilapia's about the most boring, bland and tasteless fish out there too...my reason for not eating it

Deep fry the damned thing and it's good Sprinkle on some mono-sodium glutamate, black peppers..

I was gonna say, I love Tilapia. I have some seafood breading that I use when I bake it in the oven and it turns out great, or even pan-fried with kosher salt, black pepper, and some lemon juice...

 

[nervegrind3r]

Originally posted by: Kaido

Originally posted by: funks

Originally posted by: EvilYoda
Anybody who eats fish regularly should know that tilapia's about the most boring, bland and tasteless fish out there too...my reason for not eating it

Deep fry the damned thing and it's good Sprinkle on some mono-sodium glutamate, black peppers..

I was gonna say, I love Tilapia. I have some seafood breading that I use when I bake it in the oven and it turns out great, or even pan-fried with kosher salt, black pepper, and some lemon juice...

hell yeah, I love it too. Who would have thought fresh white fish was bad, well worse than others?

Well, I eat eel whenever I can, and im not giving that up, its my favorite.

 

[RagingBITCH]

Everything in moderation. Besides, it's "research". "Research" has also shown potatoes, orange juice, water in bottles all cause cancer, among the many other widespread hysteria the media blows everything up as.

If you like it, eat it. I'm not saying go out and eat a fvcking Whopper Value Meal everyday because you like it, but you get the idea.

 

[Red Dawn]

Good thing I prefer Haddock.

 

[Megatomic]

Originally posted by: Red Dawn
Good thing I prefer Haddock.

Salmon here.

 

[Red Dawn]

Originally posted by: Megatomic

Originally posted by: Red Dawn
Good thing I prefer Haddock.

Salmon here.

I meant I prefer Haddock over Tilapia but over all Salmon FTW. I use Haddock in the form of artificial crab in a lot of my lunches and in salads for the Omega 3 fat and for the added protien.

 

[ElFenix]

farm raised everything seems to suck. wild salmon is much better for you than farmed salmon, for example.

 

[ibex333]

There are people who always eat healthy, exercise, don't smoke drink or do drugs. And then they suddenly die of some random horrible disease at a fairly young age. Then there are those who do the exact opposite in every possible way and live to be a hundred. The moral of the story? Let's exercise and eat right, but if we are going to listen to every damn scientist and researcher out there, we might as well hang ourselves right now, and get it over with.

All my life I hear people saying that something is bad for you. Sometimes it makes good sense, but more often it's plain ridiculous. If we listen to everything there's hardly anythign left to eat or do.

I used to enjoy cup noodles, then the newspapers said they contain bad MSG, so I had to stop.
I used to enjoy pasta, but some sources said it will make me fat. I love fried potatoes, but fried foods are bad for you...
They recently said on the news that the mattress I sleep on, the teddy bear I used to play with when I was a kid, and the seats in my car contain harmful synthetic fibers that cause cancer. I wanted to buy a "hybrid" car, because I want to save on gas, and prevent global warming, but then some researchers said on a website that hybrid cars can cause cancer because the electric motors generate certain "fields" that are harmful to humans. And then there's always cell phones and microwaves!

Bodybuilders take creatin and whey protein powder to build muscle, but there are researchers that say this stuff causes cancer and will do other bad things to you in the long run.
I cant eat meat without veggies, so I love to have tomatoes with my meat.. Well, they recently said that tomatoes have salmonella on them. I used to prefer beef over chicken, but they show horrible movies on the internet about how the cattle is slaughtered and how the meat is being "processed" before it is being sold to me. After watching such movies, I doubt many people will keep eating beef, chicken, or pork. It has been said that flax oil is good for you, so I bought some. But then a researcher said it will cause prostate cancer in males. I started eating fish cause everyone said it was healthy, but then the researches came up with the idea that many kinds of ocean fish contains mercury that will kill my brain. I often buy telapia in my local Costco, because it's not too high in fat, is cheap, and is a good food overall... And now I see this article here... Is this enough or need I keep going?

I try to eat everything in moderation, exercise and get enough sleep, but if I listen to every university school of medicine, I wont have anything left to eat and I'll go broke only buying what little is left that is still considered healthy. (for now)

 

[SociallyChallenged]

Originally posted by: ibex333
There are people who always eat healthy, exercise, don't smoke drink or do drugs. And then they suddenly die of some random horrible disease at a fairly young age. Then there are those who do the exact opposite in every possible way and live to be a hundred. The moral of the story? Let's exercise and eat right, but if we are going to listen to every damn scientist and researcher out there, we might as well hang ourselves right now, and get it over with.

All my life I hear people saying that something is bad for you. Sometimes it makes good sense, but more often it's plain ridiculous. If we listen to everything there's hardly anythign left to eat or do.

I used to enjoy cup noodles, then the newspapers said they contain bad MSG, so I had to stop.
I used to enjoy pasta, but some sources said it will make me fat. I love fried potatoes, but fried foods are bad for you...
They recently said on the news that the mattress I sleep on, the teddy bear I used to play with when I was a kid, and the seats in my car contain harmful synthetic fibers that cause cancer. I wanted to buy a "hybrid" car, because I want to save on gas, and prevent global warming, but then some researchers said on a website that hybrid cars can cause cancer because the electric motors generate certain "fields" that are harmful to humans. And then there's always cell phones and microwaves!

Bodybuilders take creatin and whey protein powder to build muscle, but there are researchers that say this stuff causes cancer and will do other bad things to you in the long run.
I cant eat meat without veggies, so I love to have tomatoes with my meat.. Well, they recently said that tomatoes have salmonella on them. I used to prefer beef over chicken, but they show horrible movies on the internet about how the cattle is slaughtered and how the meat is being "processed" before it is being sold to me. After watching such movies, I doubt many people will keep eating beef, chicken, or pork. It has been said that flax oil is good for you, so I bought some. But then a researcher said it will cause prostate cancer in males. I started eating fish cause everyone said it was healthy, but then the researches came up with the idea that many kinds of ocean fish contains mercury that will kill my brain. I often buy telapia in my local Costco, because it's not too high in fat, is cheap, and is a good food overall... And now I see this article here... Is this enough or need I keep going?

I try to eat everything in moderation, exercise and get enough sleep, but if I listen to every university school of medicine, I wont have anything left to eat and I'll go broke only buying what little is left that is still considered healthy. (for now)

This post sounds kinda like a random rant, which I can understand. The news and media say whatever gets people's attention even if the research doesn't really say that. However, I'd like to free up creatine's name There's no research saying that it has or ever will cause any form of cancer.

Eat what you want. However, eating things that aren't processed will be much healthier for you and you can avoid most of the "bad for you" stigmas. When you buy meat, buy wild or grass-fed. These things are pretty simple and there is a solution for everything. Exercise and diet help extend your life, but really your genetics are going to dictate when you die (unless an accident occurs). Live while you can. Enjoy a good quality of life. That's really all you can ask for.

 

[dakels]

Comparing Salmon and Tilapia are completely different for most people. They have hugely varying texture and taste and cost, like comparing pork butt to steak. It's really not surprising that even a few results show tilapia is not that healthy compared to other fish. It's a crap eating, super densely raised farm fish that is fed mostly corn I think. It's easy and cheap. Tilapia is common and hearty and as such you can get it (in my area stores) very cheap, fresh, and even live. It has a very mild, neutral taste that basically adopts the flavor of whatever you season it with which will always be popular. The average diet relies on heavy favorings to cover a mediocre produce. Great, natural produce speaks for itself in taste and often healthiness but of course economic and environmental factors can make this difficult to acquire. Therefore you have tilapia, iceberg lettuce, dry tomatoes, which you cover in seasoning and dressing to drown out their mediocrity.

 

[irishScott]

Originally posted by: ElFenix
farm raised everything seems to suck. wild everything is much better for you than farmed everything, for example.

Fixed. Whenever I feel like fish (which is pretty often), I buy the good stuff.

As for tilapia, it can be damn good if prepared right.

 

[dealmaster00]

Originally posted by: senseamp
http://www.newswise.com/articles/view/542399/

Newswise ? Farm-raised tilapia, one of the most highly consumed fish in America, has very low levels of beneficial omega-3 fatty acids and, perhaps worse, very high levels of omega-6 fatty acids, according to new research from Wake Forest University School of Medicine.

I guess I gotta be much more selective with my seafood and stick to salmon.
I used to get "catch of the day" at work cafeteria, which I am pretty sure is Tilapia. Maybe I will try to convince the caterer to switch to trout or something.

This is why it's pretty obvious it's low in omega-3 and high in omega-6. Farm raised fish in general isn't very good for you.

 

[Auric]

The demand for cheap mock food is disturbing. I would much prefer to have high quality food less often than the reverse. For example, aforementioned wild or free-range sources as opposed to factory-farmed. So the supposed price premium for more natural, healthier, and tastier food is largely irrelevant. Indeed, whatever that costs should be considered the baseline whereas the mock stuff is under-cutting it at the explicit expense of said health, taste, and other factors including, some argue, morality. And for what? So the average schmuck can pretend they are living high on the hog, as 'twere, by eating fake steak every day?

 

[Invisible Evil]

I eat tilapia about once a week, broiled with lemon on top, I will not discontinue this based on this study.
Next week it will be perfectly healthy. I use common sense when I eat.

 

[TallBill]

I get my EFA's from a bottle

 

[irishScott]

Originally posted by: Auric
The demand for cheap mock food is disturbing. I would much prefer to have high quality food less often than the reverse. For example, aforementioned wild or free-range sources as opposed to factory-farmed. So the supposed price premium for more natural, healthier, and tastier food is largely irrelevant. Indeed, whatever that costs should be considered the baseline whereas the mock stuff is under-cutting it at the explicit expense of said health, taste, and other factors including, some argue, morality. And for what? So the average schmuck can pretend they are living high on the hog, as 'twere, by eating fake steak every day?

There's a reason imitation crab meat was invented.

 

[Auric]

Indubitably! However, painted pressed pollack is still edible wild fish after all. Whereas factory-farming produces dodgy imitations of the critters themselves.