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Ten Tasty Fish that You Should Never Eat

Per our previous post, the Monterey Bay Aquarium Seafood Watch has a complete a list of seafood you can eat and those you shouldn't. Many of them you can eat depending on where and how they're caught or whether they are farm raised or not. However, there are some that you should never eat.

Here is an informative slide show of ten of these tasty fish that you never want to eat.

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May 28th 2009 @ 21:00

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Seafood Watch

OK, let's take a break from chicken for a bit to talk about something else

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May 27th 2009 @ 05:03

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Meat-type Chicken Pickin'

Broilers in a Factory Farm

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May 26th 2009 @ 04:15

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Battery Caged Chickin Pickin'

Rows of Hens in Battery Cages

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May 24th 2009 @ 03:05

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More Chicken Pickin'

I was dying to do more research so I ran out to Trader Joe's in Los Gatos and picked up a bag of their brand frozen, boneless, skinless, "iced glazed, minimally processed" chicken thigh meat. "No preservatives, no MSG, no hormones."

BTW, everyone says that they don't use hormones, because it's against federal regulations to use hormones in poultry

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May 21st 2009 @ 03:19

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I'm Gonna do a Little Chicken Pickin'

Actually, I'm going to do a lot but it's going to take a number of posts.

This should be a seemingly easy decision in the market, right? It's reasonably inexpensive, a good source of protein, and doesn't have those pesky fats in meat

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May 21st 2009 @ 02:13

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Ingredients

The single biggest thing that you can do to improve your diet is to read the ingredients on the label. You are especially looking for fats, sugars, and salt.

The food industry adds as much as the above, as well as food coloring, to enhance the flavor so you'll buy their products. But you don't need these ingredients for food to taste good and they add calories and adversely affect your health

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May 19th 2009 @ 15:24

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More Dietary Supplement Doodoo

Dietary Supplements Worth $1.3 Million Condemned and Forfeited to the United States Under Consent Decree

On Monday, May 11, the FDA announced that at the request of the FDA, U.S. Marshals seized more than 23,300 bottles of three dietary supplement products distributed by LG Sciences LLC, of Brighton, Mich. The seized products were marketed for use by body builders and distributed on the Internet and in retail stores under the names “Methyl 1-D,” “Methyl 1-D XL,” and “Formadrol Extreme XL

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May 13th 2009 @ 22:49

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