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Je pense qu’il faudrait arrêter de stresser! Le mercure dans le poisson, les antibiotiques dans la viande, le mazout dans les cigarettes… sans parler de l’air pollué qu’on respire en ville! Il faut vivre et éviter de faire de la nourriture l’exutoire de toutes nos angoisses et recommencer à voir ça comme un vrai plaisir. Ce genre de discours alarmiste, on en a sur tout ce qui peut se manger. Sur ce, vive les sushis! ;)

Bisous!

Cécile

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Je pense que tu peux laisser tout ça de coté pour le moment et privilégier les poissons sauvages qui ne grouillent pas dans un arceau et qui ne sont pas bourrés de poudres alimentaires bizarroïdes :)

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Every 2-3 days there is something new about food…my philosophy is eat everything that please you and try to mix and have from everything a little…
xoxo
Yael Guetta

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On the other side of the pond we hear about mercury in fish too… but those with the highest levels are often larger fish which it’s beneficial to stop fishing so intensively. Smaller fish, just a few times a week = better replenished fish stocks and safe levels of mercury… or that might just be my blasé European take on it!

Eat small fish (sardines/smelt/anchovies) instead of too much salmon/tuna/halibut and get hair analysis done, if you are worried :) it’s much easier when your hair is short :)

This October I studied gastronomy in Paris and one lecture was from a French food contaminants expert from the Institut national de la recherche agronomique. The troubling bit – food contaminants are everywhere, they are inescapable. That goes for Europe just as much as anywhere else in the world. His recommendation – eat a varied diet from a variety of producers. An example: if you love tinned sardines, don’t buy the same brand every single time. Reduce your potential exposure to any one source of contaminants by varying not only your diet, but the source of your ingredients. You can also get most of your fish intake from low-mercury fish, such as salmon, shrimp, sole, and anchovies.

Salut,

Les poissons, c’est un peu mon truc (slurps ronron) donc je me permets de rajouter mon grain de sel au débat.
Sur ce site: http://www.seafoodwatch.org/ il y a la liste des poissons verts, oranges et rouges (en gros c’est une liste pour savoir quels poissons on peut manger, en fonction de plein de criteres ecologiques et santé). Il y a meme une application, pour les mollusques qui ont l’iphone greffé au bras.

Concernant les sushis, c’est évident que c’est mal (et pas que a cause du mercure). Et les connards qui disent « on s’en fout, tout est deja pollué alors pourquoi faire des efforts? »…je sais pas quoi leur répondre tellement l’argument est bete. Car c’est évident que 1) oui, les efforts individuels peuvent changer le monde et 2) c’est pas si compliqué que ca (ne me faites pas croire que votre vie perd tout son sens si vous ne pouvez pas manger votre sushi quotidien)

Cordialement,

Hi Brie! Where is this fish print from? It’s really beautiful!

After reading some articles about life in NYC including Garance’s, I start to think that you girls/women in NYC are completely nuts. ok, I don’t say that everybody in new york is freak but I feel like more than in other cities – in Europe at least – there’s this urge, race for being perfect. Have the perfect glow, the perfect skin, great manicure, white teeths, blow up, be skinny, toned, have a great job, a great guy, a rich husband, juicing, coloning (eeewwww !), gluten -freeing, etc. Hey guys, do you actually live sometimes??? Breathe? I mean of course if in the USA the food process is not controlled and full of GMO and nasty proteins you will get this shit in your stomach that will be reflected in your appearance, sking and mood…

Before I really loved NYC and dreamed to live there : everything seemed to be possible there, the energy ! Now, I realize that in France or in general in Europe I am able to live very well, get a descent pay, I got medical care, security, able to go on holidays, eat GOOD and healthy FOOD, without all this shit inside, I can grab fruits and vegetable pretty easily and still at a reasonable price… And more importantly I don’t have this pressure for looking perfect all the time, this pressure to succeed and make tons of money (in the US if I understand, the minimum services like social and health care, hospitals, education, etc. are very expensive).

So first BREATH a bit. The stress comes fist from your crazy environment. It’s scary to some extent. New york is not a good city to live well : it’s not for old people and families with children (unless you’revery rich). It’s too fast-paced and hectic. But what for ?! So of course dear that you’re stressed !
Fish is of course very good because it TASTES good first (not a question of diet). Don’t eat to much though because the seas are extremely polluted and the flesh of the fish can be toxic then. Especially crude ones like sushis ! But be careful from the origin of the fish too : avoid those from americas and China seas, where there are fed with proteins.

(if you can read French, see this one from M le Monde from the former French beauty Vogue editor and now blogger and freelance writer : http://marecreation.blog.lemonde.fr/2014/11/07/dans-les-coulisses-du-special-beaute-de-m/) ,

Il est vrai qu’il devient difficile de « surveiller » efficacement son alimentation. Si l’on pouvait être maraîcher dans un coin paumé jamais exposé à aucun trouble chimique, pisciculteur avec une eau saine et bien… Je pense que l’on aurait plus aucune question à se poser. Aucun stress; malheureusement (pour nos assiettes et notre santé) ce n’est pas le cas. Heureusement pour nous, nous n’aurions pas tes si belles photos.
La seule chose à faire et de faire de son mieux pour avoir un corps et un esprit sain malgré tous les scandales sanitaires qui pullules.
Take care

To answer two of your questions:

1. The US government is definitely not doing enough to cut emmissions. Or to actually look at what get the FDA approval. Or to check what is allowed to be put into cosmetics or perfumes. Or… well, the list goes on.

2. Using fish in your diet as your main source of protein and nutrients – that doesn’t sound like a good idea. Unless you live in a small village by the sea where fisherman bring in fresh fish every day – hey, wait a minute, they usually have to sell as much as possible and they don’t bring enough home to make a living… Don’t start worrying about your mercury level, start looking into the environmental issues connected to eating fish!

Of course you can all do as you want – but your food is not just about what you put into your body…
And yes, I belive that everybody can make a difference.

I was about to mention Seafood Watch as well. Glad this website was mentioned. It’s good to be concerned about food safety with respect to oneself, but it’s also good to be concerned about food with respect to the environment.

Moi je mange ni viande ni poisson. Si c’est pas le mercure, c’est les antibiotiques, les conditions d’élevage horribles (piscine remplie de poux de mer et de déjection), la pêche intensive qui ravage l’écosystème, il y a mille raisons de ne pas en manger malheureusement!
La carence en protéines ça n’existe pas dans les pays industrialisés (les protéines doivent constituer 15% de ton alimentation quotidienne + on fabrique nous-mêmes quasi toutes les protéines donc pas de panique).
De plus, tous les poissons ne contiennent pas d’omega 3 et on a de l’iode dans le sel de table.
Donc tu ne risques rien à diminuer ta conso de poisson ^^

Out shopping recently I saw a little Seafood Watch booklet on a checkout counter, I was amazed at all the new concerns. I try to eat as healthy as I can most of the time with the best products and limit processed foods. Moderation is the best but not always how it goes.
Thanks for the post and brining new information to light.