Eating small fish whole can prolong life expectancy, a Japanese study finds

Medical Xpress / Nagoya University / Public Health Nutrition ^ | June 13, 2024 | Chinatsu Kasahara et al

[ConservativeMind]

Whole small fish, with organs intact, had just 1-3 times a month, reduced the all-cause mortality (death) rate by 32%, in women. In men, it approached significance with a similar benefit, but not enough men participated.

[ConservativeMind]

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[rhinohunter]

Great. I’ll just eat at the bait shop for now on…

[PeterPrinciple]

effective strategy to reduce the risk of mortality among women.

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I don’t think that is possible.

[Libloather]

It's the sawse. Opens the pipes.

[Nifster]

Love that crunchy calcium

[GenXPolymath]

Could explain some of the benefits of the Mediterranean diet. Spanish and Italian cuisine both have whole small fish in it. Tapas of pan fried sardines for example chicetti of sauted sardines same same.

[crusty old prospector]

Yea, I’ll take a dozen shiners to go.

[GenXPolymath]

Most Japanese are lactose intolerant as most Asians are. The practice of eating fish bones and poultry bones is widespread throughout Asia for this very reason.

[crosdaddy]

rock on fellow Dines lovers.

[spel_grammer_an_punct_polise]

Who would want to live with a woman with whole, dead fish-breath?

Sardines? YUCK! ;-)

[devere]

Eating sardines at least once a month seems easy enough.

[Leaning Right]

> Eating small fish whole can prolong life expectancy <

Okay then. On my shopping list for tomorrow:

[Veto!]

Tonight is fish night and I’m really bored with salmon so having sardines. Nice coincidence. They have tons of calcium in those little bones.

Who cares whether they taste yucky, even with avocado mayo and fresh celery mixed in.

[elpadre]

I eat whole sardines on crackers out of a can often. Does that count? I am in my nineties.

[PeterPrinciple]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fish_Heads_(song)

It is the most requested song on the Dr. Demento radio show, and a music video for the song made in 1980 was in regular rotation on MTV.[2][3] The song was featured on Barnes & Barnes’ 1982 Fish Heads (Greatest Hits) 12-inch on Rhino Records.[4]

The lyrics are an absurdist celebration of fish heads, describing them in the high-pitched chorus as “roly poly” and delicious to eat. The verses describe various things they (mostly) cannot do such as play baseball, wear sweaters, play the drums, and drink cappuccino in Italian restaurants with oriental women.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-K2DZojWi0

[lee martell]

I would be interested in eating lightly fried small fish, as with Smelts. No one sells Fried Smelts far as I know, so I’d have to buy sone yellow corn meal and fry them myself.
I may give some thought to eating them Tail First.
That way, I don’t have to see the Smelt eyes “looking at me” as I fork them into my mouth.

[null and void]

You’re in your 90s...

[crosdaddy]

it docent just count, its the way. yummy if I do say so myself, and one of the most nutritious things can consume.

[Irish Eyes]

Could explain some of the benefits of the Mediterranean diet. Spanish and Italian cuisine both have whole small fish in it. Tapas of pan fried sardines for example chicetti of sauted sardines same same.

Same thing in Greece. They are really very good.