Posted on 06/23/2024 6:42:22 PM PDT by ConservativeMind
A new study has found evidence linking the intake of small fish, eaten whole, with a reduced risk of all-cause and cancer mortality in Japanese women. The study highlights the potential life-extending benefits of habitually eating small fish.
Japanese people habitually eat small fish, such as whitebait, Atlantic capelin, Japanese smelt, and small dried sardines. Importantly, it is common practice to consume small fish whole, including the head, bones, and organs, which are rich in micronutrients, such as calcium and vitamin A.
The research team investigated the association between the intake of small fish and mortality risk among Japanese people. The study included 80,802 participants (34,555 men and 46,247 women) aged 35 to 69 years nationwide in Japan.
The participants' frequency of the intake of small fish was assessed using a food frequency questionnaire at baseline. The researchers followed them for an average of nine years. During the follow-up period, 2,482 deaths from people included in the study were recorded, with approximately 60% (1,495 deaths) of them being cancer related.
One of the most striking findings of the study was the significant reduction in all-cause and cancer mortality among women who habitually eat small fish. Women who eat small fish 1–3 times a month, 1–2 times a week, or 3 times or more a week had 0.68, 0.72, and 0.69 times the risk of all-cause mortality, and 0.72, 0.71, and 0.64 times the risk of cancer mortality, compared to those who rarely eat small fish.
After controlling for factors that can affect mortality risk, the researchers found women in the study who ate small fish frequently were less likely to die from any cause. These findings suggest that incorporating small fish into their daily diet could be a simple but effective strategy to reduce the risk of mortality among women.
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Great. I’ll just eat at the bait shop for now on…
effective strategy to reduce the risk of mortality among women.
Love that crunchy calcium
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.
Yea, I’ll take a dozen shiners to go.
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.
rock on fellow Dines lovers.
Who would want to live with a woman with whole, dead fish-breath?
Sardines? YUCK! ;-)
Eating sardines at least once a month seems easy enough.
Okay then. On my shopping list for tomorrow:
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.
I eat whole sardines on crackers out of a can often. Does that count? I am in my nineties.
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
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.
You’re in your 90s...
it docent just count, its the way. yummy if I do say so myself, and one of the most nutritious things can consume.
Same thing in Greece. They are really very good.
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