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Sushi, Diet Soda Latest Health Targets
NY Sun ^ | July 24, 2007 | BRADLEY HOPE

Posted on 07/23/2007 10:21:22 PM PDT by neverdem

Two foods once thought healthy — sushi and diet soda — pose grave health threats, according to two studies released yesterday.

The city's Department of Health and Mental Hygiene is launching a campaign against sushi, encouraging women who are pregnant, breastfeeding, or planning to have children in the near future to stop eating raw fish and cut down on their intake of even cooked fish with high levels of mercury. The campaign was prompted by a citywide survey that showed that women of childbearing age in New York had three times the level of mercury in their blood stream as did women in the same age group nationwide.

Meanwhile, a study published online in Circulation, the journal of the American Heart Association, by nine researchers affiliated with Harvard, Tufts, Boston University, and the federal government's National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute from a center at Boston University found that people who drank one or more soft drinks a day, including diet soda, were 48% more likely to have conditions that lead to heart disease. The thousands of participants of the study had a 31% increased likelihood of becoming obese, a 25% increased risk of high blood sugar, and a higher risk for low levels of "good" cholesterol, according to an article in the Los Angeles Times.

The soda industry and the seafood industry lashed out at the studies.

"This study doesn't prove any link between soft drinks and increased risk of heart disease. Its assertions defy the existing body of scientific evidence, as well as common sense," the president of the American Beverage Association, Susan Neely, said of the soda study. "It is scientifically implausible to suggest that diet soft drinks — a beverage that is 99 percent water — cause weight gain or elevated blood pressure."

"It is extremely..."

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: dietsoda; health; softdrinks; sushi
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To: elmer fudd

I would only eat it at a restaurant that serves puffer fish and has had no casualties!


41 posted on 07/23/2007 11:55:52 PM PDT by rmlew (Build a wall, attrit the illegals, end the anchor babies, Americanize Immigrants)
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To: El Gato; Ernest_at_the_Beach; Robert A. Cook, PE; lepton; LadyDoc; jb6; tiamat; PGalt; Dianna; ...
Theodore Dalrymple: Thanks for the Immunity

Smoking Ban Is Proposed in Drug Centers

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42 posted on 07/23/2007 11:58:28 PM PDT by neverdem (Call talk radio. We need a Constitutional Amendment for Congressional term limits. Let's Roll!)
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To: dennisw

Actually, I remember reading that Russians eat sliced raw pork fat as well as other finger food (sliced cucumber etc) as an appetizer with chilled vodka from the book “Inside The Aquarium” by Viktor Suvorov.


43 posted on 07/23/2007 11:58:44 PM PDT by Howard Jarvis Admirer (i)
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To: SoldierMedic
http://www.answers.com/sushi&r=67

sushi-

Japanese; thinly sliced raw fish.

In Japanese cuisine, sushi (寿司, sushi?) is a food made of vinegared rice combined with seafood. Most, but not all, fish used in sushi is un-cooked, but other ingredients may be cooked, blanched, sauteed, or marinated.

44 posted on 07/23/2007 11:59:21 PM PDT by Nathan Zachary
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To: neverdem
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45 posted on 07/24/2007 12:00:19 AM PDT by Cobra64 (www.BulletBras.net)
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To: Nathan Zachary
The original term Japanese: 寿司 sushi (-zushi in some compounds such as makizushi), written in kanji, means snack and refers to the rice, but not fish or other toppings.[1]
46 posted on 07/24/2007 12:00:42 AM PDT by SoldierMedic (Rowan Walter, 23 Feb 2007 Ramadi)
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To: americanophile

I believe there’s a theory (or actual studies) that suggest that fake sweeteners can cause the body to respond with insuline as if it were real sugar.

There’s also this: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2004/06/040630081825.htm


47 posted on 07/24/2007 12:07:51 AM PDT by DB
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To: Nathan Zachary
http://gojapan.about.com/cs/sushilinks1/a/sushi1.htm

Sushi indicates foods that use rice seasoned with sweet rice-wine vinegar. Of course, raw fish is the most popular ingredient in sushi, but the main element of sushi is Japanese sticky rice. There are many kinds of sushi, which don't include raw fish. Cooked fish, shellfish, and various other ingredients can be combined in sushi.
48 posted on 07/24/2007 12:09:32 AM PDT by SoldierMedic (Rowan Walter, 23 Feb 2007 Ramadi)
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To: neverdem
I asked a gastroenterologist I used to see what he thought of sushi. He answered: "Let me put it this way: I wouldn't eat it."

At one time I used to eat sushi pretty often. Now I only do this infrequently. I really think this is unrelated but I haven't had to see the gastroenterologist for years.

49 posted on 07/24/2007 12:19:44 AM PDT by wideminded
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To: Nathan Zachary

There are many varieties of sushi that do not contain fish. Tamago, is egg sushi. Basashi is horse sushi. Kappamaki is cucumber roll sushi and there are many, many others.


50 posted on 07/24/2007 12:22:11 AM PDT by elmer fudd (Fukoku kyohei)
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To: neverdem

This doesn’t bother me. I’ve always avoided diet soda because of the aspartame. I’ve always avoided sushi because the mere thought of eating raw fish makes me sick.


51 posted on 07/24/2007 12:49:45 AM PDT by Pinkbell (I'm a Christian, a conservative and a Republican, in that order. - Mike Pence)
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To: elmer fudd
Isn't Tamago called just Tamago, Basashi called just Basashi ? Kappamaki called just Kappamaki? Sure, it's made in a simular way, but sushi is raw fish.

Or more simply,

A Tamago roll,
Basashi roll,
AKappamaki roll
and a Or wrap. If I was making a tradition egg roll, but at the last moment decided I wanted to use corned beef and sauerkraut for a filler instead, would I still call it an egg roll? Of course not.
I don't know what I would call it, but egg roll would be very deceptive.

52 posted on 07/24/2007 1:04:57 AM PDT by Nathan Zachary
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To: SoldierMedic

Yep. That’s what it says in post 44. IF fish is used, it’s usually raw.


53 posted on 07/24/2007 1:09:17 AM PDT by Nathan Zachary
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To: SIDENET
Aw, hell. I'm just gonna start smoking again.

I'll drink to that!

54 posted on 07/24/2007 2:29:07 AM PDT by gotribe ("Truly, America is my favorite slave." - King Fahd Bin Abdul-Aziz, Jeddeh 1993)
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To: taxcontrol

It tastes good.


55 posted on 07/24/2007 2:36:27 AM PDT by Kozak
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To: taxcontrol

Tuna is fish bait? NOT


56 posted on 07/24/2007 2:40:44 AM PDT by tiger-one (The night has a thousand eyes)
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To: SoldierMedic

Sushi sashimi is also traditionally inspected for worms and other parasites. That is partly why sashimi is so expensive.


57 posted on 07/24/2007 3:27:24 AM PDT by Jedi Master Pikachu ( What is your take on Acts 15:20 (abstaining from blood) about eating meat? Could you freepmail?)
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To: Nathan Zachary
Sashimi is fish.

Sushi often has fish, but not always, as one of your definition states.

While cooked fish is probably safer, some fish--such as tuna--are tastier raw (opinion, and sort of a moot point as now have stopped eating meat).

Sort of how some people eat cookie dough with raw eggs (unpasteurized) although it could have salmonella.

58 posted on 07/24/2007 3:34:24 AM PDT by Jedi Master Pikachu ( What is your take on Acts 15:20 (abstaining from blood) about eating meat? Could you freepmail?)
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To: Jedi Master Pikachu

Sashimi can also be other marine animals.


59 posted on 07/24/2007 3:36:43 AM PDT by Jedi Master Pikachu ( What is your take on Acts 15:20 (abstaining from blood) about eating meat? Could you freepmail?)
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To: garyhope

Pho is the best thing going


60 posted on 07/24/2007 3:43:15 AM PDT by mylife (The Roar OfHey! The Masses Could Be Farts)
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