Sunday, March 3, 2013

Sea food-healthy eating or fancy lifestyle

Sea food-healthy eating or fancy lifestyle

Sea food is a commonly used term representing all kinds of sea animals or seaweed suitable for being served as food.

Although sea food is known to be a high class dish, people have enjoyed all kind of sea food specialties since the antiquity. Due to the enormous collecting and commercialization, many sea animals have gone under the risk of disappearing and have become law protected species. The current global collapse of sea food is mainly due to over fishing but also to the sea pollution; both have dangerously increased in the last 50 years endangering worldwide oceanic ecosystems.

Many diets served all over the globe contain a diversity of sea food specialties due to their high content of nutritive factors among which the most important one is known to be proteins. Especially for the vegetarians, sea food tends to be an important source of vital vitamins and minerals but also a caprice and a fancy eating habit.

The most commonly served sea food dishes are known to be the Japanese specialty" Sushi", Sashimi, Fried calamari, Clam Chowder and Moules frites. Although the term sea food generally stands for both sea animals and seaweeds used in the culinary domain, seaweed is rarely considered among the most wanted sea food dishes. Fish, shellfish, mollusks and crustaceous are cooked and served all over the globe for both their nutritive content as well as for fun.

Fancy restaurants, especially those with Chinese specific serve sea food dishes sometimes for quite high prices due to their rarity as well as to the interesting and unique mode of cooking. In spite of the desperate announces made by ecologist groups trying to save endangered species, over fishing continues to be a major factor of sea animals global collapse. This is unfortunately due to the high request for this kind of dishes.

Very few sea food consumers are aware of the risks they undergo when purchasing sea specialties from unreliable sources. It is highly recommended to be well informed about the sea foods that are healthy to be served as many sorts of sea animals and seaweed contain a high quantity of mercury and PCBs. Health organizations advise sea food consumers to get information about over fishing and consume species that are not at risk of disappearing and also keep themselves informed about the sea specialties that can be consumed without endangering their health.

Still, the request for sea food dishes tends to increase. It is recommended to consider the implications of over fishing on the natural sea ecosystems. Fancy lifestyle or healthy eating habit, people must be aware of the consequences a high consume of sea food implies.


By: ebet sandersmore resources about Sea Foods please visit http://www.SeaOnlineFood.info

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