Long
before all the designer protein powders hit the shevles,
magazines and juice bars, long before all
these amazing supplements appeared guaranteed
to pack on lean muscle FAST!, and light years before the
current marketing
frenzy to perfect bodyness for all, hard-core
iron-pumpers relied almost exclusively on TLCC for their
lean protein. It's a twist on the expected acronym for 'tender
loving care':
Tuna & Lots of Cottage Cheese
They're
still viable nutrition, but with a huge proviso. The joint
Food and Drug Administration and Environmental Protection
Agency have mandated that certain
types
of seafood fishes are riskier than others for regular
and sometimes even occasional consumption! Severe precautions
to children and fertile women raise big red flags are all
of us.
It's
the larger fishes that are most suspect and the culprit is MERCURY which
has pervaded every ocean and sea and many lakes on the planet. Fun
to watch roll around in your hand in Chem 101, but toxic to
human when ingested, mercury when consumed
in continued abundance can cause poisoning, learning disabilities,
motor skill impairment
and
short-term
memory loss.
(http://www.pbs.org/now/science/mercuryinfish.html)
FISH TO AVOID
(high in mercury content)
shark
swordfish
king mackerel
tilefish
"solid white" albacore tuna (no more than 6 oz. per week)
tuna steaks
FISH TO CHOOSE (lower in mercury content)