Seafood

[Guest guest]

Hi Everyone!

People have been asking about seafood, so I wanted to show you the copper and

zinc content of some seafoods to help you in your seafood selections. Please

remember that all seafoods are wonderful foods for the thyroid because they

have ample supplies of trace elements. Some foods are especially rich in

copper and zinc and are therefore excellent for hyperthyroidics.

Hypothyroidics don't need so much copper but they still need zinc, so pay

attention to the zinc.

Clams, steamed (3 oz) Copper .59 mg Zinc 2.3 mg

Crab (3 oz) Copper 1.00 mg Zinc 6.5 mg

Lobster (3 oz) Copper 1.70 mg Zinc 2.5 mg

Oysters (12) (3 oz) Copper 7.60 mg Zinc 154.6 mg

Squid (calamari)(3 oz) Copper 1.80 mg Zinc 1.5 mg

Halibut (3 oz) Copper .03 mg Zinc 0.5 mg

Salmon (3 oz) Copper .09 mg Zinc 0.8 mg

Tuna (3 oz) Copper .11 mg Zinc 0.4 mg

As you can see, there is a huge difference between the shellfish and the fish

in copper and zinc content. To get the 2 mg of copper to keep you alive (and

not even start to rebuild your copper stores), you would need 10 cans of tuna

(6 oz cans) a day. To get copper, you're better off eating chocolate than

tuna:

German sweet chocolate (1 oz) Copper 0.2 mg Zinc 0.4 mg

Ten cans of tuna, ten ounces of chocolate, or 3 oysters -- there are very

big differences in copper content.

Canned oyster stew couldn't be easier (remember fresh doesn't matter for

copper content. Clam chowder (canned or in a restaurant) is great. Buy cans

of crab instead of tuna and make crab sandwiches or crab casserole. Canned or

fresh crab on a salad. This weekend at Fisherman's Wharf in San Francisco, I

had a fresh crab and lobster louie salad. Whew!! Was that good!

Think shellfish!! Yea, maybe we'll all go broke, but I'd rather be broke and

well than rich and sick.

So let's hear all those seafood ideas!

______________________________________________________________________