Safe Seafood Calculator

I found this cool tool on the Internet and I wanted to share it with you.

Earlier this week I blogged about the problem of protein drinks and powders contaminated with heavy metals, such as lead, arsenic, and cadmium. While real food is always a good option, there still are concerns about contamination, such as mercury in fish.

Now you can choose your fish more confidently with the help of the seafood calculator at HowMuchFish.com.

This calculator, the only one of its kind on the Internet, can help you determine how many omega-3 fatty acids you're eating and how much fish you need to eat to reach the FDA’s Reference Daily Intake of nutrients such as protein, Vitamin B12, potassium, selenium, and, in some seafood varieties, iron. It can also tell you how much fish is safe to consume based on the Environmental Protection Agency's “Benchmark Dose Lower Limit” for mercury content.

Just plug in your weight, how much fish you eat in a single serving, and your fish of choice. Besides telling you how many nutrients you get in a serving, it also informs you of how much of that type of fish you would have to eat in a week before a hypothetical health risk from mercury would kick in.
Now you can eat fish confidently and reap the health benefits. Try it out and let me know what you think.