Seafood ChoiCeS

Seafood Choices: Balancing Benefits and Risks
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Health care providers
advice from, 10
large networks of, 266
Health effects of methylmercury
cardiovascular toxicity, 133–135
on critical target organs, 124–135
neurological toxicity, 124–133
research recommendations on, 14, 108
Health risk appraisals (HRAs), 250–251,
284
recommendations on, 11–12, 240
Health risks associated with seafood
consumption, 121–194
environmental chemicals, 121–151
findings, 176–178
interactions between nutrients and
contaminants in seafood, 152–153
recommendations on, 178
research recommendations on, 14–15,
178–179
risks associated with more acute
seafoodborne hazards, 153–176
selenium and seafood contaminants,
152–153
Healthfulness
choosing, 218
claims of, 235
in eating pattern, 222
Healthy People objectives, 19
Heavy metals, 21
Heparin-binding proteins, 153
Hepatitis A (HAV) infections, 165
HHS. See Department of Health and
Human Services
High-density lipoprotein cholesterol
(HDL-C), 94, 99, 285
Highly unsaturated fatty acid (HUFA), 76
Histamine poisoning, 169, 284. See also
Scombroid poisoning
Hopkins Symptom Check List (HSCL), 72
HR. See Hazard ratio
HRAs. See Health risk appraisals
HSCL. See Hopkins Symptom Check List
HUFA. See Highly unsaturated fatty acid
Human pathogens, associated with seafood,
163
Hyperglycemics, 174
I
IARC. See International Agency for
Research on Cancer
IFT. See Institute of Food Technologists
IgE. See Immunoglobin E
IHC. See Interactive health communication
IL. See Interleukin
Immunoglobin E (IgE), 83
Immunosuppressive effects, 174
Impact of aquaculture on seafood supplies,
future, 42–43
Impact of federal fish advisories, 232–234
Impact of information on consumer
decision making, 230–238
evaluating the effects of previous
seafood consumption guidance,
232–238
understanding consumer decisionmaking
as the basis for the design
of consumer guidance, 230–238
Impact of state fish advisories, 234
Impact of toxicants on selenium status,
58–59
dioxin, 58
polychlorinated biphenyls, 58–59
in seafood, 58–59
Implementation, embedding consumer
advice within a larger consumer
information program, 270–271
IMT. See Intima-media thickness
Inconsistencies in sampling and analysis
methodology, recommendations
on, 7, 178
Indian Study on Infarct Survival, 94
Indigenous peoples, 10, 40. See also
individual indigenous peoples
Individual influences, on food consumption
decisions, 218
Infants and children of mothers who
increase seafood and/or omega-3
fatty acid intake
allergy effects in, 83–84, 378–387
animal studies, 418–419
Cochrane reviews, 388–389
cohort studies, 386–387, 412–417
cross-sectional studies, 418–419
meta-analysis, 390–393
randomized controlled trials, 378–385,
394–411
review studies, 388–389, 410–411
studies on allergy effects in, 378–387
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