A latest book named Netherlandish Health Diet Manual, made a quantized analysis of adults’ health diet exclusively. The book suggests that people should eat fish twice a week, 100-150 gram each time, and should eat fatty fish t once at least.

Adults Should Eat Half a Kilo of Fish Every Week

Ma Guansheng, a researcher from China Center for Diseases Control and Institute for Nutrition and Food Safety, said that the diet guidance for Chinese people also advocates us to eat more fish and prawn, and the quantity advised is 50-100 gram. Half a kilo of fish and prawn, especially of deep-sea fish, is the basic required quantity for adults.

Fish contains a lot of substances, such as animal protein, calcium, phosphor, and vitamine A、D、B1、B2，and the content is much more than animal meat, like pork , chicken. Proteins contained in fish are complete protein. The quantity and ratio of essential amino acid in those proteins are similar to that in human body. Those complete proteins are most suitable for human body and can be easily digested and absorbed, with an absorption rate of 96 percent.

In addition, fish contains plentiful vitamine D, Omega-3 and polyunsaturated fatty acids. Those substances are good anti-oxidation and cancer-fighting substances .Fish can also reduce cholesterin and triglyceride, and prevent solidification of blood.

Eating Fatty Fish Can Lower the Risk of Getting Cancer

Researchers from Carolinesika Medical School in Sweden did a survey on over 60000 women who had had X-radio of their breasts. After inquiring on their diet habits and conditions, researchers found that eating fatty fish at least once a week can low the risk of getting Kidney Cancer by 74 percent.

Fatty fish includes those fishes that live in deep sea, such as salmon, menhaden, sardine and herring. Low-fat fish includes cod fish, weever, tuna and so on. Fatty fish contains five times as much vitamin D as low-fat fish, the content of Omega-3 fatty acid in deep sea fish oil are about 20 times as much as that in low-fat fish. If fatty fish is not always available, eating fresh water fish is also good for health.