Campaign Aims To Get Memphis Residents To Eat More Seafood
November 11, 2014 | 1 min to read
MEMPHIS, Tennessee — A campaign led by health advocates and the fishing industry aims to get Memphis residents to eat seafood twice a week.
The Commercial Appeal reports (http://bit.ly/1oyXekP ) that Memphis is one of two pilot cities for The Seafood Nutrition Partnership, a group that organized public officials, celebrity chefs and health fairs featuring Omega-3 fatty acid screenings in October to promote the health benefits of consuming fish. Indianapolis is the other pilot city.
One factor that brought the seafood-eating campaign to Memphis is that the American Heart Association ranks Tennessee as the eighth-highest among states for death rates from cardiovascular disease. Arkansas is fifth and Mississippi is No. 1.
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