Though 45% of Americans say they eat seafood once a week, only 22% say they eat it twice a week, according to a 2008 report in the Journal of Food Service.
But the benefits of fish and seafood are so great that the government's recently released 2010 Dietary Guidelines for Americans recommend that average Americans increase their seafood intake to at least 8 ounces a week, or about two servings. The guidelines, from the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the Department of Health and Human Services, say adults now consume only about 3½ ounces a week.
Among reasons for seafood resistance: complaints about taste, cost and limited access to stores that sell a variety of fresh seafood; concerns that seafood is difficult to cook; and confusion about contaminants, especially mercury, which occurs naturally in soil and rocks but can be released into the air through industrial pollution.
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