Word: mackerel
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...works, from the chemistry of cured salmon (it involves water-soluble proteins) to the physics of pressure cookers (it involves, um, pressure). Even if you never have to improvise a fish smoker out of a cardboard box, you will enjoy watching him do it. He's the MacGyver of mackerel...
...kittiwakes, 4,000 puffins and hundreds of razorbills, shags and great skuas. And roughing it is definitely not on the itinerary: crew members aboard the 12-m vessel, the Dunter 3, serve a champagne lunch, complete with Shetland-grown strawberries, salad from Wills' own garden, and smoked mackerel and marinated herring from the locally famous Shetland Smokehouse. For more information, visit www.seabirds-and-seals.com...
...CONSUME SOME OMEGA-3 FATTY ACIDS EVERY DAY ("GOOD FATS"). Only three grams a day may reduce your risk of sudden cardiac death as much as 50% to 80%, lower your triglycerides, reduce inflammation (e.g., arthritis) and may help prevent cancer. You can eat fish--including salmon, mackerel and halibut--or take fish-or flaxseed-oil capsules from which contaminants have been removed...
...method for raising POISONLESS FUGU, or blowfish; by researchers at Nagasaki University; in Japan. Fugu, which can kill a diner if prepared improperly, is prized as a delicacy. Scientists have found that the fish's toxin can be eliminated by replacing its bottom-feeder diet with one of mackerel and sardines...
VITAMIN D: A comprehensive study of more than 3,000 U.S. veterans found that fiber-rich diets that contain lots of vitamin D--the so-called sun vitamin, which is also plentiful in mackerel, salmon and fortified milk--significantly reduce the incidence of precancerous growths in the colon. British researchers linked an abundance of vitamin D to fewer fractures in people 65 years and older...