After all, some fish are literal depots for the bad chemicals we’ve been dumping in the oceans.  It’s a serious problem because  we also know that eating fish can be good for us. Since motherhood carries so many anxieties with it already, couldn’t we just get some peace over the eating fish thing?

KaBLOOM!  Your wish is answered.  Now there is a site that addresses this dilemma: Fish for Your Health.

State by state, Fish for Health lists the seafood-related advisories you need to be aware of.  It also tells you the nutritional benefits of particular fish, provides details about the specific contaminants that you need to be worried about, and to top it all off, there is a priceless video on how to clean fish.

The site was created by a group at Purdue University that does research on this very topic:  What should you tell pregnant and nursing women about how much and what seafood they should/can eat?

There is also a wallet card with key info that you can print out, or an iPhone application you can download.

Now, if you’re looking for recipes for cooking up that fish, try : LandBigFish,  FishRecipes, or if you want something on the lighter side: CookingLight20SuperFastFishRecipes.

Previous studies with yeast, worms, flies, and rodents have suggested that low-calorie diets can increase longevity, but this study is particularly important because Rhesus monkeys are primates, and so this suggests that humans could also live longer if they ate less calories. The authors note that a reduction of 30% from the baseline diet is not the same as malnutrition.

Of course, you can’t ask monkeys if they were feeling hungry all the time. But this study is one more reason for people to carefully examine their diets.

The study — “Caloric Restriction Delays Disease Onset and Mortality in Rhesus Monkeys,” by R.J. Colman and colleagues, will be published in Science magazine this week.