Seafood and health: What you need to know? - PubMed Strong evidence has shown that eating fish and other seafoods improve brain, eye, and heart health The new 2020-2025 Dietary Guidelines for Americans (DGA) recommend that Americans of all ages should eat more seafood-at least twice a week-particularly pregnant women and young children However, less than one in five Americans heed that advice
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Drug Overdose Deaths: Facts and Figures | National Institute . . . Drug overdose deaths involving prescription opioids rose from 3,442 in 1999 to 17,029 in 2017 From 2017 to 2023, there was an overall decline to 13,026 IMF involvement in overdose deaths that also involved prescription opioid drugs steadily increased from 2014 through 2021 becoming the main driver of deaths involving prescription opioids
Burden of Cigarette Use in the U. S. | Data and Statistics . . . Cigarette smoking kills more than 480,000 Americans each year 1 Cigarette smoking cost the United States more than $600 billion in 2018, including more than $240 billion in healthcare spending and nearly $372 billion in lost productivity 1,2,3,4 In 2022, an estimated 11 6% (28 8 million) of U S adults currently smoked cigarettes
Seafood consumption per capita drifts higher in the United . . . U S residents consumed an average of 20 5 pounds of seafood— finfish and shellfish—per capita in 2021 The U S Department of Commerce, National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Fisheries Office of Science and Technology publishes annual consumption estimates for seafood produced through aquaculture and captive fisheries, domestically as well as those imported from other countries
The Growth of Imports in U. S. Seafood Markets - CHOICES The United States has become a major importer of seafood products; between 1998 and 2018, U S seafood imports approximately doubled, from just over 1 5 million tons to 3 million tons (National Marine Fisheries Service, 2019)
Author Paul Greenberg on why Americans should eat more fish The average American eats only around 14 pounds of seafood per year, compared to over 200 pounds of meat Yet some 18 million American adults, nearly 8 percent of the adult population, take fish