Increasing Seafood Options in Children’s Diets

Kids don’t always get excited about seafood for dinner. However, seafood is packed with omega-3s, calcium, vitamin D and lean protein.

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Earlier generations were warned about toxicity of seafood, which is why it’s been left out of many meal plans. Tuna is a common childhood staple, and light tuna contains very little mercury. You can feed your child three servings of tuna a week without worrying about mercury. You needn’t worry about mercury in fish sticks, salmon and shellfish.

Listen as Dr. Aaron Bernstein joins Melanie Cole, MS, to discuss how to add more seafood into your child’s diet.

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Increasing Seafood Options in Children’s Diets
Featuring:
Aaron Bernstein, MD
Aaron BernsteinDr. Aaron Bernstein is a pediatric hospitalist at Boston Children’s Hospital and a national expert on children’s environmental health. As co-director of the Center for Climate, Health and the Global Environment, which is led by Obama EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy, Dr. Bernstein examines the human health effects of global environmental changes, such as climate change and the loss of biodiversity, with the aim of promoting a deeper understanding of these subjects among students, educators, policy makers, and the public. 

He serves on the American Academy of Pediatrics Council on Environmental Health Executive Committee, the Board of Scientific Counselors to the CDC’s National Center for Environmental Health and Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, and the Board of Directors of the U.S. Green Building Council.

An avid bicyclist, Dr. Bernstein pedals to and from work year round.