Mas Yus Health. Latest News, In many countries, shark fin has become one of the favorite foods. Its texture is chewy, muscular and fibrous, making it more mainstream. According to the myth in China, shark fin is believed to contain many beneficial substances. In fact, the results of a study conducted by researchers from the Food and Nutrition Information Center explains that the shark fin does not contain many nutrients. Shark fins are generally comprised of cartilage which generally do not contain vitamins. Therefore, shark fin is actually not very useful it would only threaten shark populations around the world because it continues to be hunted.
To overcome this, the U.S. government plans to vote for allow or prohibit trade in raw materials which are very popular dishes. The fans of shark fin, will certainly feel anxious to hear the news. The perpetrators of alternative medicine claim that shark cartilage has cancer-fighting substances. In fact, this claim itself comes from the mistaken belief that sharks do not have cancer. According to the National Cancer Institute, only one clinical study of shark cartilage as a way of treating cancer in humans which have been published in leading journals and that too showed that shark cartilage ineffective against cancer.
"We tested a pharmaceutically whether the extract of shark cartilage may also increase the success rate of patients who are still fighting against lung cancer," said Charles Lu, an oncologist from the MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, who chaired the study in 2010.
At that time, Lu said, he and his colleagues perform additional treatments on patients who received chemotherapy by giving several doses of extract of shark in different amounts to 397 patients. "Unfortunately, we do not see an increase in the chances of success," Lu said, as quoted from Life's Little Mysteries, June 1, 2011.
In fact, shark fin fact that even very unhealthy. Just like other fish products, they may contain enough mercury in dangerous doses. Mercury itself is present due to pollution in the oceans. And as the highest member of the food chain, sharks are potentially contain mercury higher than other sea creatures.
As an illustration, in 2001, Wild Aid, a group of environmental analysts in the report reveal that they found mercury in dangerous levels in shark fins found in Hong Kong. The figure 42 times higher than safe limits for human body. Though the shark fin is marketed to the world. That is, in other words, shark fin is dangerous to health, rather than bring benefits. And probably, in the near future he will be banned for consumption in California, USA.
