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04-11-2010, 08:01 PM #1
Tuna
Alright, so I've started going on a diet, and I have found tuna to be the perfect food for lunch or a snack. 80 calories, 1G of fat, and 18G of protein. However, one of my friends told me that I shouldn't eat fish more than once or twice a week because of the mercury. True or false?
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04-11-2010, 08:07 PM #2
It's true that the canned tuna I fed my cat was grey as shit tonight.
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04-11-2010, 08:09 PM #3
Mercury is not on the ingredient listing on my "Chicken of the Sea" tuna. Perhaps you should change brands.
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04-11-2010, 08:11 PM #4
Unfortunately it's correct in many instances. Tuna is great but limiting intake is probably prudent. Don't know the mercury stats on Salmon but it's also pretty high on the healthy meter.
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04-11-2010, 08:14 PM #5
I eat fish a few times a week and nothing is wrong with me (well that depends who you talk to), I think what they talk about with the mecury thing applies to larger fish like barracudas and shit. A tuna can't be that big because how would they fit a big fish in one of those little cans?
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04-11-2010, 08:53 PM #6
Are you now or planning to be pregnant any time soon?
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04-11-2010, 09:03 PM #7
Here's what the "experts" say
www.epa.gov/fishadvisories/advice/
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04-11-2010, 09:38 PM #8
I think rule of thumb without reading the article is 2 cans of regular tuna or 1 can of albacore per week.
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04-12-2010, 02:49 PM #9
My wife gets blood tested for work regularly (she works with hazardous chemicals). Awhile back she decided to cut out red meat and chicken for a while and ended up eating lots of fish, including a good bit of tuna. At her next blood test, her mercury levels were super-high and her doc asked if she'd been eating a lot of fish. When she cut back down to normal levels (fish/seafood once or twice a week), the mercury levels went back down to normal. So definitely a correlation.
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04-12-2010, 03:12 PM #10
Yea, fish meat tends to hold those sorts of heavy metals much more so than beef or pork. It also doesn't help that fish eat smaller fish, which are full of heavy metals...
So yea, don't eat fish too often. It's def. healthy, but as with just about anything, moderation is key. I think the numbers I've heard tend to be b/w 2-4 times per week tops. Of course, YMMVgo Go GO!
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04-12-2010, 03:18 PM #11
Chicken breasts are low fat, way cheaper, and no heavy metals....?
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04-12-2010, 03:22 PM #12
But tuna is chicken of the sea??!
Actually, tuna is being fished into oblivion, so maybe we shouldn't be eating so much tuna. The WWF gives them only ~2 more years (granted the article is from a year ago).go Go GO!
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04-12-2010, 03:28 PM #13
Tuna are one of the ultimate ocean predators. In this case, all of the toxins accumulate at the the top of the food chain.
Search "Minamata" + "Eugene Smith" if you want to learn how devastating the issue can become.
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04-12-2010, 03:35 PM #14
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04-12-2010, 03:44 PM #15
^^ Vegetarian is an option. Then of course you have to be concerned with whether or not that broccoli you're eating is free range or not....
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04-12-2010, 03:51 PM #16
You're a bit off. The little fish don't have lots of mercury, the big fish just eat lots of them over a long period of time and the mercury builds up via [ame]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bioaccumulation[/ame]. If you fed a cow or pig the same diet for a similar length of time you would see similar mercury build-up in their tissues. The longer a fish lives and the higher up the food chain it eats the more mercury it will have. Most of these long-lived predatory fish are not sustainable fisheries and you shouldn't be eating them anyway.
BDL - A blanket statement that you shouldn't eat fish more than 1-2x/week is stupid for an adult male. There are a few species like shark, swordfish and farmed salmon that should be avoided entirely, but otherwise exercise some moderation with albacore and the rest are pretty much good to go.
Try subbing in canned wild salmon for canned tuna. Mixed up in tuna salad fixin's I hardly notice the difference, plus it has more O3 fats than tuna. Little fish like sardines and anchovies can be eaten with nearly reckless abandon. Also, cilantro has been found to have some chelating properties so load up on it when eating a lot of fish.
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04-12-2010, 05:28 PM #17
So what exactly are the bad effects of mercury?
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04-12-2010, 05:37 PM #18
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04-12-2010, 05:41 PM #21
eat kale and spinach, problem solved
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04-12-2010, 05:43 PM #22
I eat tons of tuna and salmon and I'm the sanest guy here.
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04-12-2010, 06:47 PM #23Education must be the answer, we've tried ignorance and it doesn't work!
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04-12-2010, 06:49 PM #24
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04-12-2010, 07:18 PM #25
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