What is so bad about the mercury in my tuna fish?!
Question: I love tuna, and I wish I could eat it everyday, but I heard it's bad to eat it too often because of the mercury in it. What is so bad about mercury? Also, how often should I eat a can of tuna fish?
Answers: I love tuna, and I wish I could eat it everyday, but I heard it's bad to eat it too often because of the mercury in it. What is so bad about mercury? Also, how often should I eat a can of tuna fish?
Mercury is a heavy metal. You ingest trace amounts from many foods, water pollution, dental fillings, and other sources on a daily basis. However, your body can only get rid of mercury at a certain rate. So if you ingest it faster than you can excrete it, it builds up in your tissues and poisons you, just like poisoning from lead, iron or any other metal. Mercury poisoning can cause many severe neurological symptoms, and in severe cases, death.
It is advisable to avoid eating too much tuna and some other types of seafood, because they contain high enough levels of mercury to put you at risk for poisoning. The reason they can contain mercury is because of pollution in the ocean waters. Generally, the ones to watch out for are the large fish-- especially predatory species-- because they are at the top of the food chain and end up containing much of the mercury that was in the other fish they consumed. Aside from tuna, examples include shark, swordfish, and tilefish.
The current advisory is to eat no more than 2 or 3 cans of tuna per week. Some varieties also contain more mercury than others: chunk light is preferable to albacore.
Too much consumption of mercury turns your skin blue--literally. On Good Morning America, they interviewed a man who had blue skin. If you want blue skin, keep on eating those tuna.
I've no idea. I've heard it for years, but I'm not gonna let that stop me.. Tuna's the bomb! Ever put it in Mac and Cheese? If not you need to try it. :)
It causes neurological problems and stunts mental development.
mercury is a poison. it is like lead, not good for you. i really dont think there is much of a problem, unless you eat it all the time. Every other day or so should be okay. If you really want to definite answer ask a nutritionist.
In the 1950s, they said the same thing about swordfish. There was a big panic.
Then somebody opened up some 100 year old cans of swordfish and discovered that the mercury levels were exactly the same.
Does that tell you anything?
It causes alzehimers disease. I would suggest only eating it twice a week.
mercury is a chemical that does not leave your body once it has entered, it absorbs into the soft tissue and can cause a lot of damage, it is poisonous to humans and does not do the fish any good either, i think for your health sake you should only eat the fish once every 9 to 15 day so that you do not over load your system with this chemical.
It also depends on the amount of the murcury the fish has absorbed before you eat it.
Mercury is very dangerous to your health.
There's so much information that I think it would be better if I just shared some links with you:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury_poi...
http://www.mercola.com/article/mercury/n...
Hope this helps.
Not all tuna is tainted by mercury. I still eat tuna.
But mercury poisoning is serious.
Mercury give you "brain damage." If you have high levels of mercury in your system when you are pregnant, you can have a child with brain damage, down syndrome, deformed, etc. Not good. Heavy metal poisoning for an adult is not that much better either. They use to call is the "China Syndrome" because many children were born with defects (mongoloid) and down syndrome.
Check out this reliable source and make a informed decision.
http://www.epa.gov/waterscience/fishadvi...