Fish and mercury?

[oJannisaryo]

Love eating Tuna and Salmon, can eat it out of the can everyday if need be, but got told to cut down due to mercury levels in fish?

How much can i eat?

How much do you eat?

[gravite]

Salmon is fine

[VenomER]

Salmon is fine

this.Other than that stick to light tuna and don't go overboard on it...like 3-4 cans a week is on the safe side (i've done a lot more and also albacore tuna, and i can say when i stopped doing that two months ago i feel better than when i ate tuna around 2 cans daily).

[Trillios]

I've been eating chicken of the sea chunk light tuna (7oz can) 5x/week for 2 years now and I can't say I've noticed anything detrimental to my health. Will report back in another two years.

[oJannisaryo]

Salmon is fine

Salmon doesnt contain mercury? how many tins of salmon can i get away with a week?

I love tuna, but im looking for an alternative that doesnt have any such health issues, ill stick to a can of tuna per week. any other ideas?
Im looking to have it with rice or pasta. Something other than chicken?

[WonderPug]

Regarding tuna consumption:

It is recommended to limit your intake of canned light tuna to 12 ounces per week from a mercury standpoint, but canned WHITE tuna should be limited to 6 ounces per week.

See, Quantitative approach for incorporating methylmercury risks and omega-3 fatty acid benefits in developing species-specific fish consumption advice. Ginsberg GL, et al. Environ Health Perspect. 2009 Feb;117(2):267-75. Full text at: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...HP-117-267.pdf

By the way, in a recent review of canned tuna (in Nevada) researchers found that more than half of all canned tuna examined was above the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (U.S. EPA) safety level for human consumption (0.5 ppm), and 5% of the tuna exceeded the action level established by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (U.S. FDA) (1.0 ppm). See, An evaluation of mercury concentrations in three brands of canned tuna. Gerstenberger SL, Environ Toxicol Chem. 2010 Feb;29(2):237-42.

[joelash302]

Salmon doesnt contain mercury? how many tins of salmon can i get away with a week?

I love tuna, but im looking for an alternative that doesnt have any such health issues, ill stick to a can of tuna per week. any other ideas?
Im looking to have it with rice or pasta. Something other than chicken?

For fish, find those that are lower on the food chain. They have less time to accumulate mercury and other toxins. Anchovies, smelt and such. As you move up the carnivorous fish chain it becomes worse. So tuna, grouper, shark will end up having a lot of mercury build up.

So yea, not all fish are deadly, just have to be careful.

Also, Salmon are safe. I think it's because of their extremely fast life cycle but I'm not entirely certain on that.

[TBU720]

I always post this when a thread pops up about mercury:
http://www.bodyrecomposition.com/nut...d-mercury.html