{"id":375928,"date":"2010-03-01T12:49:02","date_gmt":"2010-03-01T17:49:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.szone.us\/f20\/canned-tuna-linked-mercury-40160\/"},"modified":"2010-03-01T12:49:02","modified_gmt":"2010-03-01T17:49:02","slug":"canned-tuna-linked-to-mercury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/375928","title":{"rendered":"Canned tuna linked to mercury"},"content":{"rendered":"
Canned tuna linked to mercury<\/b> <\/p>\n

If you’re partial to canned foods, you’re probably getting a little something extra in your tuna salad: a heaping helping of mercury. <\/p>\n

But let’s face it — if you’re partial to canned foods, you’ve got bigger fish to fry. You’re eating your way into an early grave, and your lousy processed-food diet will kill you long before the mercury can. <\/p>\n

The seafood-mercury scare is nothing new…but if you stick to healthy, deep-water wild-caught fish, don’t panic. You should be far more worried about the mercury in your fillings, tap water and vaccinations than anything in your seafood. <\/p>\n

If, on the other hand, you think fish are caught with can openers, do yourself a favor and pay attention to the new study from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Researchers examined 300 cans of tuna from the top three brands, and found 55 percent had higher-than-safe levels of mercury. <\/p>\n

Bad? Sure. But unless you’re locked in a shelter and the bombs are falling, you shouldn’t be eating anything that comes in a can, period. The processed garbage inside is bad enough, but the cans themselves are lined with a dangerous estrogen-like chemical called bisphenol-A, or BPA. <\/p>\n

Add some mercury to the mix, and you’ve got a toxic stew that only a government regulator could love. After all, the EPA still lists canned tuna as a low-mercury choice… despite repeated studies that prove otherwise. And the FDA continues to say BPA is perfectly safe to use in can linings and plastics \u0096 despite admitting "concern" over it.<\/font><\/a> <\/p>\n

If you really want to lower your risk, there are other fish in the sea. The safest — and healthiest — include freshwater trout, flounder, salmon, catfish, whitefish and herring, along with oysters and clams. If you have to have tuna, stick to the fresh stuff caught in deep waters. <\/p>\n

And if the catch of the day includes farmed fish, throw it back. Farmed fish often have higher levels of mercury, lead and PCBs. They’re also much lower in the essential omega-3 fatty acids that make fish so healthy to begin with. <\/p>\n

Should you decide to skip seafood altogether, get your fins on a quality fish oil supplement and eat plenty of fresh, fatty grass-fed beef to make sure you’re getting enough of those omega-3s. <\/p>\n

Casting a wide net,<\/p>\n

William Campbell Douglass II, M.D.<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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