What do YOU substitute with tuna to avoid mercury poisoning etc.?
Sometimes I'll have chicken instead, or even eggs.
Sometimes I'll have chicken instead, or even eggs.
Sport What Do You Substitute With Tuna?
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I eat canned salmon as well as tuna, but don't really substitute the salmon, just use it for variety. Not really concerned about mercury poisoning from the canned varieties.
I used to be not that worried about mercury poisoning also, and i'm still not that bothered about it but my mom knows someonoe who used to eat tuna because she didn't eat any other type of meat (she was a vegetarian) anyways she had 4 miscarriages due to mercury posioning...although i'm not sure how many cans of tuna she ate every week
I understand the issue. I eat tons of tuna myself. Just about a can every day. I read something that said that you should only have about a can every few days...also read that salmon is as bad if not worse with heavy metals than tuna. Oh well...beats the processed crap anyday. And I'm not real worried with having miscarrages. 
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I sub anything that is lean except pork. The best thing you can do is get the greatest variety of proteins for your body. Change the protein profile you give you body as often as possible.
Almost forgot to answer the question...
I sub anything that is lean except pork. The best thing you can do is get the greatest variety of proteins for your body. Change the protein profile you give you body as often as possible.
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Old wive's tale.
The fact is that mercury is everywhere. No matter what you are eating, it contains mercury. The FDA advises that pregnant women reduce their consumption of predatory fish, such as sharks and swordfish. However, it issues no such warning for canned tuna because it has such low mercury levels.
I really wish consumers would do a little research.
I don't, because there is little danger of mercury from canned tuna.
How can it be an "old wive's tale" if it happened...you obviously misread the post that you quoted...secondly, the woman who had mercury poison, as I said, was vegetarian meaning she ate only salads and tuna/fish...she had to undergo many treatments to get rid of the mercury poison
I read the post and saw that it attributed her problems to mercury. However, it is conjectural to say that it came from canned tuna. The fact is that no one has the slightest idea how she was exposed to the mercury. As I said in a previous post, mercury is everywhere. It is released into the environment by natural processes as well as by human activity. For example, it is released by coal power plants. It is found in almost all water (which is where fish acquire it). Canned tuna is far below FDA thresholds for mercury exposure, so canned tuna is a very unlikely culprit. No amount of tuna would have done this.
As a second point, no one has the slightest idea that mercury caused her to have miscarriages. Mercury levels would have to be extremely high to cause her to miscarriage, and if she was having any sort of medical care during the first pregnancy, it would have been discovered and prevented mercury affecting any future pregnancies. Thus, a string of mercury-tainted pregnancies is unlikely. As an aside, mercury is much more likely to cause birth defects in live children rather than miscarriages.
Some women are prone to miscarriages, and it is probably as simple as that. She doesn't want to believe that, so she blames canned tuna, of all things.
Lastly, lol irl @ someone calling herself a vegetarian while chowing down on fish flesh.
"mercury poisoning", seriously? are we talking 20 cans/day? too much of anythig is bad for you.
This is just another example of a myth that gets thoroughly debunked yet is still widely believed. Another example is people who think living near a power line increases their risk of contracting leukemia, cancer, or any other ailment.
Any other protein source.
Miscarriages doesn't sound like mercury poisoning to me.
Long exposure to mercury can cause brain damage, and even death. So this person you are talking about, most likely doesn't have mercury poisoning for 4 pregnancies. If she did, she would have serious brain damage and/or would be dead by now.
Mercury damages things like your central nervous system, kidney, etc.
Women who have mercury poisoning and are pregnancy usually have damaging results to the fetus. The results can be children with weak muscle, hearing/speech loss, etc. The FDA advises women to avoid swordfish, shark, king mackerel and tilefish. Also, women should limit the intake of king crab, snow crab, albacore tuna and tuna steaks to 6 oz. or less per week. So eating tuna fish is ok, even for women.
Sounds to me like the women you are describing just had bad luck with her pregnancy. Blaming it on mercury poisoning is incorrect, as mercury poisoning doesn't cause miscarriages, and the doctor would have known this during her regular checkups.
Long exposure to mercury can cause brain damage, and even death. So this person you are talking about, most likely doesn't have mercury poisoning for 4 pregnancies. If she did, she would have serious brain damage and/or would be dead by now.
Mercury damages things like your central nervous system, kidney, etc.
Women who have mercury poisoning and are pregnancy usually have damaging results to the fetus. The results can be children with weak muscle, hearing/speech loss, etc. The FDA advises women to avoid swordfish, shark, king mackerel and tilefish. Also, women should limit the intake of king crab, snow crab, albacore tuna and tuna steaks to 6 oz. or less per week. So eating tuna fish is ok, even for women.
Sounds to me like the women you are describing just had bad luck with her pregnancy. Blaming it on mercury poisoning is incorrect, as mercury poisoning doesn't cause miscarriages, and the doctor would have known this during her regular checkups.
Tuna (along with other open water fish) contain alkylglycerols that remove mercury from their body. When we eat these fish the alkylglycerols remove mercury from our body as well.
We should be ok consuming these fish as long as we are not talking about fish that were part of a industrially polluted area (like what happened in Minamata Bay, Japan).
We should be ok consuming these fish as long as we are not talking about fish that were part of a industrially polluted area (like what happened in Minamata Bay, Japan).
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Exactly. If she had mercury poisoning, the doctor would have learned it during her first prenatal visit of the first pregnancy. Are we to believe that she went about in a state of mercury poisoning for years and it was never noticed ny any doctor? The fact is that some women are not intended to bear children, and rather than accept that fact, she blamed canned tuna. Whatever helps her sleep at night, I suppose.
that's funny doc...so she wasn't intended to bear children? well, after they found out she had mercury poisoning, she got treatment, like I said, and had a child a year later...sure, maybe it wasn't tuna, but how would you know, you're not a doctor are you? you don't have her medical records do you? ...thought so
I didn't say that. I said some women aren't. I am glad to learn that she does not have a poison womb after all.
She must have had a great doctor, as it only took him a few years to find out she had mercury in her body! I guess he forgot the part of the first prenatal visit where several vials of blood are taken. He also forgot to do that on every other prenatal visit during the first, second, third, and fourth pregnancies. Hey, we all make mistakes!
Correct, I am not a doctor. However, I do not need to be a doctor to state the fact that canned tuna is not a significant source of methyl mercury. I also don't need to be a doctor to state the fact that mercury poisoning is much more likely to cause birth defects in live children rather than miscarriages. If I were her doctor, it wouldn't have taken me years to find mercury in her system. If the facts are as you described them, the doctor clearly committed malpractice. If she is still with him, your friend is a fool.