Comments on: Mercury in the Environment: Accumulation in Fish and What You Can do to Reduce Your Risk of Mercury Exposure. http://www.healthynewage.com/blog/mercury-exposure/ Holistic health education and natural alternative healing Information. Learn about natural remedies and alternative medicines. Fri, 03 Feb 2012 07:48:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: matilda http://www.healthynewage.com/blog/mercury-exposure/comment-page-1/#comment-2953 matilda Mon, 01 Mar 2010 23:16:29 +0000 http://www.healthynewage.com/blog/?p=62#comment-2953 How does mercury come to fish and get inside fish? How does mercury come to fish and get inside fish?

]]> By: cyrell http://www.healthynewage.com/blog/mercury-exposure/comment-page-1/#comment-2822 cyrell Sun, 20 Dec 2009 10:23:24 +0000 http://www.healthynewage.com/blog/?p=62#comment-2822 Exactly what benefits are there from eating fish? Essential fatty acids are only in the fish because the fish gets it from prey which ate algae and plankton. Only plants can produce essential fatty acids, without plants no essential fatty acids. So a small fish eats plankton, the fish is eaten by bigger fishes which are eaten by even bigger fishes, and so on, until we have a tuna or salmon in the food chain. From flax seed oil you can get two times the essential fatty acids as from the same amount of fish oil. And because mercury and other bad stuff accumulates in the food chain you get 10-30 times less chemicals if you eat an other source of fatty acids than fish. Even the fish that is recommended to eat because the levels of mercury are the lowest in them, is much higher than from essential fatty acids found in plant foods. So what other benefits do you think are there if you eat fish, protein? Yeah sure, that is exactly why I would eat a mercury infested piece of fish to get my proteins, that is so healthy because of your advice not to live near areas where there are factories which use mercury and such stuff. Sure, that is important but when they dump their waste in the water and the sea. The sea is just one big pool of water. Drop some color into a bowl of water and it will change the water over time even if you do not stir. No matter if you eat fish which was caught at the south pole, at the north pole, near south America, or Africa, it is all the same. Near landscapes where factories dump their waste the fish contains more, but only fish that stays in this area, and salmon, tuna and all the other fish you find as common human food, is swimming all over the ocean. Local caught fish at such landscapes had only a meaning for mostly private fishermen. Their family and the local fish market in the towns. Fishermen that feed the food manufacturers with fish are from big companies and these do not operate near the coast, only high on the sea because of the mile long nets. All fish swim in a big soup made by the chemicals which humans drop in the water. If you avoid tuna and eat salmon instead you have lower levels of chemicals but still should you eat that stuff if scientists can not say how all the different chemicals interact with each other in the human body? Like with medication and alcohol you can higher your risk of getting bad reactions. Mercury is dangerous in itself, but the risk skyrockets when you mix it with DDT, PCB or any of the other nasty stuff you find in fish. But all the studies how dangerous mercury or PCB or other stuff is mostly made with single chemicals. They do not feed the animals fish, they analyze the fish and feed the found amount of mercury to rats, mice, rabbits, and cats. So they do not take into account how bad all the hundreds of other chemicals can affect you. Exactly what benefits are there from eating fish? Essential fatty acids are only in the fish because the fish gets it from prey which ate algae and plankton. Only plants can produce essential fatty acids, without plants no essential fatty acids. So a small fish eats plankton, the fish is eaten by bigger fishes which are eaten by even bigger fishes, and so on, until we have a tuna or salmon in the food chain.

From flax seed oil you can get two times the essential fatty acids as from the same amount of fish oil. And because mercury and other bad stuff accumulates in the food chain you get 10-30 times less chemicals if you eat an other source of fatty acids than fish. Even the fish that is recommended to eat because the levels of mercury are the lowest in them, is much higher than from essential fatty acids found in plant foods.

So what other benefits do you think are there if you eat fish, protein? Yeah sure, that is exactly why I would eat a mercury infested piece of fish to get my proteins, that is so healthy because of your advice not to live near areas where there are factories which use mercury and such stuff. Sure, that is important but when they dump their waste in the water and the sea.

The sea is just one big pool of water. Drop some color into a bowl of water and it will change the water over time even if you do not stir. No matter if you eat fish which was caught at the south pole, at the north pole, near south America, or Africa, it is all the same. Near landscapes where factories dump their waste the fish contains more, but only fish that stays in this area, and salmon, tuna and all the other fish you find as common human food, is swimming all over the ocean.

Local caught fish at such landscapes had only a meaning for mostly private fishermen. Their family and the local fish market in the towns. Fishermen that feed the food manufacturers with fish are from big companies and these do not operate near the coast, only high on the sea because of the mile long nets.

All fish swim in a big soup made by the chemicals which humans drop in the water. If you avoid tuna and eat salmon instead you have lower levels of chemicals but still should you eat that stuff if scientists can not say how all the different chemicals interact with each other in the human body? Like with medication and alcohol you can higher your risk of getting bad reactions.

Mercury is dangerous in itself, but the risk skyrockets when you mix it with DDT, PCB or any of the other nasty stuff you find in fish. But all the studies how dangerous mercury or PCB or other stuff is mostly made with single chemicals. They do not feed the animals fish, they analyze the fish and feed the found amount of mercury to rats, mice, rabbits, and cats. So they do not take into account how bad all the hundreds of other chemicals can affect you.

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