Fish & Mercury

http://www.cfsan.fda.gov/~frf/sea-mehg.html

Note that light tuna has much less mercury than white tuna. The light tuna barely made it into the group of fish classified as "lower in mercury." I mention this because I recently received an information flyer from a doctor which suggested that people eat light tuna freely because it is relatively low in mercury. That seems misleading. Trout, salmon, See this list of the relative amount of mercury in different types of fish.

www.americanpregnancy.org/pregnancyhealth/sushimercury.htm

If this doctor was misled by that misinformation, so might many others. (Some people suggest that our FDA's policy was due to political pressure from the fishing industry.)


Oops. That last went out before I finished working on it. I wanted to say that instead of eating light tuna, we would be better off eating salmon, shrimp, trout, perch (ocean only), tilapia and haddock.