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pregnant women should limit eating fish

151949 — Sat, 23 Aug 2014 13:43:52 GMT

to 8 to 12 oz a week, due to unknown amounts of mercury in the fish. It seems to me that if pregnant women should not eat anything it is probably a good idea for everyone to limit that item. However, I do not eat ANY fish as just the smell of fish makes me gag and wretch.

Do you eat things that they say pregnant women should not eat?

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151949 — Sat, 23 Aug 2014 13:47:57 GMT

My source was CBS this morning.

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brii — Sat, 23 Aug 2014 13:51:18 GMT

I do not eat raw fish ever. I don't eat a lot of canned tuna anymore. I do love fish and eat it a couple times per week.

I cook and eat meats to at least medium well done.

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millieshops — Sat, 23 Aug 2014 13:55:16 GMT

The devil is in the details - and the details didn't ask anyone to limit all fish, just certain types of canned tuna fish.

And even them some scientists are already disagreeing about the study. If I were pregnant or hoping to be pregnant soon, I'd limit those types of canned tuna and keep following the controversy, but I'd also still be eating other fish.

Please, please, everyone, get the basic details right when you're ringing alarm bells.

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GSPgirl — Sat, 23 Aug 2014 14:45:35 GMT

Yes the docs told me that in 1982 and 1994.

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Jersey Born — Sat, 23 Aug 2014 18:57:38 GMT

I am not sure what happened to my prior post, but I tried to agree with Q2girl. This is old news, that is being brought up once again to help young women who haven't heard about this before.

What confounds me is that all pregnant women are being told they must get influenza vaccines while pregnant. How is it okay to advise women not to eat mercury, but it is okay to inject it? All mercury, in any form (ethyl or methyl), down to the nanomolecular level, is bad for a growing fetus, and for every person, too.

Re: pregnant women should limit eating fish

151949 — Sat, 23 Aug 2014 19:14:49 GMT

there is a sign at a fishing dock on Lake Erie that says the fish are not safe for pregnant women to eat - IMO - they are thus not safe for anyone to eat. We always practiced catch and release. However, we pulled several fish out of that lake with a big old tumor visible on it. As I said i don't eat fish but even if I did I would not eat them from the great Lakes.

When my DH was first diagnosed with diabetes he was eating a lot of fish because his cholesterol was high and because fat is what makes glucose resistant to insulin. Anyway, his dietitian told him too much fish was just not healthy because you just don't know how much mercury is in any fish so he should limit it to 2 meals a week. He was actually told a perfect balance for him would be 2 days a week LEAN red meat - 2 days a week white meat - 2 days fish and one day meatless. On the days he eats fish I usually eat meatless. It has been working well for us - both with low cholesterol.

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brewhaha — Sat, 23 Aug 2014 19:18:06 GMT

I have eaten fish all my life. So far, so good.

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Mama2KBR — Sat, 23 Aug 2014 19:27:02 GMT

The mercury thing for pregnant women is old news. However, spreading misinformation about such things as vaccines is not only old news as well, but ridiculous. Try doing some research (and not from the anti-vaccine brigade websites) and you'll discover how incorrect many of those comments truly are.

Re: pregnant women should limit eating fish

Marienkaefer2 — Sat, 23 Aug 2014 19:33:29 GMT

My favorite fish are halibut and salmon. I eat salmon about twice a month (every other week). I buy wild caught Alaskan Copper River Salmon in May and June and freeze it. Tuna...I eat that every so often. Maybe once a month. I think the health benefits far outweigh any possible issue...But I'm not eating it every day, either.

Re: pregnant women should limit eating fish

Jersey Born — Sat, 23 Aug 2014 21:10:06 GMT

On 8/23/2014 Mama2KBR said: The mercury thing for pregnant women is old news. However, spreading misinformation about such things as vaccines is not only old news as well, but ridiculous. Try doing some research (and not from the anti-vaccine brigade websites) and you'll discover how incorrect many of those comments truly are.

You think mercury in vaccines is safe? Please cite one single mercury or thimerosal safety study. Just one. I look forward to reading it.

In the meantime, here is a link to the definitive Burbacher monkey brain study showing how dangerous the ethylmercury in vaccines is. From that study, here is an important quotation, "There was a much higher proportion of inorganic Hg in the brain of thimerosal monkeys than in the brains of MeHg monkeys (up to 71% vs. 10%). Absolute inorganic Hg concentrations in the brains of the thimerosal-exposed monkeys were approximately twice that of the MeHg monkeys. Interestingly, the inorganic fraction in the kidneys of the same cohort of monkeys was also significantly higher after im thimerosal than after oral MeHg exposure (0.71 ± 0.04 vs. 0.40 ± 0.03). This suggests that the dealkylation of ethylmercury is much more extensive than that of MeHg."

Where is your study, Mama2KBR?