This morning the CBS Early Show did a short segment with Dr. Jennifer Ashton that mentioned seafood and eating fish while pregnant. While Ashton came pretty close to getting the FDA advice on seafood consumption basically right, she did something that Doctors often do-- lump "tuna" in with higher mercury fish like Shark and Tile Fish. She said:
Over the past few days, we've been seeing sporadic reports about a study that was published by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) that measured the amount of mercury found in the bodies of most Americans.
A couple of hours ago, the Environmental Protection Agency published something called the National Lake Fish Tissue Study, a "national screening-level survey of chemical residues in fish tissue from lakes and reservoirs," in the lower 48 states. Here's how the AP is reporting its findings.
If you'll remember it was just this month last year that we blogged about Safe Harbor Certified Seafood and how its website features an attack on canned tuna that employs overt exaggeration and blatant misinformation.
Are you serious?
The professional actor and whiner who once claimed he got mercury poising from eating sushi, a claim that would make him the only person in America to have ever come down with such toxicity via the normal consumption of commercial seafood, is making another claim today about how his diet has affected him adversely.
In case you haven't seen this a Canadian researcher has made a bit of news north of the border with a presentation on fish and mercury. Dr. Gideon Koren says his latest work, looking at more than 100 women's hair samples, has lead him to the conclusion that 20% to 30% of Canadian women of reproductive age have mercury levels high enough to damage the brain of a developing fetus.
Quick name a Tony award winning actor who is not Huge Jackman. I didn't think so.
Those finger-on-the-pulse-of-mainstream-America Broadway watchers over at the New York Times have crafted yet another rehash of the stale Jeremy-Piven-claims-to-have-mercury-poisoning story.
Last night I made 2/3 of the meal I planned. By the time we sat down to eat it was almost
9pm, so fish sticks
and bok
choy slaw seemed sufficient.
