Sentences with phrase «concerned about mercury»

If you're concerned about the mercury content in tuna, opt for a type that has a lower mercury content.

If you're concerned about mercury levels in your tuna sandwiches, select light tuna over white tuna, and limit any white tuna consumption to less than 6 ounces per week, recommends the FDA.

If you are concerned about mercury in fish oil supplements, look for a product that has been molecularly distilled.

It's also a good option if you're concerned about mercury: haddock has lower levels of the chemical than other fish, including tuna, halibut, and cod.

If you're concerned about mercury, choose salmon, anchovies, herring, shad, sardines, Pacific oysters, trout, and Atlantic and Pacific mackerel (not king mackerel), according to the USDA.

Women who do not eat much seafood, or who are concerned about mercury and other toxins frequently found in fish should consider supplementing.

As a doctor, I am much more concerned about mercury exposure in the environment - particularly in food (like that tuna fish sandwich).

Parents seem to be serving tuna fish less often these days because of the concerns about mercury contamination, but it is important to keep in mind that like many things, tuna fish is OK in moderation.

Because of the growing concerns about mercury exposure, Fernandez is leading a project at Wake Forest University in Winston - Salem, North Carolina, to study the metal's effects on human and environmental health in the Amazon.

Although there are legitimate concerns about mercury and toxins in certain types of fish and shellfish, the benefits of consuming seafood far outweigh the risks (6).

* Some women are scared to eat fish during pregnancy because of concerns about mercury levels.

Not exact matches

As a department spokeswoman told Canadian Business: «The delay is required in order to consider the concerns expressed about availability of compliant technologies and perceived health and mercury issues, including safe disposal for compact fluorescent lamps.»

As to concerns about heavy metals or such, like with all meat, knowing what's gone into it helps; I avoid Tuna and high mercury foods and such and watch exposure overall still better than a lot of drug options and worth a try!

If you're concerned about excessive mercury intake, you can minimize the chances by avoiding predatory fish, such as pike, marlin, mackerel, tilefish and swordfish.

In 1999 new federal safety guidelines for mercury in fish stirred concerns about vaccines as well.

The Faroes data renewed concerns about low - level mercury exposures elsewhere.

The concern about the toxicity of mercury is reflected by the steep decline in the use of mercury in industry over the past two decades.

Concern about early exposure to mercury doesn't end at birth.

Concerns about low - level toxicity haunt discussions of another ubiquitous source of mercury exposure: silver dental fillings.

In the mid-2000s, riding the wave of concerns about thimerosal, a mercury - containing preservative, Maryland doctor Mark Geier and his son, David, began to promote a theory that a pathological interaction between mercury and testosterone explained many symptoms of autism.

That's around 10 times the mercury emissions produced by humans over the past 30 years and researchers are understandably concerned about the effects it could have.

For years, health officials have warned pregnant women, nursing mothers, and young children to limit their fish consumption due to concerns about the apparent link between mercury exposure and subtle delays in the brain development of infants and children.

«For the average consumer who's worried about mercury in fish, our study suggests that cardiovascular toxicity should not be a concern.»

Neurological problems stemming from mercury - laden fish do not appear to be a concern for adults, but doctors have been less certain about the effects of mercury on heart health.

Are you concerned about your exposure to mercury from the food you're eating?

Because it comes from the ocean, you may be concerned about whether or not dulse itself has mercury, but Atlantic sea dulse won't release mercury it might have into the body because it holds onto it, grabbing other metals along the way and making sure all the toxins are driven out.

Now, some people will caution you about eating kelp, citing concerns about consuming toxic metals, such as mercury.

(However, with the concerns about methyl mercury in fish experts recommend you limit your exposure to large, predatory fish to no more than 7 oz a week - less if you are pregnant or a child.)

Despite your OB's concerns on one hand about mercury in fish — while somehow blithely injecting thimerosol - containing (ethylmercury) flu shots, on the other — many women remain confused about the role of seafood in a pregnancy diet.

While fish is still a healthy food that I eat occasionally as part of a diverse diet, I am concerned about the levels of mercury and other heavy metals that are present in our waters and our seafood.

While advocating for the environment, he has become particularly concerned about the effects of mercury on human health.

When we are concerned about low levels of lead in dust or mercury and cadmium in fish — it seems that a proliferation of ingestible or inhalable nuclear products is perfectly OK.

Now scientists have pinpointed a new reason to be concerned about ancient soils coming out of the freezer for the first time in millennia: mercury.

But then he got concerned about the fossil fuel used in the process and the toxic materials, such as mercury, released into the air.