Learning something new.

[Mitera Nikkou]

Right now my diet mainly consists of tuna, so I decided to check on what risks there could be for eating too much when I heard about too much tuna killing a cat from my stepfather. It turns out that, while the amount of mercury is relatively low in tuna, eating too much can become a health risk. Much like with ingesting too much fluoride.

I have no idea if about two cans a day is too much. Probably is. XD

[Flannery]

I eat fish all the time where I live. Because the water is kept so clean, and clear. But down south of us in and around the city Green Bay, Wisconsin (Home of the Packers) I wouldn't eat a thing that comes out of the Fox River. The Papermills have made mercury content in fish pretty bad.

[Stellar]

Two cans a day Nekkid >.> I'm scared of eating more then two cans of tuna a month... But I'm paranoid about strange minerals.

[Christina Anikari]

I am quite sure that it is too much. Tuna is one of the most poluted fish out there. Eating two cans of it is more or less like eating an entire Baltic Sea salmon a day, and fishing for salmon in the Baltic is illegal due to how poluted that sea is from heavy shipping.

Don't get me wrong, some tuna is fine, but two cans a day is one of the quickest ways of getting mercury poison short of breaking open an old thermometer and drinking the liquid in it.

[Mitera Nikkou]

As far as I know, they don't sell any tuna that exceeds .50ppm of mercury (which they seem mostly successful in accomplishing). Heck if I know what the math really means, but I found this one article about a guy who regularly ate tuna on a daily basis and had to stop when he found out that he had four times more mercury in his body than what is normal. It didn't say anything about there being health issues in his case, but there probably would have been if he continued his routine eating habit.