Five of the most commonly eaten fish that are low in mercury are shrimp, canned light tuna, salmon, pollock, and catfish.
Man, I wish they'd make up their minds about the salmon. I've been craving lox for ages, but I distinctly remember two different MD-vetted websites strongly cautioning against it.
::takes a random pill just for the hell of it::
Man, I wish they'd make up their minds about the salmon. I've been craving lox for ages, but I distinctly remember two different MD-vetted websites strongly cautioning against it.
I always thought that farmed salmon was bad, but wild was okay.
I always thought that farmed salmon was bad, but wild was okay.
Cool! IIRC, the salmon and lox at TJ's are usually labeled farmed or wild.
Turns out you're right about the milk. But the real problem seems to be that portion labels on foods don't necessarily have anything to do with USDA portions. The graph on the 2nd page of this link (PDF) is kind of crazy: [link]
Pancakes are meant to be eaten only in tiny tiny bites!
Personally, my food-pyramid WTF is that 1 slice of bread is a serving. So a sandwich is 2 servings of grain! All those poor people eating bran muffins because they think they have to. Little do they know!
3 oz of meat is a deck of cards.
Why did no one save me from the horror that is the OC?? I realize food is important, but still!
Why did no one save me from the horror that is the OC??
Because I stopped watching yonks ago. The eye rolling was exhausting.
You are our sacrifice. You watch it for us and summarize so we don't have to!
Man, I wish they'd make up their minds about the salmon. I've been craving lox for ages, but I distinctly remember two different MD-vetted websites strongly cautioning against it.
My memory is that the problem with salmon is that they use antibiotics in farmed salmon. There are also high levels of some plastic (PCBEs maybe? dunno). It's not a mercury issue.