Is eating a lot of Tuna Fish bad for you

[bbrontosaurus]

Originally posted by: Gobadgrs
Due to working out and lifting weights, while trying to shed some fat as well, I have taken to eating a lot of Tuna fish. Is there anything wrong with eating 10 cans or so a week? Its a good tasting low fat meal.... any problems that you guys see with it?

Dood, after hearing all these mercury stories, I'm going to stick to chicken breast or turkey in a pouch! 😕

Great tasting, low fat, super convenient (just rip open the pouch and eat!).....not as cheap as tuna, but I'd rather not have all that mercury in my system, would you?

 

[tcsenter]

What about the tuna that comes in a pouch? Or does it not matter how it is packaged?

Yeah, it applies to all tuna. Tuna steaks at restaurants and fish markets contain even more mercury because steaks generally come from larger (older) tuna that has accumulated more mercury. The small (younger) tuna that isn't suitable for the tuna steak markets goes into the cans and pouches.

Acute mercury poisoning will leave you dead or with some permanent physiologic damage, so don't worry about that, because its highly unusual that someone would come into contact with that much mercury all at once.

The true risk is from accumulation over time. Eating ten cans in one week isn't likely to harm you as long as you go a couple months before doing it again. However, eating ten cans of tuna every week....not good.

 

[Kelemvor]

In the most recent Readers DIgest magazine, they did research and found that predatory fish that eat other fish (like Tuna, Swordfish, etc) have really high amounts of Magnesium in them and people were getting really sick when they ate too much.

 

[Jadow]

however, if you eat enough tuna, such as 100 cans in a 24 hour peroid, you become a liquid metal killing machine. Its really cool, you can make knives and swords with your arms, but not complex objects like bombs.

 

[CoolTech]

Originally posted by: Jadow
however, if you eat enough tuna, such as 100 cans in a 24 hour peroid, you become a liquid metal killing machine. Its really cool, you can make knives and swords with your arms, but not complex objects like bombs.

lol

 

[brigden]

Rats. My cat eats a can and a half of tuna a day.

 

[WinkOsmosis]

Not worth the mercury poisoning... Use protein powder.