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Re:Give babies peanut butter to cut allergy by 77%, study says by havblue on Friday March 17, 2023 @01:29PM (#35200139)
This is a point of frustration between my wife and me and it repeats every 6 months or so. "Honey, let's feed the girls some shrimp so they don't get allergies." "No. Not yet. I don't want them to get mercury poisoning. It can wait."
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Re:Give babies peanut butter to cut allergy by 77%, study says by bradleyjg on Friday March 17, 2023 @01:59PM (#35200529)
I was under the impression that shrimp was among the lowest mercury seafood, along with herring, anchovies, and a few others.
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Re:Give babies peanut butter to cut allergy by 77%, study says by stametseater on Friday March 17, 2023 @02:45PM (#35201179)
The smaller the fish, the less mercury it has. The ones you have to watch out for are the big fish that eat lots of medium fish that in turn eat lots of smaller fish; each stage in the food chain concentrates more and more mercury. Sharks and tuna have a lot of mercury. And smaller tuna, like skipjack, have less mercury than larger tuna.

Also I think the threat of mercury in fish is greatly overstated anyway. Look at Japan; they eat tons of fish and they're not all brain damaged dummies.

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Re:Give babies peanut butter to cut allergy by 77%, study says by ericd on Friday March 17, 2023 @02:04PM (#35200603)
I thought mercury was mostly an issue with apex predators?
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Re:Give babies peanut butter to cut allergy by 77%, study says by havblue on Friday March 17, 2023 @02:10PM (#35200711)
That was more of a paraphrased quote. Her concern is primarily in farm raised seafood I believe. It is an issue with apex predators though, since I'm married to one.
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Re:Give babies peanut butter to cut allergy by 77%, study says by Gordonjcp on Friday March 17, 2023 @02:18PM (#35200826)
You'd have to be eating an unreasonable amount of seafood to get enough mercury in you to be a problem.
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