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Although there is general agreement that mercury in plants is a less toxic form, experts do not agree on whether the mercury in fish is stored primarily in the form of the more toxic methylmercury. In any case, children and adults who ate fish from mercury-contaminated waters in Minamata Bay, Japan, in 1953, along the Agano River in Niigata, Japan, in 1962, and other locations in Iraq, Pakistan, and Guatemala, all have suffered death, coma, or a variety of brain and neurological damage.

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An Environmental Protection Agency report estimated that 85,000 US women of childbearing age have excessive exposures to mercury. The mercury in fish comes 60 percent from burning coal and oil, and 36 percent from waste incineration. The Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) said it would cost up to $10 billion to fit power plant smoke stacks with filters to capture mercury, and that "it's just not worth it." Dr.

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FDA, EPA Revise Guidelines on mercury in fish." FDA, May-June 2004. http:// www.fda.gov/fdac/features/2004/304_fish.html. Ronzio, Robert. The Encyclopedia of Nutrition and Good Health. New York: Facts on File, 2003. Ross, Julia. The Mood Cure. New York: Viking, 2002. Schauss, Alex. Diet, Crime and Delinquency. Rev. ed. Berkeley: Parker House, 1981. -. "Nutrition and Behavior." Journal of Applied Nutrition 35, no. 1 (1983): 30-43. -. Nutrition and Behavior. New Caanan, CT: Keats, 1985. -. "Nutrition and Behavior: Complex Interdisciplinary Research." Nutrition and Health 3 (1984): 9-37.

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I'm frequently asked what to do about the mercury in fish. Honestly, I don't have a perfect answer. No one is more concerned about mercury than I am. We all know that retooling industrial plants so that they don't spew it everywhere costs a fortune, and we've all watched with dismay as the issue has become a political football, largely because no one wants to pay the enormous price of change.

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Those of us who don't eat meat, we don't have to worry about mad cow or bird flu or salmonella in chicken or mercury in fish. We get clean food. Wolfe: I'm not real dogmatic about being a vegetarian or being a vegan, but I'm so glad that those choices were made available to me. Freedom means being able to eat what you want, but you have to be a little bit clever these days, because what you're getting is not exactly what you suspect it is.

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CATCH-OF-THE-DAY CAUTIONS While the FDA and the EPA argue over what are "safe" levels of mercury in fish, this is a fast look at those fish you might want to keep off your plate per-manendy, and those you should only eat limited quantities of each month. Avoid If Pregnant Shark, swordfish, king mackerel, tilefish, tuna steaks, sea bass, marlin, halibut, walleye, largemouth bass (Methylmercury can cause damage to the nervous system of an unborn child. Large fish that feed on other fish accumulate the highest amount of methylmercury and pose the greatest risk to people who eat them regularly.

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Although there is a general agreement that mercury in plants is a less toxic form, experts do not agree as to whether the mercury in fish is stored primarily in the form of the more toxic methylmercury. In any case, children and adults who ate fish from mercury-contaminated waters in Minamata Bay, Japan, in 1953, along the Agano River in Niigata, Japan, in 1962, and other locations in Iraq, Pakistan, and Guatemala, all have suffered death, coma, or a variety of brain and neurological damage.

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