For countries who diet consist of mainly fish, how do they not get mercury poisoning?

Check out this list for a guide to which fish are lowest in mercury levels. It is from the Natural Resources Defense Council.

Thanks! I will look into it

I’m guessing your liver can deal with it to a certain extent.

And, within the U.S. there are areas where fish makes up a huge part of people’s diet. In Hawaii this is definitely the case. Subsistence fishing has always been a big part of native Hawaiian culture. I imagine Alaska and Washington also consume a lot of fish.

I asked my doctor to check my mercury so I didn’t have to guess whether I needed to lower my intake or not. I was right smack in the middle of the range. Helped me relax about the whole thing. I think I’ll check it every 2–5 years maybe.

I think the answer is that “they do”. Statistically you are much more apt to get a host of ails from upping your wild sea life intake (and also domestic wild freshwater fish).

Normally I take such things very lightly, but I lived in Japan for a bit and had to drink milky lead-stuff; and they put me in a human mixer and took x-rays every year just to get re-qualified for our corporate health insurance. It’s a big social health problem that is not fully reported to the public (in Japan).

Your icon is currently of a small child. I’d definitely talk to a professional in these matter vs. crowd-sourced answers online, I should think.

What makes you think the don’t? I’m with @ipso on this one.

I don’t know, but eating fish could prevent suicide…seriously.

Lots of cases of stomach cancer in parts of Asia, some blame it on the fish, some say high sodium, just sayin’.

@JLeslie your telling this to a persion who has an Asian baby as ther defalt pic, just sayin’. XD

I didn’t notice. Very cute. Are you Asian? Do you live in Asia?

There must be places where mercury levels are lower in the water; maybe they get fish from there…