01-07-2014, 05:41 AM
There have always been health risks associated with eating deep sea, top-of-the-food-chain animals at least for the last few decades where our industrious activity mixes with the oceans and in some cases things like the heavy metals associated with eating tuna occur in nature. Moderation is a good idea. Freaking out is a waste of time.
See you soon Puna, Aloha!
"To alleviate fears that you may be glowing due to ingestion too many visits to your local sushi joint, Fischer et al. figured out exactly how much damaging radiation you would receive from eating a tower of tuna rolls. Seriously. Science is just that awesome. Supermarket tuna hunters would receive 0.9 #956;Sv of radiation, while the outdoors subsistence tuna hunter would receive 4.7 #956;Sv. These values are about the same or a little less than the amount a person receives from natural sources.
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You’ll get the same amount of radiation by eating 9 bananas. Monkeys might be doomed, but you are not."
http://deepseanews.com/2013/11/true-fact...-disaster/
See you soon Puna, Aloha!
"To alleviate fears that you may be glowing due to ingestion too many visits to your local sushi joint, Fischer et al. figured out exactly how much damaging radiation you would receive from eating a tower of tuna rolls. Seriously. Science is just that awesome. Supermarket tuna hunters would receive 0.9 #956;Sv of radiation, while the outdoors subsistence tuna hunter would receive 4.7 #956;Sv. These values are about the same or a little less than the amount a person receives from natural sources.
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You’ll get the same amount of radiation by eating 9 bananas. Monkeys might be doomed, but you are not."
http://deepseanews.com/2013/11/true-fact...-disaster/