FDA EPA.. Mercury and Fish.

The Environmental Protection Agency has blasted the FDA’s analysis of the benefits and risks of fish consumption. The opinion is “not a product (we) should endorse,” the EPA said, “as it does not reach the level of scientific rigor.”

In the last days of the Bush administration, FDA had drafted a report that looked towards setting clear guidelines for consumers who were wondering whether the risks of fish consumption - namely, high levels of mercury and other heavy metals - outweigh the benefits, such as increased intake of omega-3 fatty acids and improved cognitive function. For its results, the FDA compared two recommendations - that people eat more fish of all kinds; and that people limit their fish consumption and eat only low mercury fish on the rare occasion that they do eat seafood. So in short choose variety of fish.. Or slow it down.

The agency did not look at large diet of only low mercury fish. With the data set excluded, the FDA concluded that the brain damaging effects of the mercury were outweighed by the benefits of fish consumption(Thats pretty ridiculous haha cause that’d defeat the purpose of eating it pretty much). The agency appeared set to urge people to stop monitoring their fish consumption, and implicitly tell them not to worry about which fish is higher in mercury.

The draft report was so bad and accused of faulty science that the FDA had released a new report. Although the EPA concluded that the report was “essentially unchanged, and *pause* (still) scientifically flawed. Meaning faults/and or lies.

Among the flaws cited by the EPA was the FDA’s reliance on a 22 year old study from Iraq that measured mercury damage based on the age at which children began to speak - the true ages of many children in the study, were not said. The FDA relied on mercury research that “had been completely abandoned by the scientific community as a basis for risk assessment for more than a decade,” the EPA concluded.

The FDA is quite inefficient being not only the mercury in fish.. but psychiatric drugs. They definitely need to be regulated.

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brain degeneration? Obesity?

A study found that obese people - have 8 percent less brain tissue than normal weighted people, and those who are classified as overweight have 4 percent less brain tissue..

Its called “severe brain degeneration” and researchers found these brains were not only smaller, but that they had aged prematurely as well. The brain of the obese and overweight looked 16 and 8 years respectively beyond the brain age of normal weighted individuals.

Poor diet and and reliance on processed foods were cited as the primary cause of obesity. But, have you ever thought about why a bad diet is a bad diet?  It’s mainly due to all of the man-made chemicals in them

What is normally considered a healthy diet is lots of fresh fruits, veggies, nuts, and whole grains, and it contains far fewer chemicals/none.

Processed food almost always contains man made chemicals because they’d have an extremely limited shelf life to rely without. Although chemicals in processed foods don’t stop with just preservatives - they include chemicals for flavor and color, and even unlisted chemicals that fall under the artificial flavors label. Most processed foods also contain genetically altered material - which just adds to the problem.

The act of processing, even when it starts with a natural food, alters the natural structure of the food and changes it from nature’s design with which humans are biologically compatible with. - Which is a problem.

Now question is…Is the actual fat in obese bodies causing the brains to shrink? Or.. is it that all of the chemicals and genetically altered materials that these people are consuming in a large amount by eating an unnatural and processed food diet?

If it’s the abundance of chemicals that the obese and overweight are taking in by consuming large processed foods, pretty much no one is immune to chemical contaminations from our foods these days. Its actually more likely that we’re just seeing the problem magnified in the obese and overweight, but that it’s affecting each one of us, and not in a beneficial matter…

You could actually connect all of the diseases associated with obesity with a large number of chemicals from processed foods. The same chemicals that manufacturers of those foods tell us are safe.

If Interested you may want to look into super-foods.

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