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The Journal of Risk Research recently published a study from Rutgers University researchers entitled Sushi consumption rates and mercury levels in sushi: ethnic and demographic differences in exposure...
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Got Mercury is a campaign launched by the Turtle Island Restoration Network, an activist organization that goes heavy on the rhetoric while skimping on the science. The campaign’s website explains: ...
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The Dartmouth University Superfund[ers of Fearmongering]
The Dartmouth University Toxic Metals Superfund Research Program contains a section on mercury, which includes a short documentary video and a number of links to Information About Seafood and Nutritio...
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The Gelfond Fund for Mercury Research & Outreach
The Gelfond Fund for Mercury Research & Outreach claims to be “focused on providing information to the public and health professionals about how mercury gets into seafood and what the health eff...
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Health Blog
Business Insider and Emily Oster Continue the Tuna Myth
Emily Osters new book, Expecting Better: Why the Conventional Pregnancy Wisdom Is Wrong-and What You Really Need to Know, has been getting attention for taking on some of the conventional wisdom about...
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Nutrition Journal Study Lacks Credibility
The online-only Nutrition Journal, one of 200 journals churned out by a British for-profit conglomerate, recently released a study on the consumption habits of pregnant women that baselessly and speci...
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Scraping the Bottom of the Nutrition Science Barrel
Who do you want giving you nutrition advice when youre pregnant, doctors and dietitians or a psychology student? If you trust a new study that eclipses the negligent rating and catapults itself into r...
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New Study Debunks Any Link Between Eating Fish and Autism
A new report published in the scientific journal Epidemiology by researchers at the University of Rochester has found no relationship between eating fish during pregnancy and increased risk for autist...
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Health Blog
After receiving a computer generated brush off from the New York Times ombudsman, who was apparently too busy writing about Sesame Street, Leonard Cohen, the 7-minute workout, Kanye West, and barbersh...
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Health Blog
How Much Philly.com Should You Believe?
When Philly.com asked how much tuna kids should eat we took a close look at their reporting and found it... lacking. Here's a letter to their editors and watch this space for any response.June 24, 201...