We are getting closer to the end of the year 🎇. Thanksgiving 🐔 and Christmas 🎅 are around the corner, so I have been going out more lately. This time, I decided to go out again with friends for dinner. We went to a restaurant called, Hot N Juicy Crawfish. The food was very good! I loved everything I ate! It was very fresh and I felt that the pricing was good also.

I do not eat seafood often for health reasons, but since it has been many years since I last ate crabs, I knew I had to try them. That night was fun and I loved the company I was with, so I vlogged it for the memory 😋.

Hot N Juicy Crawfish 2018 Eating Out Vlog Part 1

After we arrived at the restaurant, we sat down and ate a lot of food. I ordered fried catfish and one pound of steamed blue crabs that were cooked in garlic butter and a lemon and pepper sauce. The crabs and catfish were amazingly fresh and the sauce made the delicious ❤!

Hot N Juicy Crawfish 2018 Eating Out Vlog Part 1

After we were all nice and full, we then went right next door for dessert 🍨. I ordered a brownie sundae, but it was too sweet and chocolaty for me, so I could only eat half of it 😇.

Now that you have watched the vlog, it is time to learn about seafood. Why is seafood bad for your health in large quantities? What is the best and safest way to eat seafood? Why is seafood not eaten often by those in the health community? Why do doctors tell pregnant women not to eat seafood at all? You will learn all of this today.  

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Mercury

Source: “File:Mercury (element).svg” by Me, Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mercury_(element).svg

The first thing that comes to my mind when thinking about seafood is mercury. Mercury is the main reason that seafood is considered bad for you. All seafood contains some mercury, and the more seafood you eat and the more regularly you eat it, the poorer your health will become over time. You may not currently connect some of your health problems to the seafood that you eat now, but they are definitely there. The reason doctors tell pregnant women not to eat seafood at all is because it can be extremely dangerous for babies, who are weak and whose immune system is not fully developed yet. Eating mercury while pregnant can cause major birth defects or health problems that can reduce the baby’s chances of survival. 

Source: “New Idria Mercury Mine” by Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Idria_Mercury_Mine

“Mercury is a toxic metal that poses a serious health risk to developing fetuses, babies, and children, who can suffer brain damage and learning disabilities from prolonged or repeated exposure to even small amounts of mercury. Although the metal occurs naturally in the environment, mercury levels in our air, land, and water have increased dramatically since the rise of industrialization in the late 19th century…Mercury enters streams, rivers, lakes, and oceans primarily through rain and surface water runoff. Bacteria can then convert it to an organic form called methylmercury — the form that is dangerous to people. All fish have some mercury. When small fish with low mercury levels get eaten by bigger fish, the amount of mercury biomagnifies. For this reason, long-lived fish and top-level predators like swordfish and shark often have the highest mercury levels. According to EPA, mercury concentrations in fish can be 1 to 10 million times the mercury concentration in the water” (Mercury in seafood. EDF Environmental Defense Fund). 

Side Effects of Too Much Mercury

“Numbness, memory problems, depression, physical tremors. As the levels of mercury in the body rise, more symptoms will appear. These symptoms may vary depending on a person’s age and exposure levels. Adults with mercury poisoning may experience symptoms such as: Muscle weakness…nausea and vomiting, lack of motor skills or feeling uncoordinated…changes in vision, hearing, or speech, difficulty breathing” (Johnson, J. (2018, Jan 9). Mercury poisoning: Symptoms and treatment. MedicalNewsToday). 

To see the full list of symptoms from mercury poisoning, please visit this website: https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/320563

If you love seafood or eat a lot of it, then I recommend checking the mercury levels of the fish that you order in restaurants or cook most often. You can find this information here on the FDA website. Understanding how much mercury is in the fish you eat will allow you to monitor how much seafood you can eat and how often you can eat it. In general, the smallest amount of mercury that has been found in fish is 0.003 ppm, which is in scallops because they are quite small. Size matters a lot. There is a good amount of mercury in larger fish like tuna, crawfish, cod, trout, and mackerel, as well as crabs and lobsters. In general, the bigger the fish, the more mercury it will contain, so base your meal portions on the size of the fish and the amount of mercury that it contains. 

Radiation

The second reason that seafood is not considered good for you is because of radiation from Japan 🏯. All seafood does contain radiation, just as it contains mercury. The radiation from Japan extends as far as the U.S., so we can not avoid it here, but we can protect ourselves from it and still eat the things we like in moderation. However, if I were traveling in Asia🎐, I would avoid seafood as much as possible because places like China, Vietnam, etc, are much closer to Japan 🎎 than places like the UK  or America. 

Aside from the radiation ⛔, I also take the current state of our food into consideration. Since listeria is a huge problem around the world today, choosing between seafood and other foods is a matter of choosing between the lesser of two evils. With seafood 🐙, I can still enjoy it as long as I am not pregnant 👶, as long as I do not eat it too often (moderation is key), and as long as I drink colloidal silver water afterward to take the mercury out of my body.

If you do not already keep a bottle of colloidal silver water at home, I definitely recommend getting one. Colloidal silver is amazing for preventing and stopping colds, removing heavy metals out of the body, and killing many germs and bacteria that cause diseases and health problems. You can find the best colloidal silver water here on this website on the ‘Buy Health, Skincare, & Haircare’ Page. 

How Often Should You Eat Seafood 🍤?

I eat seafood maybe a handful of times every other month or so, unless it is a special occasion 🎉. On holidays, I might eat seafood a bit more frequently in a two month period of time. Unfortunately, listeria has really dampened things for me, so I am eating a bit more seafood, since compared to listeria, which can eat a baby alive in its mother’s stomach (learn more about this here), seafood does not look all that bad 👌. 

Conclusion

If you love seafood 🍣, considering how many foods are recalled every month for listeria, I say live a little and eat what you like, but do so in moderation. Understand that our world has changed. We have polluted 🌇 our once clean waters so badly that we have ruined a lot of our foods. Many people like to blame commercial farming 🐷 for the contamination and depletion of our soil today, but it is more than that. Humans, overall, are just destructive to the environment because we require so much food and there are so many of us. There is little that we can do about the damage done to our environment; all we can do is accept the changes to our environment ☀ and adjust our lifestyle accordingly to give us optimal health without sacrificing too many things that we love 🐟.

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