ApocaDocs: Mercury surprise: Rice can be risky

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Posted Sat Apr 17 2010: from Science:


	Mercury surprise: Rice can be risky http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1271520714 Ask toxicologists how best to avoid mercury poisoning and they'll almost certainly advise against eating too much of the wrong types of fish. (Never mind that there's considerable confusion about what the wrong types are.) But a new study out of China shows that for millions of people at risk of eating toxic amounts of mercury-laced food, fish isn't the problem. Rice is. And that's bad news because in their part of the world rice is the dietary staple... the researchers report that although mercury exposures for these communities varied dramatically, in every one of them -- rice accounted for 94 to 96 percent of the probable daily intake of methylmercury -- the most neurotoxic and readily absorbed form of mercury.

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'Doc Michael says:

And here we thought rice was nice.