Are canned vegetables, tuna and instant rice ok to eat?

I'd go easy on the tuna. It's high in mercury. Twice a week is plenty. When I was pregnant with my first child 25 years ago, I ate a tuna sandwich every day at work, thinking tuna was a good protein "brain food." This was before we knew about the mercury. My child has a mild form of autism, and I always wondered years later whether that was the cause.

I eat frozen vegetables all winter, especially broccoli. There's nothing added to it, it's cheaper than fresh, and convenient to cook. Also, they don't spoil. I think you'd have to eat a lot of brown rice to get arsenic poisoning. Most of the people in my office area vegetaraians who live on the stuff, and they're all pretty healthy.

They're fine to bulk on, but be careful with large tuna consumption.


I went way overboard eating a family pack of tuna, 5 days a week, for 6 months. I got the beginning levels of mercury poisoning. If I was superman, it's how I imagine kryptonite would feel.

Now I'm off seafood for 6 months.

http://www.ewg.org/research/tuna-calculator

The above is a link to a calculator for determining how much tuna you can safely consume a week (based on FDA guidelines). A 190 lbs male can consume safely consume about 3 cans a week.

If they fit your macros/caloric requirements in accordance with your fitness goals then yes. That's a very nice dish.

MERCURY....SODIUM.....come on guys lets be real here...both are NOTHING to be worried about. All sodium will do is make you hold water...the amount of mercury found in canned tuna has been scientifically debunked. In the year 2014 I'd be surprised if they even found "traces" of mercury.

http://water.epa.gov/scitech/swguidance/fishshellfish/outreach/advice_index.cfm#tuna

Canned light tuna is lower in mercury. Albacore tuna has higher levels of mercury. Levels of mercury are sufficiently high to warrant
Government advisories especially for pregnant and nursing women (obviously does not apply to you). You do have to eat a lot of canned tuna to exceed the guidelines. I would suspect you would die of culinary boredom well before mercury poisoning.

If they fit your macros/caloric requirements in accordance with your fitness goals then yes. That's a very nice dish.

MERCURY....SODIUM.....come on guys lets be real here...both are NOTHING to be worried about. All sodium will do is make you hold water...the amount of mercury found in canned tuna has been scientifically debunked. In the year 2014 I'd be surprised if they even found "traces" of mercury.

http://water.epa.gov/scitech/swguidance/fishshellfish/outreach/advice_index.cfm#tuna

Canned light tuna is lower in mercury. Albacore tuna has higher levels of mercury. Levels of mercury are sufficiently high to warrant
Government advisories especially for pregnant and nursing women (obviously does not apply to you). You do have to eat a lot of canned tuna to exceed the guidelines. I would suspect you would die of culinary boredom well before mercury poisoning.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=l5D4oQdvWNk

Cliffs:

When Mercury binds with selenium, it becomes harmless
Tuna (and most other fish) have higher levels of selenium than Mercury, meaning the Mercury will bind to the Selenium, and be excreted from the body as a harmless compound

Man you lazy ! in my experience canned veggies taste like **** and are more expensive. if you buy at the street market you can have cheap stuff !!! it takes only a little time to prep and a lot less to cook than frozen
props to the eggs !!! i eat a ton of them but i buy the free range ones
for the canned tuna i prefer makerel has no mercury and it's cheaper (at least in my country)

They're fine to bulk on, but be careful with large tuna consumption.


I went way overboard eating a family pack of tuna, 5 days a week, for 6 months. I got the beginning levels of mercury poisoning. If I was superman, it's how I imagine kryptonite would feel.

Now I'm off seafood for 6 months.

This happened to me!

ETA: I was eating 2-4 cans of tuna a day, though.

Just don't mix them together because that doesn't make for a happy casserole. Otherwise, these are all fine.

ETA: I have also had elevated mercury that required medical treatment. Mine was from fresh raw tuna sushi every day.

Watch the tuna consumption and keep it reasonable.

Yes, definitely use egg noodles instead of rice when making tuna casserole!

I avoid canned foods where possible since the cans are lined with BPAs which mimics estrogen.

Buy a small rice cooker / steamer for $10. You can add frozen vegetables to cook with the rice and it's ready in 20 minutes.

If they fit your macros/caloric requirements in accordance with your fitness goals then yes. That's a very nice dish.

MERCURY....SODIUM.....come on guys lets be real here...both are NOTHING to be worried about. All sodium will do is make you hold water...the amount of mercury found in canned tuna has been scientifically debunked. In the year 2014 I'd be surprised if they even found "traces" of mercury.

http://water.epa.gov/scitech/swguidance/fishshellfish/outreach/advice_index.cfm#tuna

Canned light tuna is lower in mercury. Albacore tuna has higher levels of mercury. Levels of mercury are sufficiently high to warrant
Government advisories especially for pregnant and nursing women (obviously does not apply to you). You do have to eat a lot of canned tuna to exceed the guidelines. I would suspect you would die of culinary boredom well before mercury poisoning.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=l5D4oQdvWNk

Cliffs:

When Mercury binds with selenium, it becomes harmless
Tuna (and most other fish) have higher levels of selenium than Mercury, meaning the Mercury will bind to the Selenium, and be excreted from the body as a harmless compound

If this were true, than why would mercury be traveling up the food chain, with humans ending up with actual verified mercury poisoning after consuming large amounts of tuna?

I'll trust the FDA vs a YouTube video when it comes to this issue.

ETA: Lots to read on Medline regarding mercury levels correlating with fish consumption. Here is just one. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24555648

This isn't just some broscience youtube video. It's a CONTROLLED STUDY by top biomedical scientists at the Energy & Environmental Research Center which is FUNDED by the United States Government.

The broscience is strong in this thread

Can you link me to the controlled study they did?