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    I love canned tuna I eat 2 cans a day it’s super low cal and high protein

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    1. EmykoEmyko on

      You’ve gotta cut back, unfortunately. You’re on the road to mercury poisoning. Two cans a week is the max amount you should consume.

    4. jaymoney784 on

      A can a day isn’t going to give you mercury poisoning, but 14 cans consistently for a long period of time might. I’d definitely recommend taking a tuna break!

    5. dontchewspagetti on

      Yes please don’t eat that much tuna, you can get mercury poisoning from it

    6. onesadbun on

      Omg noooooo hahaha! Max is like 2-3 cans a week I’m sorry! I love tuna its so much protein for so few calories I wish I could eat it every day too 🥲 but please stop lol

    7. TheLiteralAnchor on

      I’m so sorry, you just wanted to post your protein and we all told you you’re getting poisoned 💀

    8. altruismandme on

      Noooooo girl, listen to everyone else! You need to stop eating so much of it!

    9. allamacalledcarl on

      OP you’re gonna turn into a thermometer, please cut way back on the tuna!

    10. sign-through on

      ok david lynch you’ve been warned. unless you’re already a famous filmmaker, i would cut back. i think other foods come in cans though, like chicken. spam lite, even.

    11. 8927626887328837724 on

      I have a family member that started having seizures because of this diet causing murcery poisoning. Sorry. He still enjoys the occasional tuna melt.

    14. wonderingabout_u on

      Omg nooooo, idk if you use TikTok but there was this influencer, Emily Mariko, that made these salmon rice bowls that got super super popular in like 2021/2022. Anyways, there was a girl who watched one and started making it with canned tuna as a cheap delicious meal, and she ended up eating it every day and got super super sick for like a whole month straight, went to the doctor and found out it was mercury poisoning 😭 I remember seeing the video on my feed and going back to look at her other videos and the sickness seemed AWFUL! I know tuna is cheap and delicious, but consider a different fish with less mercury ❤️❤️

    15. bittersillage on

      Mercury so high you are about to turn into the smallest planet in our solar system

    17. memonemone on

      I feel for you OP… I love tuna. Sucks that it’s got literal poison in it. Maybe try canned salmon, mackerel, sardines? Any smaller fish I think would be better.

    19. Apprehensive-Age2135 on

      I can’t tell if this is a joke OP never learned about mercury poisoning in school…

    20. Nica-sauce-rex on

      Aw man. I physically cringed when I read the post title. Sorry friend.

    26. Treyvoni on

      Looks like you are in Canada, and the advisory there is for albacore tuna, not light tuna.

      https://www.canada.ca/en/health-canada/services/food-nutrition/food-safety/chemical-contaminants/environmental-contaminants/mercury/mercury-fish-questions-answers.html#ct3

      That said, although it has lower levels it is not zero levels. I would suggest seeking out an alternate protein and keeping it under 6 cans a week (the advice, as I understand it, for albacore tuna). Up to you tho.

    28. Cookiebutterisbetter on

      A family friend got extremely sick, like was admitted to the hospital sick for eating too much tuna. They were hospitalized for like a month. That’s how I learned about how dangerous too much tuna is. Please op, find another protein fix and cut back on that tuna.

    29. kath- on

      If it helps I feel like this is a common experience, falling in love with tuna then learning you can’t eat it all day every day

    34. carolina_swamp_witch on

      Please listen to everyone in the comments. I was eating a can a day and ending up with super mild mercury poisoning. I started getting headaches and my doctor tested me after he asked me if there had been any dietary changes and I told him how much tuna I’ve been eating. The headaches went away after I stopped eating so much tuna, and now I never eat more than 1-2 cans a week.

    36. SimpleVegetable5715 on

      That’s fine, I am just going to let you know your primary care doctor can test your blood levels of mercury. Have you tried other canned fish like mackerel or sardines that are lower on the food chain? Thus they’ve accumulated less metals and PCBs.

    40. Key_Cellist_5937 on

      lol I love tuna too . Used to eat a lot of it until I discovered it has insanely high mercury

    42. ihaveopinions11113 on

      I have been telling my mom she needs to stop doing this, too, but she never listens. The doctor sent her blood work a few weeks ago, and guess what?? She’s poisoned 3x more than the limit.

    43. aheart4art on

      Glad you posted this on reddit so you don’t continue to literally poison yourself OP 😭 I would absolutely eat tuna every single day if it was safe to do so. Not sure how you feel about eggs, but egg whites have pretty similar calories and macros and won’t give you heavy metal poisoning 🩷

    44. violent_potatoes on

      At this point how can someone NOT know about tuna mercury poisoning

    47. Rocket_Ship_5 on

      Girl, gotta swith that diet coke for diet tonic, you gonna need that quinine!

    48. Hungry-Spite on

      Nooo don’t do this, I did the same mistake once bcs I love fish and got incredibly dizzy and unwell from consuming too much mercury. I now have two cans a week (150-200g per can), then one day for mackerel and another fresh salmon. From my research I think that was the max safe limit per week but please correct me if I’m wrong.

    49. SadLaser on

      You’re in real danger with that much tuna. Especially if you’re smaller like a lot of us in this subreddit, you should be having 1-3 cans a week, not 14. If you don’t cut back, you’re going to suffer mercury poisoning.

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