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Article: Seafood mercury blamed for ills
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- The Sun, San Bernardino, Calif.
- Article date:
- March 13, 2005
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David Wright suffered mood swings, joint pain and seemingly
nonstop headaches before he discovered what appeared to be the cause.
Dan Deeter lived as a near-invalid for about three years, wracked
with pain, until a doctor performed a special test and he changed his
diet.
And while Mike Brown "feels great,' he nevertheless wonders about
long-term damage.
All three Inland Empire men ate a lot of fish, including fresh
bluefin tuna, fresh swordfish and canned tuna. And all three had off-
the-chart levels of a toxic heavy metal in their systems: mercury.
"My reading was so high, it's one you usually only read on an
autopsy,' Brown said he was told by his physician.
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