Eating fish brains regularly
The longer the fish is raised, the higher the heavy metal content in its brain. Eating fish brains can potentially lead to poisoning. The parts of the fish that have the highest levels of mercury are ranked as follows: fish brain, fish skin, fish meat, fish eggs.
For example, in carp, the mercury content in 200g of fish skin, fish meat, and fish eggs is very low, but when compared to the 200g of fish skin, the mercury content has increased by 5 times in less than 400g, while in the fish brain, it increases by more than 20 times. Therefore, those who enjoy eating fish brains should remember that the older the fish, the more they should avoid eating it to prevent poisoning.
Eating raw fish and fish salad
The habit of eating raw fish and fish salad naturally exposes most fish species to parasites. If you eat raw fish, these parasites will invade your body, causing harm to your liver, making it infected with parasites, and even leading to liver cancer. In addition, fish can eat eggs of parasites that live in their environment.
When entering an animal’s body, the parasite eggs develop into larvae and parasite cysts residing in the animal’s internal organs. One of the parasites that fish become infected with is tapeworms. Moreover, if this type of parasite is not eliminated, it can spread to the human body and reside in the intestines of humans for many years, causing severe abdominal pain, weight loss, and anemia.
Eating fish maw
According to folk beliefs, eating fish maw helps to cool down the body, detoxify, improve vision, make the eyes bright, reduce coughing. At the same time, fish maw also helps to enhance male sexual ability. Therefore, many people want to use fish maw. However, scientific research has shown that fish maw provides enzymes, but it also contains many toxins such as tetrodotoxin, which is harmful to the nervous system and can cause fatigue, respiratory distress, and behavioral disorders.
Eating fish maw can also cause poisoning, bacterial infection, acute bleeding, and even death. Therefore, when preparing fish maw, avoid breaking it and avoid having fish maw splatter into your eyes.
Eating fish while taking cough medicine
According to nutrition experts, when you are taking cough medicine, you should stay away from fish. The main reason is that people who have been coughing for a long time and have to use medication should not eat fish, especially sea fish, to avoid allergies. Sea fish contains a high amount of histamine, which, when ingested into the body in excess, will enter the blood circulation process, causing an allergic reaction to histamine. Therefore, you should stay away from fish when treating cough and throat inflammation.
Eating salted fish
Many of us like to eat salted fish because they are fragrant and delicious. But few people know that salted fish contains a lot of salt, and during the salting process, it produces a certain amount of nitrite – a cancer-causing substance that has been warned by the World Health Organization (WHO). Some experts have even proved that eating a kilogram of salty fish is equivalent to smoking 250 cigarettes. If you eat this type of fish too often for a long time, it can make your blood pressure unstable or cause significant harm to our bodies, even leading to cancer.
