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"At the time, I was unaware that coal burning is the most significant source of mercury emissions. I breathed that air every day. At the time I knew nothing of mercury, nor had I heard about genetic polymorphisms. But it turns out that I am missing a key gene necessary for the detoxification of mercury and many other twenty-first-century poisons, the GSTM1 gene. About half our population is missing this gene. It turns out that it is the sick half! Shortly after I returned home to the beautiful Berkshire mountains of western Massachusetts, I became ill with chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS)." - Mark Hyman MD, The UltraMind Solution: Fix Your Broken Brain by Healing Your Body First (Get the book.) "These industrial emissions threaten our health and the health of our planet. Global warming and chronic health problems are triggered by the same emissions. How can these known neurotoxins not affect our brains? How exactly do they harm our brains? What can we do to protect and detoxify ourselves? These are questions that medicine must face and answer. Each person responds differently to toxins. Some are great detoxifiers; others, like me and those with autism, ADHD, Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and depression, are often not." - Mark Hyman MD, The UltraMind Solution: Fix Your Broken Brain by Healing Your Body First (Get the book.)

"In the United States, power plants are the leading source of mercury contamination and are responsible for about 40 percent of mercury emissions. In response to the 2004 advisory, the National Resources Defense Council, an environmental advocacy group, and MoveOn.org, a group organizing grassroots opposition to the administration of President George W. Bush, sponsored a joint advertisement headlined "First Arsenic, Now Mercury: George Bush's EPA and the Politics of Pollution." - Marion Nestle, What to Eat (Get the book.) "During the 1990s, under the administration of President Bill Clinton, the EPA imposed rules that reduced mercury emissions from most other industries —except power plants. In 2000, with the environment-friendly vice president Al Gore running for president, the EPA decided to take on this last remaining source and ruled that power plant emissions violated the Clean Air Act." - Marion Nestle, What to Eat (Get the book.) "When I asked the most active seafood trade association, the National Fisheries Institute, if it had filed comments calling for stronger controls on mercury emissions and, if so, what the institute had said, its communications director wrote back: "This just in: we did not file comments." To my query "Why Not?," there was no response. Instead of doing everything possible to get emissions reduced, the fish industry takes the short-term tack and publicly ignores or tries to minimize methylmercury as a health problem." - Marion Nestle, What to Eat (Get the book.) "That is why mercury emissions are such an important issue, remote as coal-burning power plants may seem from the fish you buy at supermarkets. DEALING WITH THE METHYLMERCURY DILEMMA How much of what kind of fish you can safely eat depends on what fish it is and who you are. Since you have no way of knowing the methylmercury content of a particular fish, the best you can do is guess." - Marion Nestle, What to Eat (Get the book.)

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