[surferjoe2007]

Surferjoe, what do you think about the ''vodka'' theory? Alcohol is an aromatizer.. And Scandinavian people drink quite a bit during winter time, (I've heard) because its also cold there.

Oh I thought she was joking. I haven't heard about that so I have no idea. Could be? I quickly found this study: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11163119 . The smaller amount at the end translated to human weight equals about 10 shots a day for a prolonged period of time, and mainly in men; it's unclear how well it works in women. I think you'd kill your liver first.

Thanks for confirming that there's a big drinking culture, there are only 2 things that I dont do and thats consuming fish oil and drinking strong liquor. I'm weary about the fish oil, since in many fishs and fish oils there's a lot of heavy metals.
And where dont the EU makes strict rules about I think we really became one unhealthy economical country. Instead of country';s with boarders, they are just symbolic now.

Heavy metals bind to protein not oil so fish oil is heavy metal free. Most of them also advertise this fact on their label. Plus the amount in most fish is negligible. Only the larger fish have a decent amount. Basically every step in the food chain is around a 10-fold increase in heavy metals, because a fish eats 10 times its weight over its life. Smaller fish have exponentially less, and larger fish exponentially more. Almost all common fish have a negligible amount except tuna, and even tuna is fine twice a week. And there's a pretty good margin of safety in that limit. And it has to accumulate over time to be harmful. So if you had 8 servings of tuna one week and no tuna for the next 3 weeks that's totally fine. Swordfish and shark have far more than tuna and it's hard to say if heavy eaters of these fish suffer any negative effects at all, in spite of being far beyond the recommended limit. IIRC most worrisome harmful effects occurred in Eskimos eating whales (natives are exempt from the whaling ban IIRC). If you get line caught tuna not only is it better for fish conservation it's a smaller tuna so it has far less heavy metals too.

The biggest estrogen pollutants I know of are pesticides accumulating in animal fat and BPA in metal can liners and receipts. Acidic foods like fruit, tomato and cola tend to leach the can liner more. But many brands are now advertising to be BPA free.