آزمون آنلاین انگلیسی 3 - انگلیسی 3 | آزمون شماره 10374

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For someone who watches her diet as much as Wendy Moro, the symptoms didn’t add up. She was so weak. Why would someone who eats so healthily feel so unhealthy? She says doctor after doctor didn’t understand her condition. Then, Wendy and her current doctor began to suspect the answer was on her plate.

“A few times a week I was having fish, whether it was once or three times or four times,” says Wendy. “What kind of fish? Swordfish, ahi, tuna and sea bass, the highest mercury-content fish sold in the commercial market,” says Dr. Jane Hightower. Mercury enters the ocean with commercial pollution. It works its way up the food chain. Apparently, mercury goes into some of the most popular fish on the market. Wendy’s doctor, Dr. Jane Hightower, was suspicious. She began testing dozens of her Bay Area patients. All of her patients ate great amounts of fish. Most of them tested high for mercury in their systems.

“I was seeing hair loss, fatigue, muscle ache, headache, feeling just an ill feeling.” Hightower said.The symptoms began to clear up when Hightower cut the amount of fish in their diets.

“If I had known, I could have prevented so much heartache and illness in my life,” said Wendy. “I’m very sad,” Wendy said. “I feel the government had this knowledge. This information should have been shared with the public”.

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