r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/RaisinAloneVortex • 10d ago

Video The correct way to eat Sushi

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u/Axxisol 10d ago

I am very pregnant at the moment and actually drooling at this video. Omg I want real sushi again!! 😫

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u/Larpizard-Y 9d ago

Dont listen to these other bums, hope you avoid it for the rest of pregnancy. Good luck tho

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u/Same-Suggestion-1936 9d ago

Yeah, technically one alcoholic beverage or one cigarette during pregnancy isn't really gonna do anything, you don't do it anyway though, why would you. Minimize every single risk to the baby. A beer isn't gonna give your kid fetal alcohol syndrome but it's still not the best for it. You can wait, imagine mothers who have to quit smoking, that's worse than a sushi craving and they do it for their child

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u/kenziemc99 9d ago

As a pregnant woman who quit nic cold turkey and haven’t had (and won’t have) sushi while pregnant, in my personal experience, the craving for a good salmon roll STRONGLY exists everyday and i dont miss nicotine in the slightest. Food cravings are real. My first meal after i give birth will be a shit ton of sushi. Sorry this really turned into me venting about my yearning for sushi. 🍣

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u/Say-tan 9d ago

Unagi rolls (eel) use grilled meat and eel is low in mercury. The sugar and salt content of the unagi sauce is probably the biggest concern.

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u/lizbunbun 9d ago

In her book Expecting Better, Emily Oster says that generally sushi is fine during pregnancy, just stay away from high mercury fish and stick to higher quality establishments (no gas station sushi). The main risk is salmonella, the risk isnt increased because you're pregnant.

But deli meat has to be cooked to steaming to be safe in pregnancy, according to Oster. The risk is Listeria, which is fairly low, but if it does happen it can cause severe complications so not worth it.

The warning against sushi in pregnancy was apparently about Listeria but it is rarely transmitted in raw fish and is much more common in unpasteurized cheese and deli meats.

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u/TyloPr0riger 9d ago

If someone's worried about mercury, they can also just have an avocado/chicken/tofu roll instead of fish.

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u/panda_98 9d ago

I was so fucking mad that the food at my baby shower that my work threw for me was all variations of deli meat. I'm just sitting there like "I can't eat ANY of this, and this is what yall got for me?"

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u/Likeadize 9d ago

Emily Oster

What makes her an expert on this? All i can find is that she is an economist, not a doctor, OBGYN or related ph.d

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u/lizbunbun 9d ago edited 9d ago

Economists' primary function is looking at data and learning about the underlying mechanisms at play, particularly human factors. The issues being assessed in Oster's book are relatively straightforward, statistical results from a study on a group of people who just so happen to be pregnant.

A doctor's got a pregnant patient asking about sushi. Doc remembers there's some small chance of Listeria with cold meats and that can include raw fish. He can be held legally liable for bad advice, and some patients might buy that sketchy gas station sushi. So out of an abundance of caution he just blanket statement says "best not risk it at all" and leaves it at that. Doc is a GP and doesn't bother digging further into Listeria rates because he's not a microbiologist.

But Oster the economist says hey what are the odds of Listeria contamination on food anyway? And finds out that the data shows a very low probability of Listeria being found with fish, but higher rates with deli meat. Salmonella is a risk but the risk isn't higher for pregnant women, not going to impact baby's development. So the economist has determined that while not risk free, the odds of Listeria from sushi are very low, and the salmonella risk isnt a huge threat either.

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u/Evening_Ticket7638 9d ago

I read in a book once that drinking cow urine while pregnant helps keep the baby healthy. So it must be true. Screw what the medical advice is. One book told me something.

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u/lizbunbun 9d ago

Yeah and you probably thought invermectin (horse dewormer) protected against Covid because you saw it on Facebook.

The book I referenced is a compendium of scientific studies on pregnancy, with cited papers.

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u/Evening_Ticket7638 9d ago

Great. How many of those citations did you read? What did they say?

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u/lizbunbun 9d ago edited 9d ago

I did pull a few of them up when I read the first edition 10y ago. It's now in its 2nd edition I think.

The point of the book is going over the original studies that are the sources of conventional advice that maternity doctors give, but their advice is nearly always "best not to risk it". Actually going over what the study basis was, the rigorousness of the research, the findings they show in their analyses, and the takeaways on whether the conclusions agree with the data, what the findings mean directionally for practical implementation. And what other research has been done to validate/refute these findings. So yeah I actually pulled some of the cited papers, the ones on alcohol consumption, and ibuprofen and Tylenol, and vitamin k shots for the baby.

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u/Hnry_Dvd_Thr_Awy 9d ago

Sushi and deli meat are both fine. People are wayyyyyy to worried about that shit. 

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u/evewashere 9d ago

I got listeria from deli meat during one of my pregnancies and lost my baby. It’s rare but it can happen and it was not worth it

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u/ButtholeConnoisseur7 9d ago

But according to this redditor, you're worrying about nothing

Too many people here are terrified to admit they don't know something

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u/Hnry_Dvd_Thr_Awy 9d ago

Entirely hidden post history = not worth engaging with 

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u/evewashere 9d ago

Why do you need to look at my post history? Why do you care? No other social media is open to see everyone’s post about something.