ELLE Magazine's April issue explores how most health-conscious eaters may be exposing themselves to dangerous levels of mercury. For years fish has been a dietary staple among weight-watchers and most health-conscious consumers. Many believe that omega-3 fatty acids in salmon and tuna can prevent heart disease and wrinkles as well as make their brains both brainier and less susceptible to depression.

However, Dr. Jane Hightower, [an Internal medicine specialist] reports in ELLE's April issue, that a dangerous level of mercury is found in some very common types of fish: swordfish, shark, ahi, canned tuna. She discusses three-year study that led to her concluding that too much of wrong kind of fish can give you a nasty case of mercury poisoning.

Hightower reports symptoms of mercury poisoning to include fatigue, headaches, hair loss, and neurological problems, ranging from numbness, muscle weakness, altered vision and hearing, slurred speech, to convulsions and dementia.

This elbow tendonitis came about from an overuse of any exercise. With increased weight, I eventually reached a peak of classic overuse of joints. Not sure of a treatment, I did first thing I could. Adjust my form. Keeping elbows locked in on triceps movements is critical. It can alleviate if not remove pressure on joints when doing a very heavy exercise movement. This was my first elbow tendonitis treatment experiment.

Continuing week after week with my new form, pain was less severe, but it was not a full treatment. Some of elbow tendonitis symptoms became less painful but general pain was always present. This has an acute effect on your motivation to continue to do exercises. Doing triceps exercises (dips, skull crushers, one arm and two arm overhead extensions, rope pushdowns) has always been something I look forward to with each arm workout. But with anything that is painful, your body doesn’t want to do it. In fact, continuing and pushing past pain “no pain no gain” mantra, I would have eventually damaged my joints beyond repair.