I am currently experimenting with eating large quantities of oysters and enjoying myself.
http://www.eczemacure.info/blog/2009/02/13/oyster-cure-the-best-zinc-supplement-in-the-world/
Can you share your experiences with oysters?
Oysters are known as nature's greatest marine bioaccumulators of toxic heavy metals. They accumulate huge amounts of zinc-toxic for human beings-( who said so much zinc is healthy?)cadmium, lead, arsenic,copper, mercury,etc and most importantly they will do this regardless of the water purity of their environment but naturally the more available heavy metals are in polluted waters the worse it gets. However any sea water contains trace amounts of heavy metals and because oysters and clams filter and accumulate these by concentrating them in their organs and shells in huge amounts this makes them a very bad choice if all good one has to say about eating them is that they are rich in zinc which supposedly increases libido. This might only be the case provided that one is very deficient in zinc, something that is almost impossible when feeding on a proper RPD.
As a matter of fact in the case of cadmium because the rate of absorption is speeded up by the increase of water temperature in the summer months it can often result in the massive destruction in oyster populations.
Just because oysters are supposed to be good for you and just because you might be able to afford buying them I dont think that they are a healthy source of nutrients. The risk/reward ratio is lousy.
Of course if one eats just a few oysters occasionally that should't be too much of a problem like doing any thing that is harmful from time to time would probably not do permanent harm.
