Do you want to eat Sushi? Think twice!

i recieved this emails a few years back when i was working...it's true that this thing might happen tou you. it is because the fish meat contain a worm and remember that sushi is uncook food. So the worm still alive there,.. ..but ijust don't understand how the worm can come up to the brain,..and not in the tummy.......

i didnt hear this from eating raw fish, but yea a tapeworm can and does get lost and end up in the brain, i watched a show on it on TLC or Discovery Health, i forgot which channel, but yea there was a case where a mans brain was sharing space with a tapeworm...ew!

I would check that story on www.snopes.com to see if it's true. But if it's true that's gross! Thankfully I don't eat meat, or fish.

i was just reading a while ago in one of the discussions here about a 9 year old kid who have tapeworms in the brain. the parent was asking for info about going to bangkok for help. i was thinking that sushi could not have done that, but tapeworm can exist in brain.

no,i do not like to eat sushi,i can not bear with that taste,i think it is very terrible.it is my own opinion,lol...

You know what i do with forward emails, delete them.What a load of crap! If you were to worry about every little bit of sushi you put in your mouth because there might be a tapeworm in it, well it wouldn't be much fun eating sushi now would it! For me sushi has got to be one of the most healthy of foods you can eat, I,d be more worried about whats inside a big mac!!

I love eating sushi. Actually anything that is japanese. If you have the right person do it, it is very safe. I actually went to japan and that is how I got hooked. The prices of things are dirt cheap there and for a small amount of us money, you can live like a king

I am more concerned about pesticides and mercury in the fish than anything else, and I don't trust the large food processing corporations keeping any food safe for human consumption. I will ask the preparer next time, whether the fish is frozen or farmed. I read an article that says sushi is relatively healthy, but not when it combines with American eating habits. The Japanese have small sushi meals, Americans tend to order roll after roll, with high-fat and high-salt saunces and condiments. I learned something new today - sushi is not raw fish. It is the vinegarized rice that is served with anything, from fish, raw or cooked, to vegebles or eggs.

The problem with an addiction for raw fish in Mr. Fujiwara's case was that he loved it so fresh that I'll bet he liked to buy the fish himself and consume it from a whole-bought (fresher) fish. The problem with that is that it has not been fully inspected for parasites if it has not been cut completely open and checked from top to bottom. The sushi chef has gone to school to learn the art of candling, which involves putting the fish on a highly lighted bar and looking deeply into the flesh, like you would if you held your hand up to a bright light, a flashlight would do. You can see the blood in your fingers. In this way, the chef can see little nodules, some the size of a pinhead, and remove them if there are only a few. A fish that has many nodules would not have been bought by a reputable sushi restaurant. When purchasing fish for your own consumption, in sushi or raw in any other way, you should slice it into the appropriate size for a chunk that will be used for sushi (the pieces not yet cut from the slab) and hold it up to a bright light bulb, or as was done may years ago, to a candle in a dark room. If you see round pinhead sized or larger objects in the flesh, it is not safe to consume it unless it is cooked well. Now you know! Don't get sick. Go to a good sushi house and remember to candle your fish. When on hikes (for trout and such) always cook the fish well over the fire, before consumption. So now nobody has to get sick. Tell your friends!