Please respond if you can help me answer at least one of these questions.

- Can beef be replaced by deer meat in my diet or do they have too much of a differene.
- I've recently heard a lot of concern about the mercury content of tuna, is it possible to get too much in a day. (I take in about 12oz. per day.)

Thanks for taking the time to help out, all responses will be appreciated.

Randle, As for the deer meat, protien wise it should be very close to beef, but i would think it would be different fat wise. I would say it would be probably close to 96% lean. I think in general it would be a great substitute, and I would include it if i had access to it. I can't really comment on the tuna but I really don't think the mercury scare is anything to worry about. The way I look at it is that its a little extra minerals in your diet.

hey bob,

thanks for your input. It's deer season here and this could save me a ton of money.

Is there no one else that knows anything about one of the two.

Deer and tuna. Deer is good, very very low fat content, if any! Beef may be the best as far as muscle building, but there is nothing wrong with using deer. It's much like chicken or pork. They are useful, but the bottomline, want to build muscle, EAT MUSCLE. I say, "GO FOR IT!"

I don't have the amino profiles, perhaps someone has the link for you to compare to beef. I don't have it anymore. On another board, deer was highly recommended.

Hmmm. There's a lot of deer running around here. Antelope, elk, and bear, too.

Get this: It is not illegal if I were to see a deer, to get out of my vehicle and shoot it. As long as I am more than 40 feet from the highway and not sitting in the car. WOW! As much as I eat, for each one I shoot, I'm going to paint a little deer on my windshield. LOL

Tuna? I'm eating salmon. I lost my taste for tuna. I just cannot get myself to open a can/bag. In fact, I went a few more hours without eating because I didn't want to open a can of tuna. I opened the salmon after all. Salmon in a bag is much cheaper, too. I get it for $1.78 for a 7 oz. bag. Tuna in a bag is way out of that price range.

Frank

http://www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/cgi-bin/nut_search.pl

Type in venison and you can find out the amino acid breakdown, kcal, fat, etc.

vanessa and tom

thanks for the link, it seems like it would be usefull in answering a lot of my questions.

Regarding the tuna, if you are eating canned, you have nothing to worry about. Fresh, I'm not sure. Different fish have different mercury levels, and I can't remember where tuna falls. I think in general, fish lower on the food chain tend to have less mercury than ones higher on the foodchain. In my own opinion though, people have been eating fish for thousands of years, so I wouldn't worry excessively about it.