Since the operation, Mr. Nadler said, he has had to change his eating habits drastically because he feels terribly uncomfortable if he eats too much.

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Mixing it up reduces the chances that you are getting too much of a single contaminant, he says, adding that the lower one eats on the food chain, the less of an impact one has.

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