It’s hard to know what’s in the food you eat sometimes. Even when you consume products that are fresh and haven’t been tampered with, they can still contain stuff that’s bad for you. Take fish, for example. They’re supposed to be essential for a healthy diet, yet they contain mercury – a toxic pollutant. Are they safe to eat or not?

It Can Be An Issue

No-one really worried about the mercury in fish until the 1950s. That’s when thousands of people in Minamata, Japan, started experiencing health problems such as convulsions. When the birds and cats began displaying similar symptoms, it became clear that fish were the problem. It turns out they’d been contaminated by wastewater dumped at a chemical factory.

Attacking Their Bodies

The people who’d been poisoned had as much as 705mg/kg of mercury in their bodies, a stark contrast to the 4mg/kg that was considered average. Having so much of this substance in their systems meant their nerves and brains were being damaged.

It’s not fully understood how, but it’s believed it was attacking their myelin, the protective coating around their nerves. Other effects of mercury poisoning are thought to include cardiovascular disease and abnormal blood pressure.

Is It Safe Or Not?

What’s worrying about all this is that mercury is found in many kinds of fish. The level of it differs depending on the species, with swordfish and bluefin tuna a more significant risk compared to salmon, lobster, and squid. However, it’s prevalent in most aquatic life, meaning the dangers are always present.

Of course, if fish were so poisonous, people would have stopped eating them years ago. The reality is that as long as they’re not from polluted areas, they’re not going to cause you harm.

While you should always exercise caution with your food, we’d say you’re safe to keep eating fish.

Sometimes it is the most unconventional relationships that work best and survive the longest. When people from different backgrounds and careers cross paths the rest of their romantic fairytale is history. The same can be the case when two people with a huge age difference find love, and it ends up working the best. These are some of the celebrity couples with the huge age differences which may surprise you but are sure to warm your heart with their love and affection with one another. The last thing we would want is the Hollywood curse to get to them!

They may share the same birthday, but Catherine Zeta-Jone and Michal Douglas were born 25 years apart.

While their large age gap has continued to be a major discussion since they married in 2000, the happy couple has proven that age is nothing but a number and are very much in love. Even with a brief split, the pair knew they are meant for one another, and no talk of their age gap is going to come between the couple.

Nicolas Cage is a hugely successful actor in Hollywood, but it seemed he wasn’t having much luck in his love life till he met Alice Kim. Having been married twice before, it was Kim that won his heart when he met the former waitress, and they got married soon after in 2004.

Over fifteen years later, they have lasted longer than many couples in Hollywood, so it seems that their 20 year age gap has done the couple no harm in their relationship.

No one can miss the love between Harrison Ford and Calista Flockhart. The Hollywood golden couple started dating in 2002 after they met at the Golden Globe Awards. While they may not speak publicly about their love life, they now walk arm in arm down many red carpet events together after initially meeting at one.

While many were happy for the couple when they finally wed in 2010, many may not know that there is actually a 22-year age gap between the two actors.

If you could look up the most beautiful couple in the dictionary, there should be a picture of Matthew McConaughey and Camila Alves. The loved-up couple has never shied from their affection for one another since they met in 2006.

The actor and Victoria’s Secret model have a 14-year age difference between them, but since becoming engaged on Christmas Day in 2011, they have been the perfect match. The couple has three children and live in Austin, Texas.

Cheryl Cole first met Liam Payne when he was just 14 years old and auditioning for The X Factor UK. At the time, the pop singer was a judge on the show and later married her second husband.

It was then, years later, that the British pop stars became romantically involved with one another, regardless of their 10-year age difference. With two failed marriages under her belt, it seems that Cheryl has found true love with Liam and in 2016, gave birth to their son, Bear.

Beyoncé may have sung about a former flame being replaceable, but that is not the case with her longtime beau, Jay-Z. The powerful music duo, who have a 12-year age gap, have been in a relationship since 2008 and have three children together.

They may like to keep their relationship on the down-low, but no one can get enough of the pair and their lifestyles, which they, fortunately, gave a glimpse of when they toured together. The couple that tour together, certainly stay together.

When actress Megan Fox and fellow actor Brian Austin Green began dating in 2004, Fox was just 18 years old. With Green 13 years older, he was already in his thirties, but the pair developed an affection for one another, which resulted in a Hawaiian wedding in 2010.

While the beautiful couple managed to keep their relationship going, with two kids along the way, they briefly split in 2015. It was then announced that Fox was pregnant with their third child, and their relationship seemed to be back on track!

Jerry Hall was in a relationship with Rock’n’Roll legend Mick Jagger for over 20 years, but it seems that this love was not to last and she found love once again with Rupert Murdoch in 2015. Hall fell for the media tycoon regardless of their 25-year age gap, and when the pair married in 2016, Jerry was 60 and Rupert was 85.

In fact, they must ultimately adore one another with Rupert popping the question to his girlfriend in quite the obscure way, and with Jerry still saying yes – the Golden Globes ceremony.

Musical legend Elton John is 15-years older than his husband, Canadian filmmaker David Furnish. However, age has never been an issue in this relationship, having lasted for more than two decades.

This happy duo was among the first couples in the UK to form a civil partnership before it became legal and they went on to have two sons, Zachary and Elijah. Their relationship has not only impacted them, but they have become celebrity icons for same-sex marriages, making it even better!

Eddie Murphy’s rollercoaster love life has been no secret in the media, but hopefully, his most recent love interest, Paige Butcher, will change his past reputation.

The Nutty Professor actor became linked to model Butcher who he has an 18-year age gap, and their romance quickly developed with the welcoming of their first daughter, and Murphy’s ninth child, in 2016. One can only hope he faces no more “irreconcilable differences” as he had with past lovers, and this relationship is the real deal.

When Dick Van Dyke starred as Bert in the 1964 hit Marry Poppins, his current wife was not even born. However, when Van Dyke met makeup artist Arlene Silver at the SAG awards in 2006, it seemed that their age difference could not get in the way of their connection.

The couple married six years later in 2012, and are still going strong. Any relationship that survives Hollywood is worth commending and, although there is a whopping 46-year difference, they have proven it is real love.

Bruce Willis was once married to fellow actress Demi Moore for 13 years, with whom he shares three daughters. However, they amicably divorced and both famous faces went on to marry again and to someone who was significantly younger than them.

While Demi’s relationship with her ex-husband and fellow actor, Ashton Kutcher, failed to last, Bruce’s marriage to Emma Heming seems to be having much more success even though they have a 23 year age difference. Together the couple have two daughters.

Often seen on social media flaunting her fabulous yoga skills, Hilaria sure seems to know what is good for her wellbeing. Given that, she must have known that marrying Alex Baldwin, who is 26-years-old her senior, was also what was best for her!

Regardless of their large age difference, a 59-year-old Alec and a 33-year-old Hilaria are happy in love with three children and living in New York, so age is certainly nothing but a number for them.

Sunny Ozell and Sir Patrick Stewart certainly take the prize when it comes to huge age differences in celebrity couples. The Star Trek actor, 77, met his wife, 38, in 2008 and, with their love blossoming over the years, the pair married in 2013. They did not let their 38-year age difference come between them, and continue to look more in love than ever.

However, with a nearly four-decades age difference between them, it is hard to not keep this as a focus when thinking about the pair.

Pierce Brosnan and Keely Shaye Smith’s relationship is the perfect example if you are looking for a couple whose marriage can survive while in the public eye. The Irish actor met the American journalist in 1994, and seven years later they were married.

Meanwhile, the couple has a ten year age difference, with Brosnan aged 64 and his wife 53. Nevertheless, they have surpassed the 20-year marriage mark, and their relationship could not look more solid if they tried, making them a Hollywood power couple.

Leonardo DiCaprio is rumored to be getting pretty serious with his girlfriend Camila Morrone, despite his notorious ‘modelizing’ ways. Leo and Camila have been dating since December 2017, having been first spotted together the following month in Aspen. However, despite their idyllic romance, the pair’s 22-year age gap has been targeted by trolls, who note that Leo hasn’t publicly dated a woman over 25.

Camila hit back at criticism after she received a deluge of trolling messages when she shared pictures of Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart, who had a 25-year age gap.

She was the one lady who could tie down the most wanted bachelor in the world and, in 2014, it became official that George Clooney was finally off the market.

It was Amal Alamuddin, who is 17 years Clooney’s junior, who won his heart after they met by chance at a charity event.

Mary-Kate Olsen may have grown up in the limelight alongside her twin sister Ashley, but now she has a new partner to share her life with. Even with a 17-year age difference, the former child star fell for the former French president’s half-brother, Olivier Sarkozy, and the pair married in 2015.

At one time, her sister was also with a man who was 28 years older than her, so Mary-Kate and Olivier’s age gap seems like nothing in comparison!

You may recognize both actresses from their success on television, but together they have endured a successful relationship. American Horror Story’s Saul Paulson has been in a relationship with fellow actress Holland Taylor since 2015 and often expresses how happy she is with her partner.

However, no one can miss the huge age gap between the loved-up pair, which is a crazy 32 years. Paulson is 42 and Taylor is 74, but they have made this work regardless of people speaking about the age difference.

Ellen DeGeneres continues to charm an international audience with her daily talk show, but there is one lady in her life that was really won over by her charm, and that is Portia de Rossi.

Even with a 15-year age difference, the happy couple has sustained a romance since 2004 and married four years later. They are often spotted standing side by side and hand-in-hand. It is easy to see that age should not stand in the way of such a strong relationship.

After 12 years of marriage, Kate Beckinsale and her director husband Len Wiseman filed for divorce. Since the split from her former husband in 2016, Kate has been linked to a 22-year-old Instagram model and comedian, Matt Rife.

This is the first guy she has been liked to since her divorce, and the youngster is 22 years younger than the actress who is 44. Matt is just two years older than her daughter, Lily, and Kate is only two years older than Matt’s mom.

AnnaLynne McCord and Dominic Purcell shocked the media when it was made public that the two actors were officially dating. With a 17 year age gap, it seemed a rather peculiar match. However, the former 90210 star and her Prison Break actor boyfriend dated for three years before calling it quits in 2014.

After a break from one another, the couple later reconciled and are back together following Purcell’s diagnosis with skin cancer. McCord expressed, “I’m very happy, I have my best friend back, so it’s cool”.

Her ex-beau may be hitting headlines for dating a 19-year-old and getting negative judgment because of it. However, it cannot be missed that Kourtney Kardashian is also dating someone with the same age difference. With an age gap of 14 years, the 38-year-old reality star has been dating 24-years-old Algerian born model, Younes Bendjima, since 2016.

The mother-of-three tried to keep her new romance under wraps, but since confirming the relationship, the two have been captured out and about in public.

With a 21 year age difference, Warren Beatty and Annette Bening are used to people addressing their age gap. Since they married in 1992, the topic revolving their relationship has always stemmed back to their age gap.

“Everybody who has an age difference in their marriage has to address it at times because you’re at different stages in your life. You’re going through different things. You have to have a fundamental love and mutual respect for one another for it to work.”

Hugh Jackman and his wife Deborra Lee-Furness may have a 13 year age gap between them, but having been married since 1996, their marriage has survived over 20 years.

Jackman knew it was always meant to be with his wife and bought her a special ring with the phrase inscribed: Om paramar mainamar,” which translates to “we dedicate our union to a greater source.” The couple is often pictured looking happy in love with each other and share two adopted children.

Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively met when they were filming Green Lantern in 2010. Soon after, the pair went from friends to romantic partners, and later to husband and wife. They married in 2012 and have since welcomed two daughters into their family – James and Ines.

Meanwhile, Reynolds is ten years older than his wife, but it seems the Deadpool star and the Gossip Girl actress work perfectly together. Even when they are often trolling each other online, they are certainly doing it out of love.

You can often see Desperate Housewives actress, Felicity Huffman and her Shameless actor husband, William Macy, walking hand in hand down the red carpet with one another. However, it took 15 years before the pair tied the knot, having dated on-and-off during those years before.

Finally, in 1997, they were walking down the aisle with one another, and have since welcomed two daughters. While Macy is 12 years Huffman’s senior, they have proven that a relationship can sustain the pressures of Hollywood and have been married for over 20 years.

She is famous for her role as Peyton Sawyer on One Tree Hill, while he played the villain in The Walking Dead, but these two actors have been a power couple since 2009. In 2014, Hilarie Burton and Jeffrey Morgan got married, but the couple had welcomed their son, Augustus Morgan, in 2010.

In February 2018, Burton revealed on her Instagram page that the couple had welcomed their daughter, George Virginia Morgan. Burton and Morgan have been going strong for nearly ten years even with their 16 year age gap.

Amber Tamblyn, 35, married comedian David Cross, 54, in 2012. Best known for his roles in Mr. Show and Arrested Development, Cross began dating fellow actress Amber and, four years later, they became engaged. Amber rose to stardom on General Hospital as Emily Quartermaine and has since gone on to star in hit films such as The Ring and The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants.

On February 21, 2017, the couple, who have a 19 year age gap, announced that Tamblyn had given birth to their daughter, Marlow Alice Cross.

The Last Tycoon actor, Matt Bomer, married his publicist boyfriend, Simon Halls, in 2011. Bomer is a Golden Globe Award winner and a Primetime Emmy Awards nominee, who is best known for making independent films. While the couple, who have a 13 year age gap, married officially in 2011, it only became public news in 2014.

Speaking of their wedding, Bomer said they wished to keep it small and intimate. Before saying their vows, however, they welcomed three sons via surrogacy – Kit Halls, born in 2005, and twin brothers, Walker and Henry Halls, born in 2008.

They may be known for the roles on True Blood, but co-stars Stephen Moyer and Anna Paquin actually began dating while filming the first season of the hit show. The HBO series ran from 2008 until 2014, but the pair got married in 2010, just two years after they first met.

While they continued to work on set, off-set they welcomed fraternal twins, Charlie and Poppy, in September 2012. They are siblings to Moyer’s two kids from his previous marriage, Billy and Lilac.

Viola Davis and Julius Tennon have been married since 2003. Regardless of their 12 year age gap, this power couple has proven that age is nothing but a number. In 2011, Davis, 53, and Tennon, 64, adopted a daughter, and Tennon is also father to two children from previous relationships.

Davis is the only black woman to date that has won an Oscar (she has won a total of three), an Emmy and a Tony. Her standout performances include her roles in The Help and ABC’s television drama, How to Get Away with Murder.

Heroes and Star Trek star, Zachary Quinto, has been dating model Miles McMillan, who is 12 years his junior, since 2013. The 41-year-old and the 29-year-old have been very public with their relationship, often being sited walking on red carpets with one another, or walking the streets of New York City.

The couple moved in with one another in 2015, to an apartment in Manhattan in which they purchased together. Vogue magazine expressed that Quinto and McMillan are “a power couple whose domain extends across the film, fashion, and art scene.”

Olivia Wilde and Jason Sudeikis started dating in 2011 and hit it off instantly. It did not seem to bother them that they had a 9-year age difference, and two years after meeting, they were engaged. Although they still have not officially married, the couple is going strong and, at the age of 42, Jason and his partner, Olivia, aged 33, are happy in love.

They also have had two children while being together – a boy named Alexander, and a daughter named Daisy.

This couple seems to work together both on and off-camera, having starred alongside together on the film The Light Between Oceans, where they met – the 2014 flick about a post World War 1 Australian couple. It is no surprise that Michael Fassbender and Alicia Vikander were attracted to one another since they are both, undeniably, very good-looking.

Swedish actress Alicia is 11 years younger than Fassbender, but that did not stop the couple from marrying in October 2017, and they are undoubtedly going to have beautiful children.

Thinking about their age difference is probably not the first thing when you look at this couple since they have very different careers, backgrounds, and even height. The couple also has a 13-year age difference just to add to the mix, but all of it has seemed to work for the couple.

While Heroes actress Panettiere and her Ukrainian boxer husband Wladimir Klitschko have been on-and-off since their relationship began in 2009, they seem to be going strong. They welcomed their daughter, Kaya, in 2004.

Jenner and Gamble have been together for years and much of their relationship has been displayed on Keeping Up With The Kardashians. 

Despite the huge age difference between the couple, they have managed to make it work for the past couple of years.

Baywatch star David Hasselhoff has had ladies swooning over him for decades, but the latest girl to steal his heart is 27 years his junior. His longtime girlfriend Hayley Roberts shares the same name as Hasselhoff’s daughter from a previous marriage, but their long-term relationship resulted in the duo becoming engaged in 2016.

Having been married and divorced twice previously, here’s to hoping that third time is a charm for The Hoff. Perhaps the age difference is what will make all the difference this time around.

When Jason Statham and Rosie Huntington-Whitely got together in 2010, the couple soon became a powerful British duo and were a significant media topic. The Transporter actor and his strikingly beautiful model fiancé have a 20 year age gap, but that has not stopped their love from blossoming ever since they met.

In June 2017, Rosie Huntington-Whitely gave birth to their son, Jack, and judging by his parent’s looks, we are sure Jack is going to be very genetically gifted.

Carey was once married to Nick Cannon, who was 10 years her junior, but her new toy-boy is her back-up dancer Bryan Tanaka. With a 13-year age gap, the pair came out as a couple after the release of Carey’s reality show, Mariah’s World, which showed Carey’s life while touring and her then engagement to James Packer.

However, over the course of the series, it became evident that there was a romantic connection between Mariah and Tanaka. Consequently, it was later revealed that her engagement to Packer was called off, and that Carey and Tanaka began a relationship.

Who says an older woman can’t find the love of her life in a younger man? Heidi Klum recently married her husband Tom Kaulitz and the two couldn’t be happier. Klum and Kaulitz, who have a 16-year age gap between them, met in February 2018 and formed an instant connection over their shared nationality – they are both German.

For Heidi, Tom is a breath of fresh air, and it didn’t take long for the two to fall into an easy rhythm and in time, fall madly in love.

The Kardashian sisters are known for their crazy relationships. This is Kourtney (40) and Younes’s (26) second go at love – the couple started dating in the summer of 2017, splitting up nearly a year later. The couple rekindled their romance in December 2019 as sparks were seen when the two were first spotted in Miami before heading to Disneyland a couple weeks later.

Although speculations about their relationship blew up the internet, their romance was only confirmed in a Christmas Eve pic that Kardashian posted.

Kourntey’s ex, Scott Disick, has also found himself a younger love. After Scott and Kourtney’s nine-year relationship ended, Disick was romantically linked to many young stars for brief periods of time – but then he met Sofia.

Lionel Richie’s daughter and Disick have been together and going strong for a couple of years now, and it doesn’t seem like that’s going to change any time soon – if anything the couple’s relationship just keeps getting stronger. The couple has been seen on family vacations together and constantly featured each other on their social media pages.

After only two months of dating, Nick and Priyanka got engaged in mid-2018. The couple had a lavish wedding complete with two ceremonies and multiple celebrations in December of that year. Fans have been commenting on the age difference since the couple started seeing each other – yet they say they couldn’t care less.

Nick loves that he is married to an older woman, he has said it makes Chopra even more attractive to him. We can’t wait to see this strong bond continue to grow!

Despite their nasty divorce – Amber Heard and Johnny Depp were once one of Hollywood’s favorite couples. The two met while filming The Rum Diary in 2011 and began living together the following year, and the 23-year age gap did not seem to bother either of them.

The actors made it official in 2015 when they tied the knot but ended things shortly after in 2017. Their divorce drew media attention and although they are not together anymore their divorce is still making headlines.

Franco and Pakzad have reportedly been dating since November 2017 – though the actor rarely seems to talk about his love life. While Franco may be in the limelight more often than many other celebrities, he keeps certain aspects of his life totally personal.

In July 2018 the couple debuted on the red carpet together and have been going strong ever since. As for Isabel, she is getting her Masters in integrated design, business, and technology at the University of Southern California.

Katherine Schwarzenegger married actor Chris Pratt in a low-key ceremony on June 8, 2019. The two had been engaged after months of dating. It was Katherine’s mother, Maria Shriver, who initially played matchmaker for the couple and set them up.

Since the beginning of their relationship, the couple has been very open on social media so it didn’t come as much of a surprise when they shared matching Instagram posts after their wedding ceremony, calling it “the best day of our lives.”

Some stars find true love later in life – that was the case for actress Daryl Hannah and singer Neil Young. The couple have 15 years between them and started dating in 2014.

The couple tied the knot in 2018 and Young confirmed the news when she shared a video online urging fans to vote and referred to Hannah as his “wife”. The couple had two ceremonies, one on Neil’s yacht and a more lavish one in California.

Braff and the 23-year-old Little Women star reportedly started dating in April 2019, when they were photographed holding hands in New York City. They were seen attending the Los Angeles premiere of Marriage Story in November but walked on the red carpet separately.

The couple has received many comments on their age difference, but the young actress has defended her new boyfriend on every occasion – proving age ain’t nothing but a number.

Comedian and actor Dane Cook and his 20-year-old singer girlfriend, Kelsi Taylor, have been dating for more than two years. The two met during a game night Cook hosted at his home and the couple has stayed strong ever since – despite their 27-year age difference.

In an emotional Instagram post celebrating their two-year anniversary, Cook referred to Taylor as his best friend, expressing how special their relationship is to him and how very special she makes him feel.

The world may have watched his love life with Rachel blossom on-screen, but away from the cameras and the set of Friends, Ross’s real life was slightly different. Actor David Schwimmer waited till he was 44-years-old to settle down and get married.

Schwimmer married part-time photographer Zoe Buckman, and together the couple had a daughter named Cleo born in 2011. The couple have an impressive 19 year age gap between them, meaning Zoe was just 25 when they got married.

Jeff Goldblum may be widely known for starring in one of the highest-grossing films of all time, Jurassic Park, but he is also married to a woman of which they have a large age difference. When Jeff married Emilie Livingston in 2014, the actor was 62, and his Olympic gymnast wife was 31, giving them a 31-year age gap.

However, they don’t seem not to take notice of the age gap, living happily together since their wedding. The pair also shares two sons.

Maroon 5 frontman, Adam Levine, married his model girlfriend, Behati Prinsloo when he was 35, and she was 25. Regardless of the decade that separates the two, they have managed to build a beautiful relationship with one another. After marrying in 2014, the couple welcomed their first child, Dusty, three years later.

So, while he is not owning the stage and giving a star-studded performance, he is with his loving family. They also continue to make public appearances with one another, and the chemistry between the talented pair is palpable.

During the time of his election, Emmanuel Macron was making headlines for his romance with wife Brigitte Trogneux. Although he became the youngest president at the age of 39 in 2017, people were had their opinions on his 25-year age gap with Trogneux.

64-year-old Brigitte was once Macron’s teacher, and the now-married couple met when Emmanuel was a 15-year-old high school student. They have ignored stories of their unconventional romance and are sure to prove their critics wrong.

Sam and Aaron Taylor-Johnson first met when a 42-year-old Sam was directing a 19-year-old Aaron on the set of the 2009 John Lennon biopic, Nowhere Boy.

Although they have their fair share of haters, it seems that love was blind when it came to this couple, and even with a 23-year age difference, nothing was going to come between them. Since their initial meeting, they have had two daughters together, and it seems that it was a romance that was just meant to be.