States that almost all plant foods contain some toxins. A solution he provides is that we should always eat a variety of plant foods, i.e change plant food almost every meal.
That way, your body never accumulates any single toxin in large or dangerous quantities.
Sure I know of anti-nutrients, but reading more about this guy, seems like its just a rando's opinion. I'll take the rat studies please.
I did not say that you should go out & proactively eat cancerous foods.
The book is a very practical book, my only regret is not having bought it earlier.
You should follow the strategy in consuming a variety of plant foods because.
a) It is practically impossible to know the toxins in all plants and thus avoid them proactively.
b) Like I said, almost all plant foods contain some toxins.
So either;
- you starve,
- you build up unhealthy toxins by eating the same plant foods daily
- or you can have many toxins at very (harmless) low levels. By constantly switching your plant food consumption.
DeVany's books is really good. If you like "rat studies" you will definitely like it.
If you want to avoid all toxins ever, you'll have to avoid... basically all food. Oxalic acid, cyanogenic glycosides, etc. are just freaking everywhere. Plants make defense compounds; we're able to handle small amounts of them.
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