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Art DeVany in his book, "The New Evolutionary Diet". States that almost all plant foods contain some toxins. A solution he provides is that we should always ea
by max_ 3y ago
Art DeVany in his book, "The New Evolutionary Diet".
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.
- hospitalJail 3y agoWas the book better than your advice? Because that is pretty generic advice that has the potential to be dangerous(Chem engineer here). Don't eat the cancerous part of the vegetable EVER. 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.
- max_ 3y ago3 sentences can never fully fully depict what someone has written in an entire book of hundreds of pages. So I understand how you might have misinterpreted my statement. 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.
- b112 3y agoI wonder if this is why I felt off, when I drank 4L of coconut oil.
- phyzome 3y agoThis is pretty uncontroversial advice. In ecology, it's called being a "generalist". (And humans are generalists.) 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.
- Turing_Machine 3y agoMany types of beans, particularly red kidney beans, have some pretty nasty toxins in them if they are undercooked.
- colordrops 3y agoWhich vegetables have cancerous parts?
- mechhacker 3y agoMan, hadn't heard that name in a while. Looks like he's still around. His twitter points to his homepage, but that looks to have been taken over by someone with the same name. All of his stuff must be on facebook now, shame.
- mechhacker 3y agoDug pretty far back to get his older site: https://web.archive.org/web/20120103091953/http://arthurdevany.com/ https://web.archive.org/web/20120103091953/http://arthurdeva...