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Was 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

Was 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 ago
3 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 ago
  I wonder if this is why I felt off, when I drank 4L of coconut oil.
phyzome 3y ago
This 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 ago
  Many types of beans, particularly red kidney beans, have some pretty nasty toxins in them if they are undercooked.
colordrops 3y ago
Which vegetables have cancerous parts?

max_ 3y ago

3 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 ago
I wonder if this is why I felt off, when I drank 4L of coconut oil.

phyzome 3y ago

This 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 ago
Many types of beans, particularly red kidney beans, have some pretty nasty toxins in them if they are undercooked.

colordrops 3y ago

Which vegetables have cancerous parts?