Toxic Superfoods Quotes

“You may also have heard that fiber helps prevent kidney stones. But, in a trial with 99 volunteers, researchers at the Kaiser Permanente Medical Center, in Walnut Creek, California, found that a high-fiber, low-purine, low animal-protein diet increased the likelihood of getting another kidney stone—by six times!”
― Sally K. Norton, Toxic Superfoods: How Oxalate Overload Is Making You Sick— And How to Get Better

“Mineral and vitamin shortfalls can result in neurological impairment, such as mood and behavioral problems, learning deficits, poor manual dexterity, weakness, and muscle atrophy. Nutrient deficiency can predispose us to injury, poor recovery, and diseases of all kinds, and it directly contributes to human death. The contribution of oxalates to deficiencies is a key factor in their toxicity.”
― Sally K. Norton, Toxic Superfoods: How Oxalate Overload Is Making You Sick— And How to Get Better

“According to the National Research Council, more than 80 percent of Americans consume a diet deficient in vitamins and minerals.”
― Sally K. Norton, Toxic Superfoods: How Oxalate Overload Is Making You Sick— And How to Get Better

“experiencing occasional oxalate-related aches and pains somewhere in your body. Do you tend to get a stiff neck? In those of us with dietary oxalate overload, pain, knots, or stiffness in the top of the shoulders or in the upper or lower back are typical. Some people experience chronic or intermittent joint inflammation, gout, arthritis, carpal tunnel syndrome, or a more generalized”
― Sally K. Norton, Toxic Superfoods: How Oxalate Overload Is Making You Sick— And How to Get Better

“Growing children have a harder time excreting oxalate and are more susceptible to the effects of nutrient deficiencies and toxic exposures. The oxalate in today’s baby foods featuring high-oxalate grains and pureed vegetables, including sweet potatoes, carrots, and beets, should concern us.”
― Sally K. Norton, Toxic Superfoods: How Oxalate Overload Is Making You Sick— And How to Get Better

“Antioxidant chemicals in foods are mostly powerless over oxalates’ toxic and malnourishing effects.”
― Sally K. Norton, Toxic Superfoods: How Oxalate Overload Is Making You Sick— And How to Get Better

“there may be few benefits of a high fruit and vegetable intake in terms of protecting our cells. What you gain is culinary pleasure.”
― Sally K. Norton, Toxic Superfoods: How Oxalate Overload Is Making You Sick— And How to Get Better

“My own efforts to avoid increasingly numerous food allergies motivated my heavy reliance on sweet potatoes for over 10 years. Sweet potatoes made it easy for me to avoid wheat, soy, and other legumes that I thought were fueling my extreme fatigue and hormonal issues. It didn’t work. Despite careful avoidance of allergens, I went on to need a total hysterectomy, and my fatigue progressed to a devastating collapse that ended my working life and my ability to exercise.”
― Sally K. Norton, Toxic Superfoods: How Oxalate Overload Is Making You Sick— And How to Get Better

“As consumption of butter, eggs, and meat has dropped in the last 30 years, obesity and diabetes have exploded. To fix this, we’re told to eat more low-fat “whole” foods like beans, whole grains, or “high-protein” pseudo-grains like quinoa and buckwheat.”
― Sally K. Norton, Toxic Superfoods: How Oxalate Overload Is Making You Sick— And How to Get Better

“The oxalate in today’s baby foods featuring high-oxalate grains and pureed vegetables, including sweet potatoes, carrots, and beets, should concern us.”
― Sally K. Norton, Toxic Superfoods: How Oxalate Overload Is Making You Sick— And How to Get Better

“Growing children have a harder time excreting oxalate and are more susceptible to the effects of nutrient deficiencies and toxic exposures.”
― Sally K. Norton, Toxic Superfoods: How Oxalate Overload Is Making You Sick— And How to Get Better

“Oxalate has multiple ways to create malnourished bodies. Not only does it block us from accessing minerals in food, but when oxalic acid enters our bloodstream, it also steals minerals from body fluids and cells.”
― Sally K. Norton, Toxic Superfoods: How Oxalate Overload Is Making You Sick— And How to Get Better

“How and what we eat today has led to unimagined troubles as we eat more oxalate than at any time in human history.”
― Sally K. Norton, Toxic Superfoods: How Oxalate Overload Is Making You Sick— And How to Get Better

“Raw spinach, however, has over two to three hundred times the oxalate of lettuce and arugula, with a whopping 600 mg of oxalate (or more) in a 2-cup serving.”
― Sally K. Norton, Toxic Superfoods: How Oxalate Overload Is Making You Sick— And How to Get Better