Guest guest Posted March 6, 2009 Report Share Posted March 6, 2009 While I consider this more micro-management of marginal influences, these natural toxins are no doubt part of the beneficial "whole" we receive from several foods (sprouts, etc). Of course too much of these "good" things can be bad just like not enough. I would be more inclined to advise against gaming nutritional efficiency by living off massive amounts of some single vegetable (organic or not). As with any poison the dose is what matters. Diversity can be useful in foods and asset classes.JR On Mar 5, 2009, at 5:43 PM, Maco wrote:The other point long made by the legendary genius Bruce Ames (as in the Ames mutagenicity test) is that organic products, necessarily, have many more highly potent endotoxins than "normal" produce because, being stressed by environmental attackers, they secrete usually not-well-identified toxins to protect their own integrity.So when we choose an "organic" diet, we are thrusting ourselves into the unprobed regions of toxicity because most of these natural endotoxins--a few of which have been shown to be potently poisonous or highly mutagenic--are mostly uncharted, ununderstood, and not worthy anyone's time or money to fully characterize.I'll stick with washed-off pesticides that _have_ been well-characterized, personally.MacoAt 12:47 PM 03/05/2009, you wrote: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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