Monday 11 February 2013
Toxins
What is a toxin?
At the simplest level,
a toxin is something capable of causing disease or damaging tissue when it
enters the body. When most people hear the word “toxin”, they think of
chemicals like pesticides, heavy metals or other industrial pollutants. But
even beneficial nutrients like water, which are necessary to sustain life, are
toxic at high doses.
In
their book The Perfect Health Diet, Paul & Shou-Ching Jaminet
apply the economic principle of declining marginal benefits to toxins:
It implies that the first bit eaten of any toxin has low toxicity. Each additional bit is slightly more toxic than the bit before. At higher doses, the toxicity of each bit continues to increase, so that the toxin is increasingly poisonous.This is important to understand as we discuss the role of dietary toxins in contributing to modern disease. Most of us won’t get sick from eating a small amount of sugar, cereal grain, soy and industrial seed oil. But if we eat those nutrients (or rather anti-nutrients) in excessive quantities, our risk of developing modern diseases rises significantly.
Our world is actually full of toxins.
Do you enjoy your morning coffee everyday? The capsaicin in the spicy Mexican and Thai dishes, or having lunch with typical fresh meat from cows, pigs or chicken? Or even sometimes you have bread, pastries, muffins, crackers, cookies, soda, fruit juice? and you know some of these are unhealthy so you tend to eat more fruits and vegetables.
How many times in a day you use your make-up and personal care products? Or have some medicine for your headache or fever? Everything we use daily contains toxins, but we just don’t know it. But how?
Some them are all natural chemicals that are actually toxic, even quite a bit more toxic than a typical pesticide today. Nothing wants to be eaten, everything wants to survive, and to do that a capacity to defend itself against predators has developed. So, for vegetables and plants this is the development of phytoalexins. Compounds that can cause toxicity to the predators when the predators eat a leaf or plant and deter further eating.
From your meat, some of them are pumped with hormone. To obtain the optimum weight gain in the minimum time, feedlot managers administer a variety of pharmaceuticals to their cattle, including growth-stimulating hormones and feed additives. Anabolic steroids, in the form of small time-release pellets, are implanted in the animals' ears. cattle are given estradiol, testosterone, and progesterone. The hormones stimulate the cells to produce additional protein, adding muscle and fat tissue more rapidly.
But these just a portion, and there're a whole bunch of them that we still need to know. Check out the sources and effects, how to detox, and cleansing
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