Sentences with phrase «toxins than animal foods»

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Because seaweed is at the bottom of the food chain (where it is eaten by other animals), the concentration of toxins in seaweed is much less than in fish or other animals that eat the seaweed.

Rather than condemning animal protein or even protein itself, we should be asking whether there is an intermediate level of protein that maximizes our protection against the small doses of toxins to which we are exposed every day, and whether other nutrients found in whole foods rich in protein allow us to reap the protective effects of protein safely.

Plants have much higher toxin levels than animal foods, and are more difficult to digest.

The endotoxemia (bacterial toxins in the bloodstream) that follows a meal of animal products and results in inflammation and stiffened arteries may come from the food itself, rather than from one's own gut bacteria.

Remember that biomagnification (accumulation of heavy metals and other toxins in animal foods) is more of a problem than consuming the smaller amounts we get from grains ourselves.