Toxic Superfoods: The Hidden Toxin in 'Superfoods' That's Making You Sick--and How to Feel Better

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An eye-opening guide that exposes the toxins lurking within commonly touted "superfoods" like spinach, almonds, and sweet potatoes, and offers ways to reshape your diet to begin healing. Your spinach smoothie might be making you sick. But there's good news- You can safely reverse your load of oxalates-the chemical toxins produced by many plants-and discover vibrant health. Oxalates most famously cause kidney stones, but they also promote gut problems, chronic pain, joint pain, inflammation, autoimmune conditions, mineral deficiency, sleep disorders, osteoporosis, fatigue, and brain fog. Modern diets, especially ones that are gluten-free, keto, or plant-heavy, tend to be overloaded with oxalates; in fact, health favourites like certain leafy greens, sweet potatoes, turmeric, chia seeds, raspberries, and almonds are especially high in oxalates. After suffering for decades from chronic joint inflammation, back pain, and other problems, health and nutrition educator, Sally Norton, MPH, discovered that the culprits were the oxalates hiding within her healthy, organic vegetarian diet. Now working with clients to safely reverse their oxalate load, she believes that most of us would enjoy better lifelong health with fewer oxalates in our food. Shining light on what might be nothing short of a hidden epidemic, Toxic Superfoods offers solutions where none have existed before, showing how to identify whether you have a problem and offering a timely research-backed plan with recipes and handy food charts, plus a guide to key supplementation for safely reversing your oxalate load. In this ground-breaking guide, Norton reveals that the popular dictum to "eat more plants" can be misleading. Toxic Superfoods gives health-seekers a chance for improved energy, optimum brain performance, graceful aging, and true relief from chronic pain.

Sally Norton, MPH, received her bachelor's degree in nutritional science from Cornell University and her master's degree in public health from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

"Who knew that some so-called superfoods could be the opposite of healthy? The conventional advice to eat 'mostly plants' is seriously challenged by the reality that plants contain known toxins. Norton makes a compelling case that oxalates are the x-factor contributing to many mysterious health conditions."-Nina Teicholz, author of The Big Fat Surprise "What if your favorite superfood was actually a supervillain? Sally Norton masterfully pinpoints the changes in our food system and eating style that have turned a common natural occurring toxin into a potential public health crisis for people who are trying their best to eat well. Her simple and effective recommendations are grounded both in modern science and the principles of ancestral health."-Aaron Blaisdell, PhD, UCLA Professor of Behavioral Neuroscience "As a medical profession, we have only recently begun to realize how commonly we are seeing oxalate issues be a part of the presentation of a wide variety of chronic illnesses. I highly recommend this book to anyone who has been wrestling with poor health and not gotten the answers they need."-Neil Nathan, MD, author of Toxic "One conversation with Sally Norton transformed my health. Thankfully, she has shared her life's work about the dangers of oxalates in this book. Everyone needs to hear her message."-Dr. Bill Schindler, author of Eat Like a Human "Sally Norton does a super job of revealing the many ways oxalates can promote the health of plants and undermine the health of people. This book is a must-read for people who eat plant-based superfoods."-Fred Provenza, PhD, author of Nourishment "An invaluable book that tells the story of the deleterious health effects of oxalate in our food."-Miki Ben-Dor, PhD "This book has the power to change the course of your health, happiness, and longevity for the better."-James L. Oschman, PhD, author of Energy Medicine "Juicing, raw food, and vegan trends have come and gone over my 30 years in the integrative oncology world and is currently all the rage again. This trend has created an illusion of health, and yet, clinically, I have seen the opposite. Sally has done an excellent job confirming what I have been seeing clinically."-Dr. Nasha Winters, ND, FABNO "A revealing and riveting must-read."-Kaayla T. Daniel, PhD, author of The Whole Soy Story and coauthor of Nourishing Broth "[I]nformative. . . . The extensive charts showing the oxalate content of various foods make it easy to follow a low-oxalate diet. . . . [A] straightforward resource for potentially curbing a host of symptoms."-Publishers Weekly