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Toxic Superfoods: How Oxalate Overload Is Making You Sick--and How to Get Better
| Title | Toxic Superfoods: How Oxalate Overload Is Making You Sick--and How to Get Better |
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| Date | 2025-04-08 08:26:35 |
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Desciption
An acclaimed nutrition educator reveals how the foods you’re eating to get healthy might be making you sick. “Sally Norton’s well-researched book makes a truly important contribution to the literature in revealing just how much oxalates can damage the human body.”—Nina Teicholz, author of The Big Fat Surprise If you’re eating a healthy diet and you’re still dealing with fatigue, inflammation, anxiety, recurrent injuries, or chronic pain, the problem could be your spinach, almonds, sweet potatoes, and other trusted plant foods. And your key to vibrant health may be quitting these so-called superfoods. After suffering for decades from chronic health problems, nutrition educator Sally K. Norton, MPH, discovered that the culprits were the chemical toxins called oxalates lurking within her “healthy,” organic plant-heavy diet. She shines light on how our modern diets are overloaded with oxalates and offers fresh solutions including: • A complete, research-backed program to safely reverse your oxalate load • Comprehensive charts and resources on foods to avoid and better alternatives • Guidance to improve your energy, optimize mood and brain performance, and find true relief from chronic pain In this groundbreaking 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. Read more
Review
I became more aware of the extent of troublesome oxalates in plant foods after reading a short article by Mark Sisson of Marks Daily Apple and then a comment which testified to the difference it made to reduce or nearly eliminate the many sources of Oxalates in (her) diet. I was so stunned by the commenter’s testimony (even though I was aware of oxalates in some plant foods and already avoided them) that I was compelled to follow the link she left to Sally K. Norton’s website. I was happy to learn what Sally offered at her site which included many helpful articles and lists. I was surprised too by how many foods we consume that contain high amounts of oxalates so I began implementing some of the ideas right away to discover for myself what effects oxalates might be having on my own health.This book Toxic Superfoods - “How Oxalate Overload is Making You Sick and How to Get Better” came out about a year after I found Sally and offers a detailed and comprehensive presentation of her decade plus research and personal journey recovering from Oxalate poisoning from her vegetarian diet. The book is well organized and very readable with impressive stories of recovery, useful lists, tables and comparisons of meals that contain low vs high Oxalate foods. It is designed for anyone who wants to understand the problem of Oxalate crystals in (mostly plant) foods to discover if they might be the culprit in their own health issues and how to tackle it to find out if they are. It covers all the relevant science and explains the physiological effects of these plant elements.I think everyone can benefit from reading this book to gain an understanding of how many foods we eat today (and much less so in decades and centuries past) that are having negative effects on our bodies and health but which are rigorously promoted to us as “health foods” or “super foods” all of which is propaganda not fact.In my 60’s I find it prudent to be pro-active in my approach to health such that I can address or prevent problems before they arise. So even though I didn’t personally have any big problems with oxalates, I was having some & knowing how to eliminate these problems by my own actions empowers me and keeps me out of doctors offices or using drugs for pain management which so many people over 65 rely on yet find little relief. Sally has poured her vast experience, knowledge, wisdom, heart, & soul into creating a book immensely usable and one can feel how dedicated she is to helping people feel well again. This is a hallmark book - first and only one I know of covering this topic so beautifully and thoroughly. Read it!
