11/07/2022
At the house of Fruits we moved to a wholefood plant-based lifestyle in 2019. After 3 years, the only regret we have is to not have started earlier !
Dioxins are highly toxic pollutants that accumulate in tissue fat. Nearly all dioxins found in people who don’t work in hazardous conditions, such as toxic waste dumps, are thought to come from food, especially meat, including fish, and milk. Indeed, what we eat accounts for about 95 percent of human exposure.
The Institute of Medicine suggests various strategies to reduce exposure to dioxins, such as trimming the fat from meat, including poultry and fish, and avoiding the recycling of animal fat into gravy. If nearly all dioxin intake comes from animal fat, then eating a more plant-based diet could wipe out about 98 percent of our exposure to the toxic pollutant.
Eating a plant-based diet is eating as low on the food chain as possible, and it is the best way to minimize exposure to industrial toxins. Additionally, phytonutrients in fruits, vegetables, teas, and beans may block the toxic effects of pollutants, like dioxins, through the Ah receptor system. The half-life of these phytonutrients in the body is only about 25 hours, so we have to keep eating healthfully day after day.
Learn more about dietary dioxins on http://NutritionFacts.org:
"Dioxins in U.S. Farm-Raised Catfish" at https://bit.ly/3ezAZsa
"Counteracting the Effects of Dioxins Through Diet" at https://bit.ly/3AiXUkQ.
