Nora T. Gedgaudas

“And here’s the kicker: food manufacturers are using a gasoline additive known as hexane to process soy products (and some vegetable oils). Soybeans are soaked in large vats of hexane to assist in the extraction of substances such as protein and oils from them. An independent lab has found hexane residue in soy-based foods, but the FDA does not require any testing for hexane, even in baby foods. It is used by the food industry because it is cheap to do so and because the FDA lets them get away with it. The soy industry is incredibly powerful and influential. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency lists hexane, incidentally, as a hazardous chemical.”
― Nora T. Gedgaudas CNS CNT, Primal Body, Primal Mind: Beyond Paleo for Total Health and a Longer Life

“The bottom line is that we had access to most, if not all, of our dietary or physiological requirements long before the agricultural revolution, and those requirements have not changed. Diets”
― Nora T. Gedgaudas, Primal Body, Primal Mind: Beyond Paleo for Total Health and a Longer Life