Heather Franklin

“there may be few benefits of a high fruit and vegetable intake in terms of protecting our cells. What you gain is culinary pleasure.”
― Sally K. Norton, Toxic Superfoods: How Oxalate Overload Is Making You Sick— And How to Get Better

“The oxalate in today’s baby foods featuring high-oxalate grains and pureed vegetables, including sweet potatoes, carrots, and beets, should concern us.”
― Sally K. Norton, Toxic Superfoods: How Oxalate Overload Is Making You Sick— And How to Get Better

“My own efforts to avoid increasingly numerous food allergies motivated my heavy reliance on sweet potatoes for over 10 years. Sweet potatoes made it easy for me to avoid wheat, soy, and other legumes that I thought were fueling my extreme fatigue and hormonal issues. It didn’t work. Despite careful avoidance of allergens, I went on to need a total hysterectomy, and my fatigue progressed to a devastating collapse that ended my working life and my ability to exercise.”
― Sally K. Norton, Toxic Superfoods: How Oxalate Overload Is Making You Sick— And How to Get Better

“Antioxidant chemicals in foods are mostly powerless over oxalates’ toxic and malnourishing effects.”
― Sally K. Norton, Toxic Superfoods: How Oxalate Overload Is Making You Sick— And How to Get Better