[quote]anonym wrote:
The phytanic acid in various fatty foods is enough to cause neurological damage, peripheral neuropathy, and cardiac arrhythmias. It’s just that most people have the ability to process it fast enough to prevent it doing damage. Some people don’t and without abstaining from various meat and dairy products could die from it.
The phenylalanine we get from our high protein diets is enough to cause mental retardation, microcephaly, and seizures. It’s just that most people have the ability to process it fast enough to prevent it doing damage. Some people don’t and without abstaining from foods containing phenylalanine would suffer permanent mental retardation and spend their days posting nonsense on bodybuilding supplement forums.
The tyrosine we get from our bodybuilding diets is enough to cause rickets, liver failure and death. It’s just that most people have the ability to process it fast enough to prevent it doing damage. Some people don’t and without adopting a low protein diet could die from it.
Heck, protein in general is nasty, nasty stuff. The ammonia generated from its metabolism is enough to cause respiratory distress, delirium, comas, stroke, and death. It’s just that most people have the ability to process it fast enough to prevent it doing damage. Some people don’t and without monitoring their intake could die from it.
The protein in a single peanut is enough to kill you. It’s just that most people are able to process it without eliciting an anaphylactic reaction. Some people can’t and without external medication could die from it.[/quote]
There is big difference in the fact that carbs also can cause a loss of ability to tolerate them. And we regularly eat enough of them to loose that tolerance. With a modern diet carbs can become deadly to pretty much any human being. Something like 30+ million Americans all ready cannot process carbs properly. Around 10%. And something like an additional 20% are well on their way to losing their tolerance.
Peanuts are Highly toxic for some people. I don’t think you’d argue that they aren’t. But they are only toxic for those specific people, not people in general. You cannot really claim they are highly toxic for humans in general except on very technical terms. Likewise, while certain proteins and fat maybe be toxic, it is virtually impossible for the vast majority of humans to ever loose their immunity except in very rare conditions.
Sugar is something very different. It is far more that just technically toxic. It kills or at least contributes to the death of hundreds of thousands of people in the US alone each year. If you really get into things like amputations and had a true number on it’s contribution to deaths by heart disease, the numbers are freaking stagering. This is not a .001% of the population are born without this enzyme and so they have a reaction to this chemical. This is is a substance that regularly kills and damages large portions of the population of people that have no real underlying genetic or physiological defect.
So yes, I stand by my claim that sugar is highly toxic (not just on technical terms) and is basically the only thing people regularly eat in quantities large enough to kill them.
