Vegetables and whole grains have long been seen as the key to good health. But could some of these actually be doing us harm?
That’s the claim made by U.S. heart surgeon, Dr Steven Gundry, in his book, The Plant Paradox. He says some plants not only use thorns to deter predators, they have other defences too: large, sticky proteins called lectins.
‘Because plants’ first predators were insects, some developed lectins that would paralyse any bug that tried to dine on them,’ says Dr Gundry. He claims that as humans have more cells than insects it is only after years of consuming lectins that the damaging effects to health become apparent — causing, he suggests, problems such as allergies, brain fog, fatigue, irritable bowel syndrome, and even autoimmune diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis.
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