Modern wheat a "perfect, chronic poison," doctor says

[HiPointDem]

154. i specifically said that all plants have defense mechanisms. i also said lectins

are mostly denatured by heat, like most proteins (lectins = glycoprotein)

"Lectins are widely distributed in food items eaten by humans...most lectins are easily destroyed by the traditional methods of household cooking."

http://books.google.com/books?id=Mk-IdNTTJB0C&pg=PA334&dq=lectin+carrot&hl=en&sa=X&ei=J0OwUJrsLeGuiQLopYG4Cg&ved=0CDkQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=lectin%20carrot&f=false

Lectins are found in over 800 plant species, 600 of them in the legume family.

We *do* get sick from them sometimes (especially when we don't cook foods that contain high amounts or specific types thoroughly) but we've also been eating them for 1000s of years.

Carrots and bananas contain lectins. Animals do as well.

People eat lots of poisonous or semi-poisonous things.

Lupin or Lupini Beans are the yellow legume seeds of Lupinus genus plants, most commonly the Lupinus luteus or Yellow Lupin, and were once a common food of the Mediterranean basin and Latin America. Today they are primarily eaten as a pickled snack food....Lupin poisoning affects people that eat incorrectly prepared lupin beans.



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lupin_poisoning