Yams detox heavy metals ?

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YAMS - Used For Heavy Metal, Toxic Chemical, And Smog

Effects Detoxification Of Body Tissues:

" Yams remove heavy metals from the body... Yams and sweet

potatoes contain simple peptide substances called

phytochelatins, that can bind heavy metals like cadmium,

copper, mercury, and lead, and thus participate in metal

detoxification of body tissue. These metal-chelating

compounds interact with the mineral sulphur to achieve this.

In light of this it's interesting to note that doctors in the

Soviet Union include potatoes, yams, and cabbage (all sulphur

rich vegetables) in a special prophylactic diet for factory

workers constantly exposed to toxic chemical occupational

environments. When one considers that most of our big cities

have a terrible smog problem, it only seems prudent for us to

eat more of these three vegetables ourselves so that we don't

accumulate and become ill from the heavy metals in the air we

breathe each day. " (Heinerman, page 282)

from:

http://www.hopebeyond.com/groceries8_FROM_YAMS_TO_ZINC_VOL_6.htm

31 May 2000

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Groceries Book: affecting health and wellbeing

http://www.hopebeyond.com/GROCERIES_FROM_APPLES_TO_BUTTER_VOL_1.htm

http://www.hopebeyond.com/groceries_FROM_CABBAGE_TO_EYES_VOL_2.htm

http://www.hopebeyond.com/groceries_FROM_FACE_TO_KIWI_VOL_3.htm

http://www.hopebeyond.com/groceries4_FROM_LABELREADING_TO_RICEI_VOL_4.htm

http://www.hopebeyond.com/groceries5_FROM_SALADE_TO_WRINKLES_VOL_5.htm

http://www.hopebeyond.com/groceries8_FROM_YAMS_TO_ZINC_VOL_6.htm

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