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where fermented soy is common, people actually don't eat much of it. A 1998 study found that Japanese men eat only about eight grams of soy per day (a teaspoon or two). The average misguided American consumes far more than this when he drinks a glass of soy milk or eats a soy burger (and these soy products aren't even fermented).
    Peanuts
    Peanuts are infamous for mold contamination, and that's why we avoid them. This contamination carries over into peanut butter and all other peanut products. Mycotoxins are probably why peanuts top the list of allergens in the United States. People have such violent reactions to peanuts that peanuts have been banned in many school lunchrooms. Given the peanut's susceptibility to mold, we're not surprised that traditional Chinese medicine includes peanuts in the fa wu , or toxic food, category. Peanuts are also high in omega-6 and won't help you lower your omega-6 to omega-3 ratio. Almond products are a great substitute for peanut products because they're delicious, they contain lower levels of omega-6, and they aren't as susceptible to molds.
    Yeast
    Saccharomyces cerevisiae —both baker's yeast and brewer's yeast—prevents the liver from detoxing your body as well as it can. It also helps harmful Candida yeasts grow, and it's atherogenic, which means it promotes the buildup of unhealthy cholesterol in the wrong places. Some misinformed people purposefully supplement with S. cerevisiae . Just because you see something at a health-food store doesn't mean it's healthy!
    Mushrooms
    Mushrooms are more mysterious and less well understood than many other organisms found in nature. We avoided mushrooms during pregnancy because people really don't know much about what they do inside the body. Different mushrooms produce such drastically different effects; some, considered “medicinal” mushrooms, do an excellent job of boosting the immune system and show great health benefits. Medicinal mushrooms usually grow on trees and include maitake, reishi, and shiitake.
    Other mushrooms, like portobello mushrooms, taste good and appear to be harmless. Still others are hallucinogens, and some are deadly poisonous. We think it's okay to use medicinal mushrooms to build up immune support before pregnancy. However, we avoided all mushrooms during pregnancy because there are so many unknowns.
    Pasteurized, Homogenized, or Conventional Dairy (Except Butter)
    When we say dairy , we mean anything made from milk from cows, goats, and sheep, except butter. This includes milk, cheese (including cottage cheese and cream cheese), yogurt, sour cream, half and half, light cream, heavy cream, buttermilk, and ice cream. “Conventional” dairy is any dairy product that has not come from grass-fed, organically raised animals.
    Pasteurization
    The sale of raw dairy products is illegal in all states except California and Washington at the time of this writing because raw milk is, on rare occasions, contaminated with harmful pathogens that can compromise health. As a result, all dairy you'll find in any grocery store in the United States (except California and Washington) is pasteurized, or “cooked,” dairy, including organic products from grass-fed cows.
    Pasteurization, in which milk is heated to 150 degrees Fahrenheit for about thirty minutes and immediately stored at temperatures lower than 55 degrees Fahrenheit, is intended to reduce the risk of milk contamination substantially. But it also destroys most of the nutritional value of the milk, killing beneficial probiotics, denaturing (deforming) milk proteins, and transforming milk into an unhealthy substance that behaves like a clogging, irritating glue inside the body. The result is that what most Americans call “milk,” and mistake for a healthy source of calcium and vitamin D, is actually linked to a host of health risks.
    Pasteurization Destroys the Nutrients in Milk
    Research has found that pasteurization reduces the vitamin content in milk, including vitamins