Kale is making a lot of people very sick

This newly discovered vegetable may be the way to go, especially with recent kale news.

While kale proved that vegetables can be trendy, now it's proving something much less appealing: It's making a ton of people sick.

While the leafy green has a ton of vitamins, it also comes with dangerous levels of heavy metals, making the calcium, magnesium, potassium and Vitamin K not worth it.

Molecular biologist Ernie Hubbard told Craftsmanship Magazine that the heavy metals are being pulled from the soil. "If it's left in the ground, the leafy greens are going to take it up," he said.

Maybe it's time to go for an alternative. I think we'll try the new kale-like vegetable that tastes like bacon.

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