Here's something that a lot of people don't know about dolphins: they have some remarkable eating habits. In fact, a recent study has revealed that dolphins prepare food much like chefs do. Allow me to explain.

One of the dolphins' favorite foods is the cuttlefish. To secure their meal, dolphins herd the cuttlefish out of the algal weeds and onto an open sandbar. They then pin the cuttlefish down while standing on their heads, and deliver a lightning fast downward thrust that kills it instantly. Next the dolphin lifts up the body and slams it with its nose to drain all the toxic fluids that the cuttlefish use to squirt towards predators.

Pretty smart right? Indeed. So smart, in fact that the dolphin may be one-upping you in the lengths it goes to avoid eating toxic food. We prepare food in ways that expose them to toxins nearly every day, and we don't even know it. So we should take a cue from the dolphins and take the following steps in detoxing our food when we preparing it: