Re: Alive food

From: Rene (nospam_at_nospam.com)
Date: 02/14/05


Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 13:55:56 -0800


"John Sankey" <bf250@FreeNet.Carleton.CA> wrote in message
news:cuqcq7$iob$1@theodyn.ncf.ca...
>
> I'm not sure if this is the right group to raise this, because I've
> no proof that it affects our nutrition, but it might.
>
> When I was growing up, our food was alive. If we wanted sprouts for
> our salad, we put grocery-bought pot barley into a bowl with a bit of
> water, and grew them. Same thing with beans, and many seeds (I
> remember sesame in particular). Today, the only grains I can find
> that are still alive are wheat. Even health food stores here say they
> can't get live barley or rice any more.
>
> If you bought fruit when I was young, and planted the seeds, they
> grew - we had a small indoor forest of citrus fruit, date and fig
> trees. Today, I have a selection of over a dozen pots with various
> fruit seeds in them - zero response.
>
> For years, I made banana bread for Christmas. (I don't mean banana
> pound cake, but real yeast bread.) Since Christmas 2003, my bread
> stays as doorstops - the yeast is killed. (Of course I checked yeast,
> all other ingredients, and tried every brand of bananas I could find
> from different retail stores.)
>
> Does anyone else care about this? Is there a better group to discuss
> it?

I have a great email group you can join and discuss this:

http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/beyondprice/

This list is small, but when new members join and have questions, it can
really get going. Some members are extremely knowledgeable.

René



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