Re: Alive food

From: TC (tunderbar_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 02/15/05


Date: 15 Feb 2005 06:53:28 -0800


John Sankey wrote:
> 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 think that you may be in the right group.

Freshness of food is key in good nutrition. Although I would not go so
far as to say that we need to eat everything in its raw state,
freshness ensures maximum nutrition to a large extent.

The converse is food that has been manufacturd and refined to death.
Grains and grain starches, sugars, manufactured fats like margarine and
shortening are all dead foods. Unfotunately even todays milk has been
processed pretty much to its death.

Soups made from chemical powders in plastic cups where you just add hot
water is not live food, it isn't even a food, it's a chemical
concoction. Conversely, soup made from the meat and bones of healthy
freshly dispatched well-fed chickens is real healthy live food.

TC



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