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17 years ago
Gramlin
I wonder if it would make good compost on the compost heap?
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 17 years ago
Gramlin
I've just been away camping, and I took some culture in a plastic pot and cut a piece of each time I got an insect bite – really reduces the itchiness. Somehow it also seemed to work for red ant bites, which is odd, because I thought ants were acid (baking soda works to neutralise them as well).
You can use it this way on spots and ulcers too. If you know anyone with leg-ulcers then bandage
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 17 years ago
Gramlin
Try boiling up ginger (dried and powdered is fine) in a pan then putting a flannel in the mixture and applying it as a compress, hot as you can stand it. Keep doing that.
Are you getting enough Manganese? What about omegas, and any other anti-inflamatory nutrients?
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 17 years ago
Gramlin
I lean that way myself. A healthy diet is supposed to have between 10-20% fat, but definitely not more. My source is Patrick Holford, leading nutritionist here in the UK, head of the optimum nutrition centre and the brain-bio centre. An active research charity.
I looked at Doctor Graham's site. He doesn't exactly back it up with evidence, does he?
That's why I wanted to know exactly how
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 17 years ago
Gramlin
Well, at fifteen days I've decided to try drinking some. All the info on the net and in books says this is the optimum time. Tastes ok, pretty tart. Not as nice as the eight-day batches I was brewing.
It is still leaving a little stickiness, but not much. I guess it's a trade-off. Hopefully the good done by glucuronic acid outweighs the bad done by glucose.
I haven't really concluded anyt
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 17 years ago
Gramlin
14 Days, still leaving a sticky coating in the saucer, like fruit juice does. Not tried the taste today.
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 17 years ago
Gramlin
It's just possible you have a wheat or dairy intollerance. I get incredibly tired and moody from these
There's a difference between cooked food and junk food.
Don't be hard on yourself, that's really good advice. Do what makes you feel good, and stay away from the extremes.
Best
~G
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 17 years ago
Gramlin
Shoot 'em full of spears!
Still doesn't explain why humans suddenly went woosh! while other primates who eat meat (chimpanzees for instance) remained perfectly sutied for the life they lead without having to evolve.
Sound like that anthropolgy lecture was "old news."
The brain is mostly fat, omega fat. There's no correlation between a high protein diet and a high IQ.
Low
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 17 years ago
Gramlin
How long do you suggest doing this for? A diet devoid of fats is pretty dangerous. Every nerve-cell and organ requires omega fats to function, and even cholestrol is important for nerves, not to mention all the steroidal hormones and the prostaglandins essential to a healthy endocrine system.
You said this way was fast – fast enough to avoid the harm that completely cutting out fats would c
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 17 years ago
Gramlin
12 days... much less sticky, much more vinigar... getting there but not free of sugar yet. Still tasted drinkable...
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 17 years ago
Gramlin
I think that's good news. For me, the best advice I've found is in Patrick Holford's Optimum Nutrition Bible. He recommends giving up fruit for one month only, just to totally starve candida, and after that you can bring it back.
The only point of contention is with bananas, which are fast-burning carbs and turn to sugar rather quickly. Grapes are supposed to contain high amounts of glucose t
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 17 years ago
Gramlin
True, I bet the culture prefers organic. And the ancient kombucha masters would not have had white sugar. But then, maybe we can grow super-kombucha these days. Nah, just joking. I heard brown's ok but has "less consistant results" – whatever that means.
Gram
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 17 years ago
Gramlin
That's really intersting. I've read that olive oil has anti-fungal properties and that omega oils are vital for healing the gut damage that candida has done. Are you talking just saturated fat here, or is this really all fat, including that in nuts and seeds?
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 17 years ago
Gramlin
Still using plain old granulated white sugar, that's what they say worked best in the lab. Sugar's sugar, at the end of the day, too much of any kind will still turn to glucose in the body pretty quick.
But I hear some sugars are too rich for Kombucha. Honey eventually kills it. I think that might also be true of brown sugar. And I read that fructose doesn't make such a healthy drink either,
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 17 years ago
Gramlin
Right, I've read all the usual stuff. I've been brewing for about eight days myself, and it's gorgeous, but the other day I spilt some in the kitchen and after it had dried the surface was incredibly sticky, just as it would be with sugar-water. So I summised there was still considerable sugar in the solution. I'm going to try the test again after two weeks, and so on, until I know there is no su
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 17 years ago
Gramlin
It was just caffeine and sugar I was worried about. Everything I've read about Kombucha is very positive. I can't imagine buying it from a shop though, that would seem unstrustworthy. Why? Because they probably worry more about the taste than anything else.
I, on the other hand, am prepared to drink month-brewed Kombucha regardless of the taste, if it will mean no sugar. Fingers crossed there
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 17 years ago
Gramlin
As I understand it, most primates occasionally eat meat, but it is high-cost, high-return food and our bowels still aren't developed in the way that cats or dogs or other predators have them (smooth inards for them, noduled for us). Most likely it would have been insects, sea-food, carrion, baby birds, that kind of thing.
Some people still contend that fish and chicken are healthier than red
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 17 years ago
Gramlin
Ok, I've only just started looking into this, and my diet is only 50% raw at present, and I don't mind taking supplements but...
I've heard avoid all fruit for the first month. Then only introduce fruit that has a low gylcemic index, such as lemons, grapefruit, limes, some berries. I don't know about strawberries – do they tend to have a lot of mould on or not? Possibly apples that aren't to
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 17 years ago
Gramlin
And as a "seed vegetable" brocoli gives you magnesium too!
My absolute favorite vegetable.
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 17 years ago
Gramlin
Hi,
To quote Patrick Holford:
" works well in ratios of 3:2 calcium/magnesium and 2:1 calcium/phosphorus."
For phosphorus he states: "Dietry deficiencies are unlikely since it is present in almost all foods."
He also says "Magnesium helps to hold potassium in cells."
Basically, both calcium and magnesium are required for muscles to work, calcium contr
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 17 years ago
Gramlin
Shouldn't that be Calcium/Magnesium?
Phosphorus is important for balance, but present in nearly everything to a high degree – a raw diet should never be short of phosphorus.
Magnesium, on the other hand, is essential for calcium utilisation, if you don't want excess calcium lying around and building up in joints. That's why nuts and seeds are so much better than milk for calcium – you
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 17 years ago
Gramlin
Thank you very much indeed, Rooibos has some interesting health benefits of its own...
Gram
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 17 years ago
Gramlin
Hi all,
As I understand it, vinigar is brewed using yeast and still contains yeast promoting substances once fermented.
So anyone with a potential yeast problem should avoid vinigar.
Does anyone know if this is true of cidar vinigar too? I imagine so.
Perhaps a problem with vinigar is actually a problem with yeast?
I keep coming across confilcting advice about Kombucha and yeas
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan)
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