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11 years ago
Living Food
No. Long term it will lead to severe nutritional deficiencies and other health problems too.
More on this later.
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 11 years ago
Living Food
212. Re: Composting
Making good compost:
Forum: Sprouting and Organic Gardening 11 years ago
Living Food
213. Re: Composting
Mindy,
Using only organic substances is ideal, but far from necessary. Composting is one of the best ways known to man to detoxify harmful substances and bind heavy metals - even sewage sludge can be safely composted if done properly, although I don't recommend it.
Just avoid using sawdust and other products from treated wood, and other substances that may have been treated with toxic chemi
Forum: Sprouting and Organic Gardening 11 years ago
Living Food
An educational paper on vermicomposting:
Earthworms are the most important creature on Earth for building and maintaining soil fertility. It's a shame that the worms you use for vermicomposting aren't really suitable for living in normal garden soil (and vice versa). Hence one should also strive to attract earthworms to your soil as well as produce worm castings via vermicomposting, because h
Forum: Sprouting and Organic Gardening 11 years ago
Living Food
QuoteAm I alone at this quest, to have a harem of fruit always waiting to please, while everyone else has them tamed and mastered?
The trick is to choose a few pieces to make an example of, and beat them into submission. The rest will quickly do whatever you say.
Works on children too
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 11 years ago
Living Food
Quoteits probably a really understood underresearched area
Of course it is. You think Big Pharma's going to fund that kind of research? It's the same problem as with many other natural remedies.
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 11 years ago
Living Food
QuoteI prefer not to wear sunscreen, but definitely do not want my face to look old
Again, for those who are very healthy this is not an issue at all. The sun is GOOD for you. The wrinkling that people experience is because the sunlight is drawing toxins out of your body. Those who aren't suffering from toxic overload, won't experience it.
Here's a post I made on another forum about sunlight
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 11 years ago
Living Food
Quotei have never to this day been able to find any medical study to back this up in any way or any theory so i have no idea where he got his info from
Unfortunately neither have I. There is abundant evidence that getting sunlight through the eyes has a wide variety of health benefits, but I have yet to find any study "proving" that you can synthesis vitamin d through the eyes. Which
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 11 years ago
Living Food
Salt isn't necessary. I too have heard that soaking nuts in salt water is better, but so far I have been completely unable to find any evidence to back this claim up (the closest I've come is that soaking clover leaves in salt water makes them more digestible, so there seems to be some merit to it). I do know that soaking them in warm water is superior to cool or cold water
Peanuts aren't the
Forum: Recipes and Food Preparation 11 years ago
Living Food
Sprout raw grains (wheat, rye, whatever), then dehydrate into raw essene bread or "cook" it in the sun.
Forum: Recipes and Food Preparation 11 years ago
Living Food
QuoteFor one thing, he said that cooking "predigests" our food (eeuuuu) so our bodies don't have to work so hard to digest it.
Yes and no. Eating many raw veggies can be very tough on the digestive system for example, a problem that is solved when they are cooked. However, the cooking process makes them useless because it destroys the enzymes, many of the vitamins, the hormones and th
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 11 years ago
Living Food
Keep in mind that the RDA for vitamin D is WAY too low, so even if a test says you're fine you could still be deficient.
QuoteVitamin D can also come from animal products. Were these missing Ohio girls vegan?
It can come from some plant foods too, but very few foods, vegan or otherwise, have it in any significant amount. It's not really feasible to get from your diet unless you're consuming
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 11 years ago
Living Food
QuoteFrom what I have read most of the protobiotic supplements are destroyed in the stomach acid. Enteric coated ones are supposed to be able to survive the acid to make it further through the digestive system.
Myth. The reason some people need probiotic supplements is because they've destroyed the good bacteria in their digestive tract because of tap water, horrible diets, antibiotics, many n
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 11 years ago
Living Food
QuoteAnd.. I actually never did hi fat, I just did alot of protein. Still not a good thing though
That's a lot worse then a high fat diet, actually.
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 11 years ago
Living Food
QuoteSince we can't afford that, we are going to start saving up for an Omega VRT350HD. It's $379.
Sproutpeople.org sells a greenstar for barely more then that. $395.
Most of their prices are absurd (do NOT waste your money buying sprouts from them, the sprouts are good quality but the prices are many times what they should be. Buying in bulk, you can get some organic seeds for 1/10th of wh
Forum: Raw Diary - Your Personal Experience 11 years ago
Living Food
QuoteSoak them overnight in coconut water or put them in your smoothies
Not good enough. Sure, soaking does help eliminate the enzyme inhibitors, but only a small fraction of the antinutrients and only results in a slight increase in nutritional value. Even worse, oats are extremely low in the enzyme "phytase" so soaking removes almost none of the phytic acid - an antinutrient that pr
Forum: Meeting Place 11 years ago
Living Food
I don't know exactly why chia green juice makes you immune to the cold. I suspect it may have something to do with the very high bioavailability of the omega-3 fatty acids, because omega-3s speed up the metabolism by making cell walls more permeable. But I also think it has to do with more then just that, maybe the extraordinary nutritional profile or more likely there is some hidden compound (or
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 11 years ago
Living Food
One doctor estimated that around 40% of the population in industrialized worlds had some degree of undetected hypothyroidism. This was in the 1900s, so it's undoubtedly worse now. Frankly, people who haved lived most of their lives in industrialized countries, and eating the standard fare of nutritionally empty toxic junk, have problems with ALL their organs and body parts. We've done too much da
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 11 years ago
Living Food
QuoteIt's an issue of we don't feel well eating 100% raw when it is 15-20 deg. below 0 C. outside for 4 months and we have to be outdoors a fair amount and then come into an underheated house. There is nothing like a pot of hot vegetable soup, porridge, etc. to ease us through this. It's a necessity. Raw food alone won't give us that internal heat. Then when the warm weather comes, it's back to r
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 11 years ago
Living Food
Buckwheat, quinoa, kaniwa, amaranth. Millet and oats are OK grains.
I personally don't like the idea of eating raw quinoa even sprouted + fermented, I'm not sure if some saponins remain so I avoid it. I'd love to try kaniwa if I could find a source to get it in bulk.
Also others like sorghum and teff, but I've been completely unable to find a good source for them so far.
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 11 years ago
Living Food
All about vermicomposting:
^ The entire site is a great resource on all things organic + sustainable. I'm especially fond of the "Small Farms Library":
Forum: Sprouting and Organic Gardening 11 years ago
Living Food
QuoteThose of us in northern climes who cannot manage all raw in the winter
It's easy to be raw in winter...there's this amazing thing called "sprouting".
And it's cheaper then just about any other diet too. How else can you get a pound of the freshest organic greens for mere cents? All throughout winter and in massive quantities with very little work?
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 11 years ago
Living Food
233. Re: swimming pool
Chlorinated pools are extremely toxic; as much as I love swimming, I'd never swim in chlorinated water no matter what. Chlorine causes everything from a weakened immune system to cancer (via the trihalomethanes produced when it reacts with organic matter) and heart disease (by scarring the arteries).
Swimming in chlorinated pools has been linked to a greatly increased risk of asthma and allerg
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 11 years ago
Living Food
I bet you'd like sesame and sunflower sprouts (only sprout for 1-2 days). They have a pleasant nutty flavor.
Also, do you like sour foods? If so, fermented sprout milk might appeal to you. It works best with pseudograin or grain sprouts (best to avoid grains though). I mostly use buckwheat, although millet and oats would work too. You take the sprouts and blend them with water or rejuvelac (mo
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 11 years ago
Living Food
QuoteWould adding legumes that are soaked and then cooked help??
Lots of sprouted legumes, seeds and pseudograins. You can easily get tons of calories and protein by making smoothies with the above, and then fill the rest of the blender with green sprouts (which actually have tons of protein - 3 tbsp alfalfa before sprouting turns into over 12 grams of protein when sprouted, + the sprouting pr
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 11 years ago
Living Food
QuoteWow, LF. Your babies are gorgeous!
Sorry, that was misleading of me. That isn't actually a picture of my sunflower greens, just a picture of sunflower greens (I don't have a camera so none of the pictures I post are actually mine). But mine are very similar looking. But just because you said that...
THE LIVING FOOD SUNFLOWER GREEN CHALLENGE
I challenge you and everyone else readi
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 11 years ago
Living Food
I love broccoli sprouts. They're one of the most powerful, if not THE most powerful, anti-cancer food ever discovered! So powerful that they were actually patented for a while!
The "spiciness" comes from the sulfur content, which is actually a good thing because it makes broccoli sprouts powerful detoxifiers. Most people are deficient in sulfur, which is vital for the production of v
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 11 years ago
Living Food
Yes, microgreens and green sprouts are different, and the microgreens tend to be considerably more nutritious. The cereal grasses (wheat, rye, barley, oats, etc) are the king of the microgreens and the most powerful land food there is.
QuoteI wonder if it's possible to buy them ready-made - I'm lazy. I don't even make my own sprouts.
It might be, depending on where you are, but keep in mind
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 11 years ago
Living Food
QuoteThe only caution is that I've read not to eat too many of the sunflower greens
There's no problem with sunflower greens, I'm sure your source meant buckwheat greens, which contain small amounts of the toxin 'fagopyrin'. Buckwheat greens are still perfectly safe in moderation and a wonderful liver cleanser, but if you juice excessive mounts everyday for a period of weeks they can turn your
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 11 years ago
Living Food
Technically they're scientific papers, not studies, but the point is they summarize many of the benefits shown by dozens of different studies (there are many more benefits too though).
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