oxygenbabe
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John that meal sounds delicious. Has being say 50% raw helped you with your lyme? Do you also take abx?
Anyway, once a bean like a chickpea sprouts--is it edible and digestible? You're eating part bean and part sprout? I can't quite visualize it.
I subscribed to a sprouting group on yahoo and started reading messages. One person sprouted lentils in a collander. It sounded pretty simple.
Once I get used to something, I just want to do simple stuff.
I'd like sunflower sprouts but they may be easier grown in peat or something and that sounds complicated for me.
I love sunflower sprouts tho. I crave them so I must need something in them.
Anyway the dehydrator sounds like a very easy way to make crunchy delicious food. I don't understand tho--is it a form of very very slow cooking? You can digest dehydrated potatoes? If you are preserving enzymes, how exactly are you able to digest it -- is it still raw? I'm a bit confused.
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was back in the kitchen and i just thought of how my llmd strongly suggests taking concentrated fruit and veg enzymes... and if you notice derek's protocol, he uses daily fresh veg juices in it (sorry derek, not trying to rope you into this thread).
so the concept of increasing your enzyme intake via raw veggies and fruits, to aid in healing, is even suggested by a well respected lyme doc.
this summer, when my garden was rocking, i was drinking daily swiss chard and lettuce (sometimes cuke and others) juices and at the time i thought i was progressing very quickly.
now that it's cold, you still can eat raw root veggies, as o2 wrote about above in the preparation methods. but you can also grate them. for example, grate raw beets (unless you are totally avoiding all sugars), and marinate it in some brown rice vinegar or citrus juice for a bit, maybe add some chopped walnuts or hot chilies...
you really can take it where you want to with food. the key is to finding what works best for you.
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clairenotes
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Whenever I meet someone who is older but looks much younger, I always want to know what they are doing... and there is a well known herbalist living in or near the area in which I live who also is very much into raw foods and has written a book as well. She is now in her sixties and looks all of about 40, with such healthy skin color/tone... and no wrinkles!
But there is one situation where most raw foods might not be helpful (unless one is very skillful). If you have a severely compromised GI tract you will be able to eat very few, if any raw vegetables and fruit, and will know this very soon after eating them. A lot of chronically ill people and the elderly have this weakness.
Juicing may work, or perhaps some of the pureed raw veggie dishes... and/or avocados could be the exceptions. Nuts and seeds are difficult to breakdown... sprouting might help in this situation, but even then, maybe only small amounts could be tolerated.
Once the GI tract has healed, then it would seem that a raw foods diet should only help to keep the area strong.
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clairenotes
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Just remembered something else... in both chinese and ayurvedic medicine there are concepts of foods having certain qualities. The ones I am thinking of that may impact this situation are the foods with cold/warm qualities.
Some people, whether due to their body types or due to their relative health or lack thereof, need foods with warming qualities, others with cooling. For the longest time, when I was quite ill, I craved warming foods/spices.
Also... seasons/climates can affect our needs as well.
Claire
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