Correction To: Fermented Foods & Health [Ann Wigmore]

[Guest guest]

The statement about Ann Wigmore, below, it both correct and incorrect. It is

correct, in that Ann taught much about fermentation for many years. It is

incorrect, in that, learning along the way, she really withdrew from the

fermentation practices later on in her teaching career.

 

So when you buy and read her books, many talk of fermentation. But later on,

she learned the truth. She began increasing the fruits in her program,

eliminated the fermentation. She kept the wheat grass, but she was clearly

moving away from some of the sprouting and germinating, particularly of

lentils and such.

 

She moved away from fermented foods because she began to realize that these

were not, in fact, causing health; health was occurring in spite of these

" foods " .

 

After all, knowledge does progress over time.

 

Best,

Elchanan

_____

 

rawfood [rawfood ] On Behalf Of

Erica

Monday, October 29, 2007 2:17 PM

rawfood

[Raw Food] Fermented Foods & Health/Dis-ease Prevention (was: Re:

Kimchi may cure bird flu)

 

 

Dr. Ann Wigmore was very big on eating fermented foods with every

meal. Very few rawfoodists ingest ferments. Where does everybody get

theirs?

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[Guest guest]

Darn, I just recieved my copy of the hippocrates Diet today and Ann is

telling me to eat loads of sprouts, rejuvelac, sauerkraut. Where can I

get the updated info? I guess it was working back then so probably

would now. But I would still like to be privy to the new opinions

about fermented foods. Esp because they are a pain to make.

 

Katya.

 

 

 

Ann taught much about fermentation for many years. It is

> incorrect, in that, learning along the way, she really withdrew from

the

> fermentation practices later on in her teaching career.

[Guest guest]

I have also heard this, that Ann Wigmore's diet got simpler as she progressed

in her

journey. Dr Flora, who knew Ann personally, said that towards the end of her

life, she

wasn't consuming wheat grass any more, that it was just used for sick folk. Ann

was eating

a lot of energy soup though.

 

The Hippocrates is an excellent transitional diet. What makes it transitional is

that you need

to eat some cooked foods to be healthy on their food choices. This is a given,

as Brian

Clements recommends 20% by volume cooked foods and 80% by volume raw foods. But

if

you look at the percentage in terms of calories in a diet like this, it can 20%

volume of

cooked rice can easily be 80% of the calories in your diet, as sprouts and

wheatgrass don't

have that many calories, and sweet fruit it totally not recommended in the

Hippocrates diet.

 

For people who want to include healthy cooked vegans foods in their diet, this

is an

excellent way to go. But for people wanting to eat 100% raw vegan, if one goes

uses the

recommended food choices from Hipprocrates minus the cooked starches and cooked

foods, they will find themselves eating a 60% fat or higher diet.