Eating grains (WAS: IBS)

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On Behalf Of Peggy Castillo

Monday, August 14, 2006 8:51 PM

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Re: [Raw Food] Re: IBS

 

Does eating raw allow for grains. I'm considering at this point that I may have

a wheat/gluten

thing going on. Perhaps the raw diet took away these things that could have been

the culprit.

 

Alicia Richards <Alicia716 wrote: Hi, all! Peggy, I've found that when

I eat more raw

foods, I had far less problems with IBS. I have not been successful at being

100% raw for any

length of time, but judging from the results I've seen in my efforts so far, the

raw diet would

cure IBS quite well. My system feels very clean, and...light, maybe might be a

good word when I

eat lots of fruits and veggies. I hope you can find relief from your IBS, I know

what a painful

and inconvenient condition it can be.

 

Alicia

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Hi Alicia,

Great question, and you'll find different opinions on this throughout the RF

world.

 

Some propose that we can eat grains in their germinated (usually called

" sprouted " ) form; you

soak the grains for a period of time, allowing them to sprout, then you grind or

blend them into

a recipe, put them whole on a salad, etc.

 

I take a different approach, I do not eat grains. Of potential interest is this:

roughly 1/2 of

all the sodium bicarbonate sole in America is sold to the cattle industry. Why?

To give to

animals who are suffering severe indigestion from eating grain.

 

There is nothing in our physiology, nor in the physiology of any other primate,

nor in the

physiology of most large mammals of which I am aware, that is even remotely

designed to grind,

moisturize, digest, or eliminate grains. The ruminants (animals with multiple

stomachs, e.g.,

cattle, sheep, goats, etc.) eat grasses, but not grains. The cats all eat small

quantities of

grasses, but not grains. Horses, zebras, and the like eat grasses, but not

grains.

 

The term " grain " is a marketing expression for grass seed. If we call it by this

more generic

name, probably it loses its appeal.

 

So can you eat raw grains? Absolutely. And if you do, are you still (probably)

better off than

you were on your old SAD diet? Probably so. Are grains a food that matches the

design of our

species? No.

 

Best to all,

Elchanan