Re: WAP/Francesca/Probiotics, was: Mortality Associated with -Wine

[Guest guest]

Francesca,

I agree that the WAP people are nutjobs. For example, they promote

absurd products to remove chlorine from tap water. (One design

appears to swirl the water before dumping it into a glass.) However,

I suspect they are onto something with fermentation. I have had good

subjective results from using a probiotic called Culturelle. It

might be cheaper to eat food that was rotting with the proper flora.

I once tried adding the powder from a Culturelle capsule to a gallon

of milk. I kept it in the refrigrator as I drank the contents.

Later I left the last 1/4 inch of milk unrefrigerated for a few

weeks. A white coating developed on the bottom and the bottle

smelled cheese-like. I did not drink it.

>

> > It bothers me, when they say 3 to 5 glasses of wine. I like to

measure

> > portions on my kitchen scale, and I'm wondering how large a glass

of wine

> > should be. ?

> >

> > The suggestion, that fermentation products are important, has

cropped up in

> > my other reading. The Weston A. Price (WAP) people do a lot of

fermenting,

> > and even the Inuits ate fermented seal flipper. Before

refrigeration, the

> > eating of spoiled foods may have been common. It would not be

shocking to

> > find a nutritional requirement in the products of fermentation.

I have been

> > afraid to try at-home fermentation. I feel sure I would grow

something

> > deadly....

> >

> > Dave

> >