new again/sprouts/Nourishing Traditions

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Hello fellow CRONers,

I hadn't been too active on the internet/email list front for a while

when I discovered some new lists that got me very excited and I

noticed that I hadn't seen any posts in ages, so I

looked on the home page and discovered that there in fact had been

bucketloads of activity, but, for some reason, the posts weren't

arriving at the email address they used to. I guess I figured the

list had just gone quiet. Well, anyhow, I joined this list about a

year ago and participated a little bit, and now I'm skimming through

the archives to see what I've missed. I'm sending this email because

I wanted to make a few comments on things that caught my eye.

One topic near and dear to me is sprouts, and I saw that there have

been some threads on that. It was interesting to see some

perspectives on equipment and usage that are a little different than

mine, certainly a testament to the robustness of sprouting as a

culinary practice. As far as equipment, I wanted to mention that

I've had great experiences with the www..com site,

particularly in using the Easy Sprout devices they recommend. I

definitely swear by these things, and they're economical and good for

travelling. On the other hand, I also bought some of the hemp bags

recommended and sold by this site, but I haven't found them very

useful. They work and everything, but I just never see any reason to

use them instead of the Easy Sprouts, and I could never figure out a

good arrangement for letting them drain. They're good for micro-

greens, and I did experiment with them, but the whole thing seemed

like too much hassle with not enough benefits, so I just stick to old-

fashioned sprouts in my Easy Sprouts (I always have about 7 or 8 in

action--one per day). Also, I found paper towels worked okay for

micro-greens. I've also had excellent experiences ordering seeds

from that site, although I buy many of my seeds from local Indian

shops at super-cheap prices. Also, the site is packed with info on

sprouting techniques, and almost all my knowledge and experience with

sprouting is based on it. I've also gotten some useful info on

sprouting from www.rawfoods.com (click on " articles " ), but I

certainly don't endorse all the content on that site (sort through it

critically). Broccoli seeds sure are expensive, but I only use a

teaspoon per day. Another thing about sprouts: yes, fenugreek is

king!!!!! The flavor of fenugreek didn't win me over too quickly,

but now I actually crave fenugreek sprouts, fenugreek tea, etc.

Wait, actually, almond is king; okay, I'll call it a tie for first.

The other main remark I want to make is that there are a lot of

people on this list who are probably not aware of

www.westonaprice.org and the book Nourishing Traditions, at least

judging by the large number of posts that reflect mainstream views on

the whole saturated fat/cholesterol scandal. When I accidentally

stumbled across Walford's BT120YD in a bookstore about a year ago I

had just started to think about nutrition at all for the first time

in my life, and it was really inspiring to me. I had already been

unintentionally practicing mild CR for a little while and so I was

ecstatic to learn that I could have a chance of living longer, but

the CR part seems kind of trivial to me, at least as a practical

matter. I read with great interest any info I can find on the

theoretical aspects of CR, but as far as everyday life, there's not

much to talk about. In other words, I was skinny and now I have a

reason to stay that way. Obviously there's more to it than that,

especially for folks with weight/hunger issues, but it's the

********ON******* part that really concerns me, and that has occupied

fairly absurd amounts of my attention in the past year. It could

take a whole lifetime to even get a partial grip on ON, and obviously

there's a huge range of approaches out there (all theoretically

compatible with " CRON " ), so it's been a pretty intense experience

trying to make my own choices with some modest degree of

confidence. A few months after reading BT120YD I came across the

Weston A Price site during one of my many websearches about

nutritional matters, and I bought Nourishing Traditions. These

discoveries have been by far the most important breakthroughs I've

made in my quest for ON, far eclipsing the great jump-start I got

from BT120YD. In fact, BT120YD doesn't do such a great job of

steering people away from highly questionable foods, and now I wince

at the thought of a few aspects (i.e. low-fat, lots of unfermented

soy, etc) in my early days of post-Walford attempts at ON. Slowly

but surely I've been almost totally won over to the WAP/NT school of

thought. I have a feeling some other people on this list might have

similar experiences, but I should warn that it might be a drawn-out

and slightly traumatic experience to have one's entire worldview

turned upside down. There are many aspects of NT that it took me

many months to finally adopt in my daily life. It's been quite a

ride. There are two excellent I recently discovered

related to this stuff: and beyondprice. Also, while

I'm recommending stuff, most people here probably already know about

CRON all-star Greg 's great site,

http://optimalhealth.cia.com.au/, but if not, then definitely check

it out! There's also an excellent group related to that

called " Optimal Health and Longevity " , which I just discovered

myself. ON is soooo non-trivial!!! I just thought of another good

resource: www.mercola.com. I've only looked at a few things on

there, but I think it fits in with these other ON resources. He

discusses CR on there often.

With wild-eyed enthusiasm I unreservedly recommend Nourishing

Traditions to everyone regardless of their perspective on food. I

think it's the most important book ever written about food, a

sprawling encyclopedic eye-opening life-altering masterpiece. I hope

some of the list members here will discover alternatives to the

processed foods they cling to.

Best regards to everyone,

Mike

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