B-12 and Super-food Intellectualizing

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Dogmatic, long and winding, cerebral arguments against supplements and

super-foods and in favor our senses as absolute arbitors of what to eat have

certain intellectual appeal if you can make it through them.

 

But do they actually make sense?

 

While most of us do use our senses to determine what to eat, we also use our

brains. The vast majority of us understand that--though we might like to, and

might even be working toward getting there--we don't live in fruitopia. We live

busy lives in a toxic world. We realize that we need to heal, cleanse and

re-balance our bodies to achieve optimal health.

 

Because most us on the rawseattle list don't spend our days lazing around

orchards or rainforests full of highly-mineralized fruit, we make conscious

choices about our sources of food to support us on our path back toward health.

(We might also decide using our brains as a barmoeter of biofeedback from the

body that we need to cleanse and we might choose to use techniques that have

proven effective for others, but that is another discussion.)

 

Regarding super-foods such as maca--which by the way is a root, not a weed, I

do do see an important difference between eating an imported super-food that is

sustainable harvested and supports indigenous cultures and might actually do

something positive for your health compared to a non-organic, possibly

irradiated tropical fruit of very dubious nutritional value. The durian can be

nothing more than an unsustainable, indulgence. My experience is that

super-foods support re-gaining health for raw, vegans (who usually need to heal

toxic bodies that have resulted from toxic lifestyle in this toxic world). That

is why I consciously choose them as part of my diet. What I make available in my

class is how to understand their properites and use them properly exactly

because they are not whole foods and require use of one's brains in addtion to

one's senses.

 

And by the way, as a trained naturalist who know something about local, wild

food, I do eat the native weeds.

In class we'll have a wild salad with a delicious goji berry vinagerette.

I hope those out with brains as well as senses will make a sensible food choice

and decide to join us!

 

(Reminder: Super-Foods Class with Master Chef Bruce coming up soon!

Call 877 661 8117 or email thesunkitchen for more info or to register.)

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> And by the way, as a trained naturalist who know something about

> local, wild food, I do eat the native weeds.

 

What about the ones that aren't, eg. bittercress?