Eating by design: sprouts, root vegetables (WAS: brocolli sprouts) [s]

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Angela Elliott [thegoddess] Sent:

Wednesday, April 13, 2005 2:37 PM <rawfood >

rawfood [Raw Food] Re: brocolli sprouts

 

I am wondering how our bodies process sprouts like brocolli and other

cruciferous sprouts. Also curious about juicing something like Diakon radish

Are our bodies designed to eat root veggies like Jicama? What about things

like fenugreek sprouts and pea green sprouts?

 

I have been loving the posts lately!! AWESOME!

 

Thank you Elchanan for sharing your knowledge. I truly appreciate you!

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Hi Angela,

 

First, thank you so much for your kind words. I truly enjoy sharing when

people equally enjoy it!

 

My comments here on sprouting pertain to baby plant sprouts (i.e., those

that we allow to become a tiny plant with roots, not nuts, seeds, and grains

that are germinated by soaking, then eaten before they become a plant).

 

First, to clear up the term " cruciferous, " this term refers to the vegetable

produced by the plant, not the plant in all stages of development. When

these plants are very young, they are quite tender and fairly easy for our

systems to digest. As they mature, the amount of insoluble/nondigestible

fiber they contain increases dramatically, making them less and less a food

for us. In this sense, sunflower sprouts are an excellent food choice,

whereas sunflowers and sunflowers really are not. Similarly, broccoli

sprouts are a better food choice than broccoli.

 

Please note that some sprouts are quite spicy to the human mouth/tongue.

These are generally less desirable, the harsh taste equates to substances

our body interprets as foreign matter.

 

Regarding jacamar and root vegetables in general, animals referred to as

" gubbers " are physically designed to find, recover, and eat food buried in

the ground. Animals who naturally stand upright are designed to reach upward

or i the plane of the torso for their food. So I suggest, as a general rule,

allowing the grubbers to eat the grub and that we choose to eat the fruits

and tender leaves. Having said that, I know of no claim ever made that

jicama causes any disease known to man. So for optimal energy all the time,

eat optimally. To make choices involving tradeoffs, as between optimal

energy and certain social goals or desires, choose whatever suits you!

 

Regarding juicing, I believe it is almost always better to eat whole food

rather than that same food in a fractional form. Juicing creates one such

form by removing the fiber and some of the remaining nutrients while

concentrating others. We do not need concentrates, we need the whole food as

Nature designs it.

 

Hope this is helpful,

Elchanan

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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> Regarding jacamar and root vegetables in general, animals referred to

as

> " gubbers " are physically designed to find, recover, and eat food

buried in

> the ground. Animals who naturally stand upright are designed to reach

upward

> or i the plane of the torso for their food.

 

This makes a lot of sense to me. Does that mean that almonds and other

tree nuts are meant for humans to eat?

 

Also, not to keep harping on the salt issue, but I've noticed that a

lot of the recipies in Dr. Cousens' Rainbow Green book call for a lot

of salt, and his ideas seem to be well researched. Has he amended his

position on salt yet?

 

Peace,

Mike