Guest guest Posted January 25, 2006 Report Share Posted January 25, 2006 I've been hearing that Nama Shoyu isn't good for you, but not why. Can anyone expand on this and explain it to me? I use Nama in my Salad dressing recipe, is there a better alternative? Thanks! D- Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 26, 2006 Report Share Posted January 26, 2006 I've been hearing that Nama Shoyu isn't good for you, but not why. ~ Simply, it's because it is cooked, but then fermented. Fermented foods are not bad, but if you are trying to be 100% raw you don't want to eat cooked foods. Some people consider it raw because it has live enzymes, even though it was cooked, produced through the fermentation process. Everything that I have read thus far talks about a ‘brew process” (google: brewing namu shoyu), but no one talks about the process. I looked up the word ‘brew’ on dictionary.com and it states: To make (ale or beer) from malt and hops by infusion, boiling, and fermentation. To make (a beverage) by boiling, steeping, or mixing various ingredients: brew tea. Shoyu is the Japanese word for soy sauce made of soybeans, roasted wheat, sea salt, and koji (Aspergillus oryzae), mold spores that when exposed to moisture begin growing giving rise to unique enzymes that create the fermentation process. Here's what Dr. Gabriel Cousens says about Namu Shoyu in his book, " Rainbow Green Live Food Cuisine " : pg 26: Soy Sauce [Namu Shoyu], which is fermented by Aspergillus flavus, is another food on the mycosis black list [mycosis explained below]. In all soy products that are heated, MSG is naturally created as a byproduct. This includes nama shoyu, which is a cooked soy - wheat - barley combination that is then fermented, though not pasteurized. It is both an MSG and high - mycotoxin product. pg 151: These raw, soy = based condiments are popular flavoring agent for many raw food chefs. These products are not used, however, in the Rainbow Green Live Food Cuisine. This is because soy is difficult for the body to process and it is likely to be contaminated by GMO [Genetically Modified Organism] crops. It has also been shown that during processing there is a formation of naturally occuring MSG. Dark miso makes a good substitute for these products. pg 6: Mycotoxins: ...... When the biological terrain was disrupted, when people got too acid, then the natural fermentation process in the body was accelerated, and a morbid evolution of these microozymas would take place. They would coagulate and pleomorphically permutate into bacteria, yeast, fungus, and eventually mold. As these morbvid pleomorphic forms from the microzymas developed, they fed on our vital body substances and produced more toxins, which we call mycotoxins. This toxic process resulted in a degenerative disease symptomology. pg 7: Mycosis: Acid food, acid thoughts, low oxygen, environmental toxins, heavy metals, and lack of exercise all have the power to distort the living protit colloidal field. They can shift it from a healthy, creative, energetic matrix for cells and tissues into a morbid pleomorphic expression: an unhealthy field. These negative environmental stresses create a morbid pleomorphic change from the healthy protit energetics of life to bacteria and higher forms of yeast, mold, and fungus, as the protits pleomorphically transmute and coagulate. These higher morbid pleomorphic forms give off mycotoxins, which tend to break down our living tissues. These morbid pleomorphic forms, for which I use the word " mycosis, " also eat the sugar in our systems, the DNA, the proteins, the enzymes, and the hormones. They live off our tissues and vital fluids, and as they increasingly give off mycotoxins (in essence, their fecal waste), they further imbalance and acidify the system and create favorable conditions for more of these pleomorphic organisms to grow and, therefore, increase the state of mycosis. If you want more info on anything I copied from the book you'll have to buy it! Paula When it is dark enough you can see the stars Bring words and photos together (easily) with PhotoMail - it's free and works with your Mail. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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