Re: Beans and gas.

Hi grassman,

Thanks for your very kind comments.

Yes, the oligosaccharides are another problem with digesting beans. We don't have the ability to break down the oligo's so they get passed along slowly through the digestive tract with all the other cooked foods and undergo bacterial "digestion" which provides us with numerous toxic by-products of that process. You're not exactly selling beans to me here.

The high protein, fat and starch contents make for difficult digestion and that spells trouble for the body. If cooked, the denatured proteins, rancid fat and dextrinized sugars are not much good for us anyway so why put yourself through the struggle.

According to Susan Hazard, Ph.D.,
"Garlic draws out pain, helps in resisting a cold, is an aid in combating hypertension, is a remarkable vermifuge (releases worms from the system), quiets the body, tranquilizes, can be directly applied to warts to whittle them down, can be used (diluted in lots of water) to irrigate the colon to control amoebic dysentery, and can help treat mild cases of mononucleosis."

In other words, garlic is a powerful drug which results in the suppression of symptoms. But causes have not been removed and no healing has occurred. We have, in fact, halted the healing process when we suppress the symptoms."
http://www.rawfoodexplained.com/junk-foods-garlic-and-onions/claimed-health-b...


Enough said on that subject.

Cooking does serve a purpose and it's mainly to dumb us down enough that we don't realise that we're sacrificing our birthright of optimum health.

We are biologically and physiologically frugivores regardless of what our historians might tell us. We can deny the evidence but it doesn't save us from the effects of an incorrect diet.

And finally, if Dr Furhman is correct then we might as well close up Natural Hygiene and go home because the underlying principles will be false pretense and it's every person for themselves.

Yours truly,
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