Re: I feel so guilty..help!!

Hello, Shelleycat ...

You've responded to my second post on this board. My first one is located at //www.curezone.org/forums/m.asp?f=37&i=1033

I mention it here because I've had such a wonderful experience with sprouted spelt that it seemed time to speak up and share it with people.

A breakfast of sprouted spelt topped with sunflower seeds and sliced almonds (pre-soaked) with a little diced dried pineapple and papaya is just simply orgasmic.

Although I don't eat "cooked" food, myself, sometimes I will pour some boiling water into a big soup mug and gently stir in just that amount of finely-grated fresh vegetables that it takes to bring the temperature of the water down to a degree that's almost comfortable to eat. Then I add a spoonful of sprouted spelt and a little Bragg's amino acids and have a food that's fit for the gods as well as still very much alive with enzymes.

Another thing I will do early in the morning and late in the afternoon is pour some boiling water over a cinnamon-apple-spice tea bag (Celestial Seasonings) and, after it has steeped a little, add half a tablespoon of live apple cider vinegar (Bragg's) and half a tablespoon of honey (organic). It tastes rather like warm apple juice and has an exquisitely restorative effect on my system. I read once where natural (non-pasteurized) apple cider vinegar helps the body to eliminate "sediment" but what that is or whether it's even true I don't know. I just know that it's a wonderful way to wake up in the morning and a dependable way to perk up in the afternoon.

Your comment about our bodies needing fat so badly reminded me of a couple of things I do in that department that have also proved very effective. One is that I make and drink a pint of almond milk every day, and the other is that I grind up flax seeds in a Krupps coffee grinder and either sprinkle them on my salads or include them in a smoothie or both. I find them very soothing and restorative, and I like to think that my body is capable of removing the precious oils from the freshly ground meal, but that could be wishful thinking on my part. If it is, then my "back-up plan", oils-wise, is ripe avocado on my salads and, of course, the incomparable luxury of freshly-made almond milk.

Although I do agree with you that some heating is okay, what I have found for my own self is that food "cooked" to the point where the enzymes it contains are killed causes me to crave more of the same. I read somewhere that this is because it is acid-forming rather than alkaline-forming like live foods are, but how true this is I don't know. I just know that a slice of raw "live" potato behaves entirely differently in my system than a lump of cooked "dead" potato. One makes me feel like dancing, and the other makes me feel like sleeping.

As far as your upcoming post on "anti-nutrients" is concerned, I surely do hope you will let me know when and where you post that because I would very much like to read it. A friend of mine told me recently that a friend of hers ran out of whatever it was she normally sold in her food booth at a fair and, since all she had left was a big stack of Hostess Twinkies, she unwrapped them and dropped them into her hot-oil vat and proceeded to do a land-office business in deep-fat-fried Twinkies.

How many anti-nutrients do you suppose those contain!

Regards, Elizabeth ...