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daniel proulx <[log in to unmask]>
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Tue, 3 Jul 2001 16:42:44 +0200
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Hi Jean Claude,
I just red the Guy-Claude Burger about
instinctothérapie, and I am looking for something more
practical. Do you know about that?
As I deduct from your name, you may speak french, in
such a case, you can answer to me in french, as it is
my first language.
Thank you, Daniel.
--- Ingrid Bauer <[log in to unmask]> a écrit : >
>
> >
> >> I enjoyed reading your instinctive nutrition site
> info and presentation.
> Do
> >> you actually believe persons would choose to eat
> raw green leafy veggies
> since
> >> their taste cannot compare with the taste of
> luscious sweet fruits. Isn't
> it
> >> very necessary that humans obtain the nutrients
> within the greens?
> >
> >When the body really needs greens they can become
> almost as delicious as
> >fruits.
>
> It is true ,when i came back  in spring from a 3
> months trip in india where
> tasty greens were not available , i became crazy on
> greens really starving
> for them , corn salad ,lettuce chicorees and
> dandelion can taste excellent
> to me but ...
>
> In a natural environment the availability of greens
> is way greater than
> fruits  so the instinctive attraction don't have to
> be so strong
> the fruit requiring more work and effort to get them
>  for the purpose very
> attractive to the eyes and taste.
> In an unatural food supply like when you buy , you
> are most likely going to
> end up eating less greens that you would in a
> natural quest for foods.
> On top of that domesticated fruits have been bred
> with the intent of making
> them easier to the instinct  it is even worst with
> modern varieties .( I
> hate the taste of seedless watermelon  or grapes the
> are so easy to eat but
> don't have any character) .
> other thing greens taste delicious when eaten while
> harvesting .It is
> impossible to make my 4 years old son eat greens
> when bought but when we
> harvest  ourselves he likes them ( nettle is his
> favorite)
>
> >
> >
> >> Infants need to have their foods pulverized until
> they have
> >> teeth?
> >
> >Mothers can "pre-chew" the baby's food product like
> it is the case among
> >many species
>
> fathers too, i did lot of chewing for my son, he
> started very early with
> foods ( few months  old ) and before he had teeth or
> could talk,  he was
> bringing me to the parsley patch and made me chew
> way beyond the stop for me
> . It was amazing the amount he could swallow , same
> with nettles.
> for information his mother was trying to eat
> instinctivily and ended up not
> eating greens because of the problems mentionned
> higher up.( he breastfed
> till recently the day our 2 months baby was born)
> he definitevelly wanted greens and parsley and
> nettles are no easy greens,
> they let  you know when enough is enough..
> one trick to eat more greens , is to present
> yourself to them in priority
> before the fruits . I was eating them , first thing
> in the morning while
> working in the garden before my fruit lunch. or to
> make sure you do an
> evening meal without fruits.
>
> also since i started to eat abondantly animal
> products  my "desire for
> fruits dropped and my desire for greens is greater .
> happy grazing ( wild and alive is the best)
> jean-claude
> >
> >> Where are all these thousands of instinctive
> eaters in the USA?
>
> there is at least 3 ( soon 4 ) in british colombia ,
> my familly .
> >
> >Most of them are in Germany, France and Italy.
> There has been no
> >infrastructure in the US for Instinctive Nutrition
> so far. We are slowly
> >trying to built one.
>
> i started for few years networking with other
> instinctos world wide and do
> exchange of foods . unhapilly not that many
> instinctos went so far to adress
> the production of foods . In europe it is easy
> mother ORKOS take care .
> But if we want for the instincto experiment to last
> ( individually and
> colectivelly) we better do something because if we
> rely on cooked food
> producers we are doomed ( they just can't get it how
> important quality is).
> So i have great salmon, shrimps  here and grass fed
> lamb beef and chickens
> to
> propose  dried , walnuts and filberts sometimes and
> dry fruits
> what can you put your hand on in your aera?
>
> >> I would
> >> like to increase my circle of friends with
> hopefully smart raw/living
> >> food/instinctive eaters.
> >> I aim for 100% organic food and have difficulty
> >> purchasing it fresh or finding farms where I can
> pick it. Sometimes it is
> so
> >> wilted at the Whole&nbsp;Wheatery
> (my&nbsp;closest whole foods market in
> >> Lancaster, CA). I have noticed signs at Wild Oats
> (Orange County, CA)
> stating
> >> that their foods are waxed.
> >
> >Food supply is one of the biggest problem in the
> US. Food processing is
> >almost everywhere and is often hidden. Nuts in
> health food store are always
> >dried at high temperature or frozen to kill insects
> eggs, that is why
> people
> >get addicted to them.
> >Buy directly from producers is the best solution.
>
> being producers will be the only sustainable way  in
> the long run .when 5
> percent of the population is in charge of the food
> supply of the rest what
> do you expect.?
> if instinctos don't do the planting of the good
> stuff who is going to do it
> and what ?( never tried wild berries here we have
> thimbleberries  ,
> salmonberries  , trailing blackberries, wild goose
> berries,  2 kind of
> himalayan blackberries  ,wild strawberries , many
> varieties of huckleberries
> and blueberries ...
> we have the chance here that the destruction of
> species diversity is a
> recent phenomenon ( just over 100 years ), what
> happened to the wild supply
> of foods in your aera ,what is hapenning now ?
> who is better positionned than an instincto to have
> interest in saving the
> hundred of species that was the fare of the natives
> in north america .?
>
> So i propose for 25 dollars a "all what you can
> plant" working party ! so
> send the money , i do the planting if you can't do
> it yourself and obtain
> the right to have a  a butter nut or walnut  feast
> 25 years later. Anyone?
> jean-claude

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