Amadeus Schmidt wrote:

> With the simplest and cheapest vegetarian diet you miss *nothing*,
> not protein, no vitamin, name whatever you want.
> Probable exception vitamin b12. Which is found in sauerkraut, in milk
> products and is produced in human intestines, a healthy flora provided.

I wonder, didn't they have chickens, pigs, goats and the like? As I
mentioned in a post yesterday, the Japanese for many years, centuries,
followed a "vegetarian" diet for religious reasons. But there were so
many exceptions, fish were ok, and birds, and rabbits (considered as
birds, I have heard) and when they were sick, etc. etc. Basically they
only refused to eat large mammals, and even then they continued to eat whales.
>
> Worked for people doing hard work, and for a lifetime.

I would be interested to see their skeletons, how robust they were.
What do you think of the Weston Price  site, lots of similar sounding things
there on traditional diets, but they claim there are very few truly
vegetarian "native" diets.

>
> The only plausible dietary reason I know *not* to eat a whole grain based
> diet are their content of lectins and phytin.

Because wheat makes me feel sick. I don't worry about lecithin's and
phytins because cooking destroys most of them.