Hi Gregg,

> > well, I recently read Aajonus' book.  He specifically says to find
> > unheated honey, but if you do, it is pretty "globby" and has lots of
> > particlate matter in it which most people don't enjoy.

> Does he say how much one can eat and why it's so good?

He says to eat as much as you like.  I believe that a lot is not good
for most people.  Remember, he discusses feeding honey+butter to a very
injured patient who couldn't eat.  Probably something like that, ALL
raw, all natural, and high in calories and a few nutrients is much
better than some of the hospital food or sugared-supplements or
IV-fed-nutrients if the patient is capable of eating. Of course some
rich natural foods like that for keeping weight up is probably a good
idea, going to be important if someone cannot eat.  If I were in a
severely injured state, I hope someone would feed me raw butter and
honey if I couldn't eat, until I could eat.  Or at least something raw,
natural and nutritious.  Ordinarily, I won't eat much of that type of
mixture.

> Well I don't have all the details but from what I remember 106ºF is the
> top end you can go for certain Enzymes and certain ones start getting
> damaged at about 96ºF or so, but I don't have the exact degree but I
> think I'm close; so 120ºF is why above it and you can probably be sure
> at least some things are being destroyed or at least damaged.

120F isn't WAY above 106F, considering commercial producers heat it to
160+F to speed up filtering it; everything is relative.  Where we live,
summer days are 110+F on hot days anyway so I'm not going to worry about
another 6-10 degrees.  If not heated to 120F to filter it, it gets all
clumped up with sugar granulation.  I can purchase unfiltered,
untreated, unheated, but personally, I dislike clumpy honey with lots of
particulate matter. I bet nearly all honey sold anywhere is at least
filtered with minimal heat.

> > I also think that too much sweet stuff, honey or anything else isn't
> > too good for most people - overworks your pancreas...
> What's too much?

Too much would certainly be if your heart rate was up, or you felt
fatigued after consuming honey.  Too much for me is usually more than a
spoonful or two in a day.  Springtime I can eat a little more, but
usually not.  I think that for athletic larger people who are active,
more is OK.  I mean, now I walk every day, but I used to work out
intensely and needed more food then.

> Also can you look at my post I did with the Subject: "Introduction, My
> Dietary History, and What's the Best Diet/Way to Eat and Why" and please
> tell me what you think and if the Subject is somehow misleading.  Does
> it sound like I'm telling people "What's the Best Diet/Way to Eat and
> Why" or asking a question?

FYI to me that sunded like a statement - not a question.

> Basically, what I want to know after telling you what I've been eating
> and why, is what is or are the best ways to eat for People and why and
> does it really make a difference on your Blood Type and/or Genetic
> Ancestry etc.; and please be specific on all the areas you wish to
> comment on from what you know and/or believe to be True and what your
> Personal Experiences have been doing different things etc..  So I'd like
> to what is your feeling on Raw vs. Cooked, Animal vs. Non-Animal, and
> all the other Types of Diets and Ways of Eating out there.

My opinion, both as a professional and personally:  generally, I think
people should eat a wide variety of foods; eat foods in season; eat lots
of fresh raw foods in their natural state; avoid processed,
manufactured, adulterated foods; eat organic or similar foods that
encourage good farming practices; that some cooked foods are OK, but not
the average stuff in an American supermarket; and especially good are
brown rice, cooked dry beans in soups, some meat-broths as you mentioned
- those have been used for a long time in Chinese culture as tonics in
areas where people have poor nutrition.  I like to eat organic produce;
I enjoy foods that are fresh, raw, in season, and I nearly always enjoy
lots of fresh sashimi style fish, - salmon is plentiful here now, and I
have had about 2+ pounds in the past 2 days.

Yes, I believe there are racial/genetic differences that influences what
is "best" for a particular person.  This makes some sense, as explained
in D'Adamo's book.  Cultural practices greatly influence this, however.
My mom was raised in China and has never acquired a taste for any type
of dairy product.  While of very similar ancestry, my Dad was raised in
the USA and enjoys dairy a lot, too much in fact.

I think completely vegan diets are deficient and lack certain types of
nourishment and energies that our bodies need.  Talk to anyone who has
been eating vegan style strictly for a long time.  It may help certain
health problems for a while, but I believe as a long term diet it
creates other problems.

> The other thing I want to know is that Aajonus basically says that you
> can eat all the Honey you want and I'd like to know what you All think
> about that; and he mixes it with other things so I guess that masks the
> taste so that you can eat more than you'd normally eat on it's own and
> so is that a good or a bad thing or neither.

Let's just assume that it is good for him. That doesn't mean it's good
for everyone.  He mentions he was poisoned by drugs and other things
that area highly toxic.  In the medical framework (traditional Chinese
medicine) I use, toxic is nearly always synonymous with "heat" (fevers,
inflammations), and honey is "cooling" and so are raw foods so it would
make sense that for him he would have needed lots of foods that are
cleansing, cooling and could assist him to clear poisons from HIS body.
But not everyone is "hot" and "toxic".

regards r
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