I was bought a large selection of raw nuts and seeds
(pecans, peanuts, almonds, sunflower seeds, and
pumpkin seeds) this weekend, and although raw nuts
don't appeal to me at all, the seeds didn't seem bad.
So yesterday around noon I ate maybe a half pound of
raw hulled pumpkin seeds.

I felt fine for several hours, and then around six I
started to get into this really black mood.  It was
weird because I haven't been depressed - even
fleetingly - for at least as long as I've been eating
raw, about six months. (It used to happen a lot
though, especially in the winter.)  I didn't associate
it with what I ate until today, in retrospect.

Around nine p.m. I hadn't yet been hungry, which
worried me, because I usually am hungry every four or
five hours.  I ate anyway.

The next morning I awoke with dull cramps in the bowel
region and a general feeling of malaise, which only
lifted when I finally eliminated about midmorning.
Only then did I actually get hungry again.

My reaction was to decide that the pumpkin seeds were
evil and that I should have nothing more to do with
them.  Then I began to wonder if they might have
caused a productive, detoxificating episode.  Does
anyone have any ideas about this?  Should I throw the
seeds away, which I almost did, or maybe eat some
every other weekend and grit my teeth?

--
ratha grimes
                      http://www.angstrom.net/~ratha/
            "...therefore, if thou like, rain, O sky!"