>Greetings,
>I was curious about a statement below regarding the use of grains.  How
>do you eat the grains raw?  I have always found this to be more than I
>could manage as grain is so darn hard to chew.  Also what signs would
>one regard as indicating  the need for grains in the body?

grains  and pulses should never be eaten dry they contain antinutrients ,
enzyme inhibitors that make them not very  assimilable.
To eat them raw they have to be either freshly harvested in the milky stage
or rehydrated and sprouted .
There they can make a cheap nutritive ( protein rich , ) addition to a
frutarian diet when fruits and vegetables reveal themselves insuficiante to
whoever hold on on staying vegetarian.

jean-claude


>
>Thank you for any info
>
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>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Martha Brassil" <[log in to unmask]>
>> Nameste if you manage to live so healthily on fruits and vegetables I
>wonder
>> what country are you living in? The reason I am asking this is because
>> living in the colder northern hemisphere it is difficult to maintain
>health
>> on such a diet as it is overall too cooling ot the body. This then
>tends to
>> undermine the intergrity of the adrenal glands which then lowers
>digestive
>> power. i find that there are certain bodies who need the inclusion of
>grains
>> in the diet for health and and maintaining water balance in the body.
>> I found a diet of just fruit and vegetables too eliminating for my
>body
>> although I appreciate that others do ok. One has to look at the long
>term
>> implications of an all fruit diet. Our livers for optimal function
>need a
>> certain amount of protein. I do not believe that this can be got from
>fruit
>> as I lost too much weight on an all fruit diet and only gained it back
>when
>> I put good quality protein back in my diet.