Congratulations for taking responsibility for your health and diet!
It sounds like you've already seen the deep crud of conflicting information
surrounding this way of life. You will have to be the one to decide what
makes sense to you and what doesn't fit.

Even the enzyme theory is controversial. What doesn't seem to be in question
is that food without labels eaten  in it's natural state is beneficial to
health.

The enzymes in food are denatured (destroyed) above about 115 degrees. The
Enzyme Theory states that foods taken into the body with the enzymes present
to break those foods down make them easier to digest and assimilate. Some
people do not agree with this at all as they believe that enzymes are
destroyed in the stomach and the body must produce all of it's own digestive
enzymes.  Lots of arguments on both sides of this.

As far as the Corn goes, supposedly, it doesn't take up the pesticides as
much as other veggies and fruits, but it's probably genetically modified in
some way as the huge agrifarmers have screwed up corn in a major way many
foreign countries won't import our corn. Even Organic labeling is watered
down in standards from the past.

If I were eating the corn, I'd probably wash it the way I do other produce
(that is if your talking about sweet corn, not dried popcorn) in a mild h2o2
bath for 20 minutes or so, but  it's not going to kill you not to. (at least
not right away, and there's lots of other stuff out there waiting to kill us
anyway, so raw corn is not too threatening!)  Some corn (popcorn) can be
sprouted and eaten as well.

Personally, It's too starchy and I don't like the taste and so I don't eat
it too very often and when I do, it's ever so slightly steamed.

Good luck on your journey. No matter what you do, you've come into a
different state of consciousness just in trying as you have opened up to a
whole other world.
 Information will come to you and you can decide what you want to
incorporate and what you want to let go.

Blessings of good health,
Cindy

-----Original Message-----
From: Raw Food Diet Support List
[mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of William
Sent: Monday, January 10, 2005 9:16 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Raw Corn ok to eat without cleaning?


On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 02:33:02 -0800, boat1400 <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Is it ok to chop up raw corn and just munch on that?
>
> I am new to the whole raw food thing, and am trying to
> ease my way into it, and get off the horrible diet I have
> been on all my life. My brother is helping me & encouraging
> me
> to do this!
>
> I went to the organic store, the one that sells the
> corn from a bushel looking thing, and I weighed out
> a bag of it, and here are my questions:
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> 1.) do I need to wash the corn in any way, or can
> I just put it in the grinder and kind of grind it down
> and munch on it as a snack? (it tastes prett good raw!)

I eat it raw off the cob every year, in season. I've also eaten baby corn,
the ears are maybe 3 inches long or less.
Just shuck and eat.
>
> 2.) if I have to wash it, won't this destroy all the
> 'living' things in it, like enzymes (and other things
> we haven't discovered yet).

Washing is OK, but not needed unless it has become somehow "dirty". To0 me
this means sprayed with some chemical such as fungicides, common in the
food industry.
>
> 3.) is raw corn even considered healthy, or should
> I start out with something like fruit or tomatos
> (i.e. something with squishy juice inside it
> like tomatos).

No. Corn is a cereal grain. All cereal grains are bad for us. Most fruits
contain too much sweet, this feeds the overgrowth of yeast/mold/fungus
that most of us have.
>
> 4.) Am I right to say that anything a person does to
> the corn, like cooks it or steams it or whatever, kills
> the 'living' part of the corn? Thats the theory, right,
> that these foods straight from the vine to your stomach,
> have lots of enzymes and things that are really healthy
> for you?

You got it.
>
>
> Any comments would be most appreciated.
>


I would wish you good luck with this, however we make our luck, and you
shall see it for yourself.
Life gets better with the paleolithic diet.

Wassail



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