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>Anyway, yesterday I decided not to eat my seaweed anymore cause it smells
>disgusting, its` taste is the most terrible in the world and cause I don`t
>get swallowed it any more! I also decided not to study any more does my
>foods contain enough this and that vitamin, this and that micronutrient,
>proteins etc. etc. I also decided not to answer the questions people are
>asking me (where do you get your Calcium etc. etc.), instead, I ask them to
>tell me as I start looking bad or ill.

Congratulations - while I don't, unfortunately, always follow my instinct or
my body's messages wrt to food, in the periods where I have I learned that
they existed and gained great respect for them, in addition to feeling
really great!  Right now I am waiting patiently for summer to return, as
that is always a good food time for me - the cherries will be ready in early
spring and after that it's a rainbow of different fruits and veggies
ripening at different times till fall.  I digress.. basically I came to a
couple of conclusions, a) animals don't study calcium and protein
milligrams, so why should it be necessary for humans?  Shouldn't we be able
to re-discover our natural nutritional niche, whatever it might be, and
return to it, with nary a thought about micro-nutrients and
anti-anti-toxins?  and b) While the science of nutrition ( all those
micrograms) is perpetually intriguing to me, it occurs to me that with all
the millions of compounds present in foods, we can never really know what
each and every food does and how - we can only really learn by looking at
the big picture, not by zeroing in on chemicals that for all we know may be
counteracted or inhibited or whatever.

>I am going to eat only food that smells good and tastes good. It`s the way
>animals eat, but I`m afraid some of MY instincts may be hidden behind our
>civilization, but I still believe I`ve not lost all of them! Right now my

Indeed, I find I have to keep challenging myself to try new foods, so I can
discover all that tastes good, otherwise I end up eating apples & bananas
all day :) Also, I have realized that if I really followed my instincts, in
a natural setting (not the city in which I live) I would end up eating at
least some meat once in a while (i.e. not once a day, but more likely once a
week or month, and not supermarket or mcd's style meat, but raw lean wild
meat), and further, that that would be *ok*.  I can't see it happening
anytime soon, but I've grown to realize it's there and maybe one day when I
finally tire of the city and find some lost indian tribe to live with in the
forest, I just might follow that instinct..  we'll see..

>inner voice says that eating healthy does not provide any huge effort like
>gathering all information from all sources available. I know, intuitively,
>that eating in the right way is a simple thing. Does it apply to us,
>civilized people or just to animals and maybe some primitive human cultures
>only? Further, eating instincively might be a little bit easier in the
>tropics. So: Do you think I`m at a wrong place, do I have any hope to learn
>to eat instinctively?

I dunno - do you get any local fruit in finland??  Actually, one really good
point was raised once, that it's ok to eat lots of tropical fruits, even if
you live up north like you and I (Vancouver, Canada) because the environment
we spend most of our time in (indoors, relatively warm & comfy) is awfully
tropical-like :) It made me feel much better about indulging in my papayas
and bananas everyday :)

I think "instinctive" eating applies to us, in that we have not changed
genetically since the days of more primitive cultures.  But what *has*
happened is that living as we do we have learned most efficiently how to
ignore and run roughshod over our natural instincts/urges/knowledge, so
getting back to basics, so to speak, may be very difficult, depending on the
person.

Good luck!

ttul