Hi Jean-Louis, you wrote: >I tried cassia, but I got a stop after 3 disks... I couldn't eat much more when I started with Cassia. And 5 disks sent me to the toilet within 10 minutes. :-) But don't give up! It's really a useful plant, more like a medicine than a fruit. Just try it if you no- tice detox symptoms (mucus, icky skin, running nose, headaches,...) Jean-Louis: >I didn't have any infections (by the way, I have *never* had any >infections in my life, even on cooked food+dairy, despite injuring >myself many times). The You are too healthy. That has advantages but also disadvantages: if you do something wrong you mostly don't notice it. I think, that all hell would break loose if I'd eat one pound of cheese. Really - you never ever had a cold or a flu or did you mean just skin infections in wounds? Thanks for the explanation of your dairy consumption. Personally I don't feel attracted to dairy. It offends my nose mostly and there's not much I had to give up when I changed to raw nutrition: just my fresh (pasteurized of course) milk and here and there some yoghurt and cheese. But to be exact I never stuck on my nutrition and gave up everything if only I had found good arguments against it. I find eating is an obsolete task. If I could manage to become a breatharian I certainly would do it. Jean-Louis: >I also read that E. Coli is harmless, but are you sure it is "needed"? I was until Sylvia's post. So it seems to be necessary to divide into "good bacteria" and "bad bacteria" again even within one type. Crazy game. I guess, that the bad guys are those, which have been watched to cause problems while the good ones are those, which have been noted to be present but without problems. If this indeed is the criterion then this game can be continued forever. Just classify formerly "good" bacteria as bad when they suddenly started to cause problems. If my memory serves me right, I remember, that exactly this is played by scientists. On the science-page of my newspaper I read several ar- ticles about microbe X which until now has been thought to be needed in the intestines but now has been found out to be harmful, at least in people with problem Y. Jean-Louis: >Side note: as far as vaccinations are concerned, I am ready to accept the >risk, i.e. no be vaccinated against TB, given the very low risk of getting >infected. The risk may be higher than you think. I hear, that in big cities (like mine) TB is again spreading (sp?). The difference to former occurrences is, that our fantastic antibiotics don't work any longer, because the microbes have become resistant to them. Sounds nice, eh? =:O One might think over the question, if a new kind of "antibiotically se- lected" microbe even would have killed paleolithic people... Less infectious wishes, Stefan E-Mail: [log in to unmask]