Hi Stefan, Kirt, I find this cooked vs raw stuff really interesting, so I thought I'd share my experience: I always hated cooked fish, ever since I can remember, from the first time I had it around age 3 or 4. Every time I tried some (about 20-30 different kinds) I'd hate the taste and feel ill. In my teens I first had sashimi, the Japanese styled raw fish. Now that I think about it, after eating raw fresh fish then I could eat some cooked fish without the previous reaction I used to have. For several months now I routinely eat plain fresh raw fish (about 3 - 8 times per week), and cooked only if I cannot find a fresh catch. The discussions I see here about eating raw but aged or dry fish sound unappetizing. Stefan Joest wrote: > I'm not blocked to these, but still I seem to be blocked to those damned > seaveggies which I n e v e r ate cooked (as far as I can remem- > ber). So what do I make of this??? > Well, I'll attack them again next week. I've got some idea that it > will work this time. :-\ Perhaps you don't need them rightnow. I'm not sure how much difference there is nutritionally between toasted and cooked nori, but that is one seaweed I eat a lot - the toasted nori. While at times I eat many of the other types (purchased dry, then re-hydrated and uncooked), I like to/often eat 10-20 sheets of the toasted nori at one meal (with other things too). I grew up having sea vegetables cooked in soup, and never really liked or disliked the taste...to me most of the cooked vs uncooked don't taste that different except for nori. So I'm just trusting that and eating the cooked nori. Kirt: > >"unblocking" for a particular food over there? I remember hearing of an > >instincto women who just couldn't enjoy durian until it was suggested > >that she eat some lightly cooked (160F) after which she VERY much > >enjoyed raw durian--that is, she was "unblocked" for it. Sounds > >interesting to me. > Ah, so I should boil those nasty seaveggies a little and eat a tiny > amount of them? Ha! That would be worth a try! I read somewhere (Gerson's book I think) that too much salt can be trapped in your body, and if so then your body would want to get rid of excess salt and treats it like a toxin; and certainly Gerson's natural juice/detox program for cancer exclude salty foods. Personally I think a healthy body is probably fine having some salt in the diet, but perhaps if you have a dislike of sea veggies you might be needing to avoid salty stuff (my speculation) --- or something else in there- - anyway if that were the case I would imagine seaweed would be not good for one, because it does have salt, as noted in another post today. As for me I only recently had such strong cravings for nori, and my thought is perhaps my body is now using it to help get rid of old toxins, which it was not ready to do before. In TCM most seaweeds are supposed to help the body to get rid of lumps and excess phlegm and toxins that cause those. There are times when sea vegetables have no appeal to me so I just trust that my body needs certain things from different foods at different times. regards, roberta [log in to unmask]