On Sun, 11 Nov 2001 09:57:57 -0500, Amadeus Schmidt <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>On Fri, 9 Nov 2001 17:04:10 EST, Judy Genova <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>(after introduction of unvitaminized white rice by colonialists many poeple
>died of beri-beri - that has been solved by the vitamin-enforcing)
>

>I think the brown varieties (of rice and other grains) are less popular,
>because they contain the problematic stuff - like lectins.
>People feel this.
>To eat these grains - as was done for several thousands of years after the
>neolithic transition - requires the proper processing.

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How was rice traditionally prepared (detoxified ) ?
(Before white rice was introduced by colonists)


Esben Brun