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Several weeks ago I made biscuits with whole grain wheat flour which in- cluded the WGA, mixing the flour with organic yogurt and organic chicken fat. I mixed and baked them right away and ate one or two for several days and the rest went into the compost. This
past week I made biscuits with
the same recipe but put it on the warm mantel over my wood stove
and mixed it every few hours. The batter went from crumbly to a smooth batter as it fermented. Af-
ter about thirty-six hours I baked
the biscuits and have been eating
one or two a day.
When I ate the unferment-
ed WGA it took longer to pass through my body and my stool was thicker and harder, which was un- usual. Eating the fermented ones
my stool has returned to normal.
In addition, I noticed that after a couple days on the unfermented ones I felt stodgy, almost depressed, and couldn’t motivate myself to do much. I remember thinking at the time this was unusual for me and an important response. As of today, that mental stodginess is gone and I feel normal again.
While this is only anecdotal, it looks like the WAPF recommendations to soak and ferment grains and legumes might be the way we should be dealing with the lectin issue. Thanks for open- ing up an interesting nutritional trail to follow.
June Varner East Nassau, New York
ONE OF THOSE PEOPLE
Here’s a picture that would be fun
for the journal. The man in the photo
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tells me that some people say to him, “Oh, you are one of those people.” So he decided to embrace “Yes, I am one of those people.” So he sent a picture and a caption.
“Raw milk has been proven to
of all the reports stating the hazards of ingesting glyphosate.
Chronic conditions can often take a long time to display symptoms, and once they become evident they can be very difficult to diagnose accurately
and remediate. I’d like to add some very exciting information as a direct rebuttal to the Big Ag mantra, which claims the neces- sity for GMOs and pesticides to increase yields so we can feed the world.
There is a small European country, Holland, that has dem- onstrated an agricultural model with results that are absolutely amazing. Their model is a very synergistic one among gov- ernment, academia and farm- ers, which has made this small country the second agricultural exporter in the world behind the
U.S., even though the U.S. is over two hundred times larger geographically. They lead the world in exports of toma- toes, potatoes and onions and are over- all the largest exporter of vegetables.
Total water input for tomato pro- duction is by far the least of all the world’s producers using one-fifteenth that of the U.S., which is in second place. Their model uses many very large greenhouses (twenty-two acres is common) which provide optimal grow- ing conditions such that lettuce and other leafy greens production per acre grown inside produce the equivalent of ten acres grown outdoors with a 97 percent reduction in chemical input and a 90 percent reduction in water usage. With pesticide usage so low they do not grow any GMO crops nor export any GMO seeds.
be a superior nutritional product over pasteurized and homogenized milk. Why do we raw milk advocates have to fight for the right to consume it? Raw milk parents with young children will not speak out, as they have been threat- ened to be reported to Child Protective Services.”
Wouldn’t you know the Weston A. Price Foundation would be on top of the issue? Like raw milk, the Foundation is the cream—always rising to the top!! Thank you!
David Lindig Fergus Falls, Minnesota
AGRICULTURE IN HOLLAND
I thoroughly enjoyed the podcast interview with Zen Honeycutt in the Winter issue. I especially liked her re- sponse to those of us who are skeptical
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