tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3045634714760830992.post6578552697194137525..comments2023-06-05T11:51:38.383-04:00Comments on Evolutionary Psychiatry: The Basic PremiseAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04429177284200775781noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3045634714760830992.post-25382771638547219352012-05-03T16:16:49.289-04:002012-05-03T16:16:49.289-04:00I have been doing homemade kefir from kefir grains...I have been doing homemade kefir from kefir grains for about a year now, not commercial kefir. When I first encountered the idea of the paleo-diet, I did not want to let go of my kefir, and so I have thought it through. It is true that human beings have not had time to adapt to kefir (1000 years), although we have been milk drinkers as infants since the dawn of the mammals. But homemade kefir has had plenty of time to adapt to humans. <br /><br />Why is there a problem with commercial apples (lots of fructose)? There used to plenty of wild apples that a paleo family could eat and adapt to. The problem is that agriculture bred apples to have more fructose and be bigger and brighter and more delicious. They sell better this way. In my own life time I have seen apples go from only Red Delicious being sold to perhaps 5 or 10 different kinds being sold.<br /><br />But homemade kefir was always a homemade treasure, which was cultured in goat stomachs. Kefir was made to adapt to the nutritional needs of the family, not the pocket books of the farmers. And since kefir is at least 1000 years old, it has had literally about 100,000 generations to adapt to the necessity of keeping the family healthy. The family with the best kefir thrived and their kefir thrived. The family with lousy kefir did not thrive and that kefir was tossed.<br /><br />Store bought kefir illustrates the difference between the breeding inside of the family and the breeding for profit. Store bought kefir deliberately takes out most of the beneficial probiotics, partly for shelf life and partly so that customers can't use the old kefir to culture new kefir. Store bought kefir is good for you, but it can't touch the homemade variety.Roger Birdhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17007960782863914229noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3045634714760830992.post-49122236425457643182011-09-03T16:57:24.387-04:002011-09-03T16:57:24.387-04:00Can you define what you mean by "organically ...Can you define what you mean by "organically grown produce"?<br />A local farmer told me his produce doesn't qualify as organic because he uses fertilizer on his fields.Ralph Doncasterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00037504544742962130noreply@blogger.com