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Message Subject Food Combining Made Easy by Herbert Shelton a progenitor from the Natural Hygienist Movement
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OP, one problem with your representation here of Natural Hygiene but it's an important one: 'whole grains' are not a part of the Natural Hygiene diet! grains are 'for the birds' literally. If and when they are used at all, it is only the green sprouts that are used. Food is eaten in its raw state only, as a rule, just as nature made it. If you cannot eat it that way, you were probably not meant to eat it at all.

I know it's only a little phrase, 'whole grains' but people who don't want to give up doping themselves with grain will try to sneak it into a discussion on healthy diet.
I recommend Frederic Patenaude as a still living source for further information:
[link to www.fredericpatenaude.com]

Another thing: burritos, hamburgers, pizza and...chow mein are neither 'cuisine' nor American. They are snacks meant,even originally, to be eaten on the street, not at home. We have strong regional identities with American food and I have personally read recipe books written in many languages other than English teaching people to copy some of them. I'm getting a little tired of seeing 'America' getting slammed by ignorant and marginally-literate writers who likely couldn't cook a decent meal if their lives depended upon it.

Natural Hygiene speaks for itself, and I happen to be an adherent, but I've never needed to see my nation's culture and people disparaged to feel encouraged to it and neither should you.
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I have to be honest. I don't really like your tone. If I disparaged "American" cuisine in the manner you suggest, I did not do it because I am "marginally literate" or ignorant. I believe that most food that is available in America today be it Italian, Mexican, Chinese or Mc Donald's has been Americanized. What I mean by this is that it is all starches and carbs mixed with proteins and is heavily processed. According to Herbert Shelton's book on food combining this is the tantamount "bad" combination and it is everywhere here in America.

If you want to argue semantics on the definition of "American Food" that's fine but I think it misses the point especially when discussing the last 40 years of food in America.

As far as grain you are correct. Shelton says to try and avoid grain but if you do have grain than at least eat a whole grain.

I actually need to do a little more research in this area as whole grains, even rice, quinua and beans are sort of like superfoods as they contain carbs and proteins. Shelton does not expound heavily on this subject in the book that I reviewed.

Remember, this is a book review I wrote. It is not necessarily representative of the entire Natural Hygiene Movement but I would not even know they existed if it were not for Herbert Shelton and this book Food Combining Made Easy. Also, I am attempting to connect with people who are familiar with popular culture and not so much with Natural Hygiene.

I am glad to hear from you and I will look into the information you have provided. Many people are completely unaware and need to discover what American food companies are trying to do to them. The only way they will do that is if they actually try to eat differently.

I am open to suggestions on how to wake people up. For me this is the most important thing that I have learned in my life and it is one of the most difficult things to share, I think because food is something that we all take ownership over in our own way and in general people don't like it when other people try to tell them about the food they feel they already know. hf
 
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