all plants have "antinutrients" or antibodies--some amount of toxins, after all, they don't really want to be eaten--they want to grow and perhaps multiply. Like us. :-)
Apple seeds are highly poisonous, yet you have to eat a great quantity to kill you--and if you eat the whole fruit, they are no problem. (There's innate wisdom in "whole foods" that we have ignored, in the rush to get more, faster, with less work) I like the idea of gren drinks, but think it's pretty easy to overbalance the apple cart, so to speak.
You might like to google what
Andreas Moritz has to say about raw foods, and all that realm. And then there's this. People are always told to chew their juice. The human body wasn't sdesigned to have all this blended stuff poured through it, causing an immune response to the antibodies, which can be interpreted as an energy rush, and then after a time, become a serious drain, leaving a aperson mystified. Andreas has a lot of good posts to read and explore.
Another thing that's interesting, much as it's nice to not have to 'work' at chewing raw kale, etc... Apparently the body needs to chew in that it activates the parasympathic nervous system...so that people on the
Water Fast who are bored or maybe a little down, might very well be missing 'chewing', but not because of the food so much--maybe because it's linked to the whole system and the release of hormones and all that. The 'feeling good'.
Once a person passed through the mental barriers in the water fast, things shift into another place. You know "you" are not the body at all, but some still point within it, that in fact encompasses it and has no limits.
just a few thoughts.
:-)
Chiron
Edit: woops! I thoiught I was on the
Water Fast forum, hence the WF talk.