Guest guest Posted July 5, 2008 Report Share Posted July 5, 2008 Will Though I agree with you wholeheartedly, I am trying to ease my mom into this bit by bit. After the death of my dad in 2000 and then again after my sisters death in '06, my mom found her comfort in food and gained significant amounts of weight after each instance. She is finding her way back to health now, and has lost half of the weight she wants to lose by just eating healthy and often. To get on the right track she counts portions, not calories. So by the end of the day she's eaten a certain portion of fats, veggies, protein, fruit. I am trying to help her work in things like kefir and other real foods to better her health. She actually passed on it, but wanted to try my kombucha tea. After a couple weeks with that, she started feeling differently, more energy etc and is now open to the kefir experience. SO --- a bit long winded here-- I just want to give her the facts on kefir. If I make it with real milk, does one cup have the same amount if fat, protein etc coming out as going in? Does separating the whey after second ferment mean less protein in the remaining kefir? Does a second ferment change anything besides the effervesence and lactose? Via iPod Touch Susie, tell us more about the " specific eating plan " that your mother is on. Also which " nutritional facts " that you are specifically looking into for your kefir. My personal perspective is that most " eating plans " are stylized and designed for some " average " person that doesn't really exist. We are all SO different. Also, my personal bias is that the majority of food component measuring just obscures both common sense and true nutritional wisdom. The nutritional " bean counters " change their opinion every 5 minutes about what we " should " be eating. Traditional nutrition wisdom NEVER CHANGES. From the NT perspective, kefir is a tradition going back thousands of years in those high Russian cultures that used it for preserving milk back in the old days before refrigeration. Kefir-eating peoples such as the Caucasians are one of the 5 groups of people that have the longest lifespan of anyone in the world. No matter what the slice-and-dice scientists say about what they can measure, the most important things in food (and life) cannot be measured. Some people should eat kefir type milk products, others not so much. My advice would be to make the best kefir you can, then either muscle test your mother with it (if you don't know how, go to a holistic practictioner who can) and see if it works FOR HER. You could also do it as a slow introduction into her diet. You can't possibly go wrong with that kind of " eating plan " . Will Winter Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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