Why eat fermented vegetables?
In the meantime, because for decades, adults and children with mood disorders, arthritis, multiple sclerosis, coeliac disease, learning disorders, mental and psychiatric disorders such as: autism, hyperactivity, attention disorders, dyslexia, dyspraxia, depression, schizophrenia, bipolar and obsessive-compulsive disorder, various eating disorders, epilepsy and much more and improvements, interruptions of the active phase of the disease or regression in many cases have been shown, simply with the dictates of the GAPS diet.
The GAPS diet protocol would have as its primary key the daily consumption of fermented foods.
A certain prophylaxis, then, even in healthy subjects, cats and humans, would not hurt.
Moreover, they are so easy to prepare that, from the point of view of costs and benefits, we would see the latter rise dramatically and exponentially, despite the former.
They improve general mood and mental health;
They contribute to the regression or disappearance of food intolerances;
They reduce the risk of cancer;
They are very powerful and energetic;
They prevent obesity;
They prevent diabetes;
They regulate the absorption of fats;
Detoxifies from toxins and heavy metals (now everywhere);
Activate and revitalize the intestinal flora;
Repopulate the intestine with good bacteria and control the putrefaction and proliferation of bad ones;
They contain higher levels of probiotics than any other probiotic that is marketed in tablets;
They are absolutely natural and if consumed daily they allow you to transform yourself into a Tiger Man!
There's no doubt that some people can still be skeptical and think that it's all a "stunt" or new-entry speech of the supporters of alternative natural medicine and new-age life-style, but it's not like that at all.
While it is understood that, as always, we cats take the necessary distance from all forms of extremism, we really feel obliged to recommend even to convinced lovers of classical medicine and of course to those who for certain diseases to that medicine must remain anchored ... that trying really costs nothing and certainly would not alter the clinical picture or have contraindications with any type of therapy that you are following.
Fermented vegetables, far from having been discovered now, have been part of your human diet for millennia. Until a few decades ago, your grandmothers' handouts, with their ancient charm, all lacework and laces, were full of treasures including pickles, in oil and various "preserves" made at home.
They were, in short, one of the main sources of natural vitamins and probiotics.
It is easy to think, therefore, that the ancient Greeks and Romans made extensive use of them. The Romans used to bring large barrels of fermented cabbage to war...today's sauerkraut. In all cultures, from east to west, they have practiced the fermentation of foods and their intake as a real medicine for the body.
Surely there was at the base the discourse related to the preservation for long periods of food, but the fermentation of the same in various processes (preparation and storage) developed the characteristic of being richer in useful enzymes, vitamins (especially C and B group), antioxidants, chelators (now very useful to us to detoxify from toxins and heavy metals) and lactic acid bacteria live, lactobacilli.
Not to mention the precious and rare vitamin K2 (necessary to integrate calcium into the bones and at the same time to remove the risk of accumulation in the arteries, thus avoiding arteriosclerosis) that is created in a successful fermentation.
What do fermented vegetables taste like?
Many people might imagine that the principle of fermentation is conceptually the basis of something that is "spoiling", the springboard for rotting.
In fact, that's the way it is. The cat chef... my putative father told me that according to him, unfortunately, this too is a beautiful and good mass mental conditioning to which you humans are constantly exposed.
Today, everything you buy is sterile, aseptic, and we expect it to be so.
For a faulty orange (which has developed penicillin on its rind, certainly not depleted uranium) you are able to throw the whole package to the rubbish!
In fact, it seems that the directives of supermarkets and malls require the operator to eliminate, discard and throw away even the packaging of oranges for example with the plastic net slightly torn by a flap. And with all the oranges intact inside! Not to mention the daily tons of fresh food eliminated only because, on the label, it bears a date (not the expiry date but the date of consumption, preferably by the end of the year) that is too close.
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