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Thanks Modwiz (Post #23639) – your support helps me stay steady – please, give me your take on eggs... I am getting weak and want some scrambled eggs so freaking badly.
I think eggs are a perfect food. Eating them raw is the finest quality protein you can get. Cooking them breaks the protein chains. Raw eggs are basically tasteless and any reluctance is all mental. Some worry about salmonella. Pfft! Bring it on. Just something else to digest. LOL. I just saw this post.
I have several books with information that you may be interested in about eggs from two people on the planet of billions. I eat eggs, but too many days in a row I get hives.
I am not a macrobiotic purest. Meat, dairy, sugar, caffeine are not part of the macrobiotic way. I eat foods such as garlic and oil pizza, Ben & Jerry’s, and cream cheese and bagels, Paul Newman’s cookies, blue corn chips (from health isle). To name a few. With that said, it’s not a judgement post.
“Food and Healing,” by: Annemarie Colbin
“...What are the psychospiritual effects of consuming eggs? From my observation of people whose major source of animal protein is eggs, I would say that too many eggs encourage a tough and brusque attitude, perhaps overwhelming gentler feelings of kindness and patience*. On the other hand, modest amounts of eggs - just as with meat, fish, and fowl - support aggressiveness, drive, and the ability to run a business and to actualize potential energy.”
*This part of the sentence is confusing in it’s
placement: “...perhaps overwhelming gentler feelings of kindness and patience.”
From the macrobiotic point of view:
“Basic Macrobiotics,” by: Herman Aihara
The most yang, acid-forming animal food is egg. The order of animal foods in the chart are: shellfish, white meat fish, fowl, meat, red meat fish, lastly eggs.
"All foods can be divided into yin and yang according to Oriental philosophy, and into acid-forming and alkaline-forming foods according to Western science. When we combine these two concepts we get four basic categories of food. The foods in each group are ordered from the most yin item within the category to the most yang.
- Yin Alkaline-forming: honey, coffee, herb tea, spices, fruits, seeds, most vegetables, some beans.
- Yin Acid-forming: chemical drugs, pills, sugar, candy, soft drinks, alcoholic drinks, some beans, nuts
- Yang Alkaline-forming: Bancha tea, dandelion tea, lotus root, burdock root, sesame salt, soy sauce, miso, umeboshi, salt
Yang Acid-forming: grains, fish, cheese, chicken, pork, beef,
eggs
Yin foods have a tendency to cool the body, loosen muscles, reduce tension, slow down movement, prolong sleeping time, and cause excretion to be loose and have less color. If eaten in excess for you condition they make you tired, cause anemia, paleness, loss of appetite, and slowness in speaking. If you have a yin condition, eating an excess of yin foods will make it worse.
Yang goods have a tendency to warm the body, tighten muscles, cause tension speed up movement, lessen sleeping time, and cause excretion to be harder and darker, When taken in excess they can cause fever, a reddish face, constipation, and rapid speech.
In terms of our mentality, yin foods tend to cause yin emotions and thinking such as fear, suspicion, sentimentality, worry and resentment. Yang foods cause such yang emotions and thinking as hostility, aggressiveness, noisiness, and ruthlessness."
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