12 Steps to Whole Foods

CHAPTER 8
Preserving Raw Foods with
Natural Probiotics
Your Goal:
To learn about why fermented foods promote excellent gastrointestinal health and begin making and
eating them.
What You’ll Need:
You will need wide-mouth quart or pint jars as well as a wooden pounder for making sauerkraut, and
quart or half-gallon jars for making yogurt/kefir. You may wish to purchase kefir grains to make kefir
or culture starter to make yogurt and/or fermented vegetables. Find a source under those topics on
GreenSmoothieGirl.com under “Robyn Recommends.”
When I took the step of making
and eating fermented foods, my
family and I completely stopped
getting sick. Where I used to get
sick 10 times every winter
throughout my childhood,
college, and well into my 20s, I
now go year after year after year
not getting sick at all.
The importance of this step
cannot be overstated, especially
in a world where harmful viral
and bacterial organisms are
becoming “superbugs” and antibiotics are no longer the savior they once were.
If I had to pick the two most important steps in this course, it would be Step 1 (green smoothies) and
this one. Why is this Step 8, then, rather than Step 2? Because it's very unfamiliar to most people. If
you are ready for it, you are an advanced thinker and you are a truth seeker willing to do what most in
the mainstream won’t. My observation is that even if their lives are at risk, most people will not change
their diet.
Not that this step is difficult. It’s amazingly easy. But I say that to congratulate you. These are easy, but
advanced-thinking, habits.
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