What are your thoughts on oxalates?

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Permalink Reply by Jade on May 27, 2012 at 1:50am

Maybe so, but I still haven't seen any evidence that excessive amounts of them are good.  If you do a quick Google search, you will see many articles pointing to them as inflammatory agents!

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Permalink Reply by Dovima on May 29, 2012 at 12:20am

Jade.......I didn't say I agree. I don't need to do a google search.  I was just referencing the green smoothie queen's idea.  Everyone has ideas..........

     You can find whatever you want to find on Google.  Common sense and experience are more important.

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Permalink Reply by Lucia on May 29, 2012 at 10:10am

I second that. Finding health advice through google has led me to eat many "healthy" things which actually negatively impacted my health a lot.. Listening to your body is more important :)

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Permalink Reply by Jade on June 2, 2012 at 1:21pm

Absolutely to both of the above.  But many of us found this through Google :)  You can't control the media (and these days I think Google counts as media,) but you can choose what to accept and what to discard. 

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Permalink Reply by Lucia on June 2, 2012 at 2:35pm

Yep sift through the rubbish to find the gems :)

I've just finished building my garden bed and planted some lettuce and kale. I have reasonably good soil. Do you think that my greens will contain more calcium than shop bought? If buying greens it's most important to buy organic right? Pesticide free and better soil =higher mineral content, right? Sorry sometimes I just feel I need confirmation on my thoughts. Thank you :)

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Permalink Reply by Greenmama on June 4, 2012 at 1:59am

You can get your soil tested.  It's hard to know if your soil has good levels of calcium or not.  But I would save money on the soil test and add rock dust to your soil, which will increase the mineral content.  Yes, organic is usually going to be better.  But there are no "rules" for organic companies to make sure their soils have good mineral content.  So that can vary.

I wouldn't worry about any of this too much, and just keep trying to get the best quality food that you can.

Permalink Reply by ednshell on May 26, 2012 at 4:02pm

http://rawschool.com/best-raw-foods/

Cruciferous Vegetables

Broccoli Cauliflower Cabbage Brussels sprouts Kale Bok choy (greens) Collard greens Spinach

All are disqualified as optimal or even appropriate due to high cellulose content. Our bodies have limited ability to access the nutrients encased in the cellulose structure, so most of what we eat of them must only be eliminated from the body, which unnecessarily taxes our eliminative processes. These vegetables also contain irritating and indigestible oxalic acid and are bland or unpleasant to eat in their raw state. The exception in this category is young or baby spinach, which has what most people describe as a pleasant flavor and is relatively easy to digest in moderate quantities since its oxalic acid content is low at this point in its growth.

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Permalink Reply by Dovima on May 26, 2012 at 5:52pm

and millet apparently, not that anyone in this neighborhood is eating it!

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Permalink Reply by Jade on May 27, 2012 at 1:51am

Yeah, never had much luck getting it to sprout

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Permalink Reply by Brian Heithaus on May 27, 2012 at 12:10pm

I like this site, thanks for sharing!  Quite a good case for the fruit diet!

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Permalink Reply by Lucia on May 28, 2012 at 10:49pm

Oh awesome so it looks like baby spinach is the way to go. I was considering broccoli but now I know that the cellulose inhibits absorption so I may give that one a miss. Maybe kale in small amounts since I just started growing it in my garden. Thank you for your help :)

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Permalink Reply by Paul M on May 27, 2012 at 3:37am

• I drink green smoothies daily whenever I can. However, I used to throw every green available in them when we belonged to an organic CSA farm. I luv them but did this in part cuz I thought they were 'good for me'. Intuitively, I stopped the heavier greens like kale, collards, etc cuz they just didn't feel right to me. Now I prefer more tender greens like young/baby spinach, chard, beet shoots, etc. for example, as beet leaves mature, i don't enjoy them so much. Weird but lettuce is probably the most tender of all and yet I don't enjoy it's taste in smoothies so much. I suspect it's cuz it oxidizes the most in a blender being so tender.
• There's also some that say chewing greens is better and more natural. And that blending greens in smoothies oxidizes them. This may all be true and I would not debate these points. However, I know for myself that I always feel better when I get a fair amount of greens into my diet. And I'm very clear this is exactly what happens when I do enough green smoothies - even if some would say it's not the optimal way to eat greens.

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