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An other quote from Ray on fibers, I haven't seen what he says about potatoes mentioned on the forums:
Endotoxin: Poisoning from the Inside Out – Functional Performance Systems (FPS)
“Oatmeal and potatoes do provide fiber, but they are good food for bacteria, and bacterial endotoxin is usually the basic problem causing hormone imbalance, by being a chronic burden for the liver, keeping it from storing enough sugar to process thyroid and the other hormones effectively.”
Protective Bamboo Shoots – Functional Performance Systems (FPS)
Comprehensive Reviews in Food Science and Food Safety Volume 10, Issue 3, pages 153–168, May 2011
Nutritional Properties of Bamboo Shoots: Potential and Prospects for Utilization as a Health Food
Nirmala Chongtham, Madho Singh Bisht, Sheena Haorongbam
Bamboo is intricately associated with humans from times immemorial. Popularly known for their industrial uses, a lesser known fact of bamboos is the usage of its young shoots as a food that can be consumed fresh, fermented, or canned. The juvenile shoots are not only delicious but are rich in nutrient components, mainly proteins, carbohydrates, minerals, and fiber and are low in fat and sugars. In addition, they contain phytosterols and a high amount of fiber that can be labeled as nutraceuticals or natural medicines that are attracting the attention of health advocates and scientists alike. The shoots are free from residual toxicity and grow without the application of fertilizers. Modern research has revealed that bamboo shoots have a number of health benefits: improving appetite and digestion, weight loss, and curing cardiovascular diseases and cancer. The shoots are reported to have anticancer, antibacterial, and antiviral activity. Shoots have antioxidant capacity due to the presence of phenolic compounds. The increasing trends of health consciousness among consumers have stimulated the field of functional foods and bamboo shoots can be one of them. Bamboo fiber is now a common ingredient in breakfast cereals, fruit juices, bakery and meat products, sauces, shredded cheeses, cookies, pastas, snacks, frozen desserts, and many other food products. This review emphasizes the health benefits of bamboo shoots and their potential for utilization as a health food.
Nutrition. 2009 Jul-Aug;25(7-8):723-8. Epub 2009 Mar 13.
Effects of bamboo shoot consumption on lipid profiles and bowel function in healthy young women.
Park EJ, Jhon DY.
OBJECTIVE:
This study evaluated the short-term effect of bamboo shoot consumption as a dietary fiber source on blood glucose, lipid profiles, hepatic function, and constipation symptoms in healthy women.
METHODS:
Eight subjects, 21- to 23-y-old women, with normal health status received a dietary fiber-free diet (control), a diet containing 25 g of cellulose, and a diet containing 360 g of bamboo shoots, with each diet segment lasting 6 d. At the end of each diet, blood biochemical parameters, such as glucose, triacylglycerols, total cholesterol, high-density lipoprotein cholesterol, low-density lipoprotein cholesterol, glutamic pyruvic transaminase, glutamic oxaloacetic transaminase, and atherogenic index were measured and a questionnaire test for the evaluation of fecal excretion was taken. For statistical analysis, analysis of variance was performed.
RESULTS:
Serum total cholesterol, low-density lipoprotein cholesterol, and the atherogenic index were decreased with the bamboo shoot diet feeding compared with the dietary fiber-free diet. There were no differences in serum glucose levels among the tested diets. Fecal volume and bowel movement frequency in subjects fed the bamboo shoot diet were significantly increased.
CONCLUSION:
Bamboo shoots as a dietary fiber source has beneficial effects on lipid profile and bowel function.
Carrots may be advantageously used in a regimen that has for its purpose the changing of intestinal flora. Bertrand found that when rabbits were fed on potatoes, the urine contained indican, while the urine was free from indican when the animals were fed on carrots. The colon bacilli were more numerous in the colons of potato-fed rabbits. Bertrand thought that the greater amount of putrefaction in the potato-fed rabbits was due to the fact that there was less acid fermentation because less sugar was present. I was also noted that starch-digesting bacteria were present in smaller quantities in the stools of potato-fed rabbits.
This experiment shows the value of raw starch as found in green vegetables in reforming the intestinal flora.
I guess potatoes that have been cooked thoroughly don't contain enough fermentable material to keep bacteria occupied. It's unfair to compare raw carrots with cooked potatoes because cooking destroys the defenses, which is why it's good to have them flavored with some safe fats and spices, but the little indigestible carbs become even less accessible.A microscopic and bacteriological examination of the coating of the tongue shows it to be made up of epithelial cells, molds, yeasts and bactaeria. A potato culture medium inoculated with material gathered from a heavily coated tongue is in a few days covered with a luxuriant growth of molds, yeasts, and bactaeria. A great variety of organisms may be sorted out and among them are found the colon bacillus, the gas-forming bacillus of Welch, and various species of streptococci, pus-forming organisms, many of which are possessed of a high degree of virulence, and which may give rise to pneumonia, rheumatism, and other systemic diseases, to say nothing of pyorrhea, dental caries, and various other oral disorders.
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I believe people don't want to associate themselves with a primitive guru that relies on intestinal fermentation for nutrition. But on the other hand, the organ is still there wheter you like it or not. The best means to encourage its disappearance is through adequate nutrition. I already posted a review in which someone noted that the combination of proper nutrition and (therefore) lack of reliance on intestinal bacteria can be conflicting, the exchange is no longer useful. This exchange comes with a cost, and the more you rely on them, the greater the cost (such as in overgrowths). But since the organ is still there, you can't avoid fiber altogether because it will also create conflict. It's an odd thought, but it can be related to increased rates of divorce: when men had a clear role, and women another, they were complementary and dependent; but when there's autonomy, on the first argument, an axe is thrown at the other because it won't make as much difference as before, they have the clear belief that they can play each other's role with no problem.
If you want the supercentenarians' stories, they didn't seem to shy away from fiber, they seemed to choose agreeable ones instead. Milk, beans, greens, chocolate, fruits.
It's the conflicting situation that is the most damaging and dementing.
But once again, it comes down to keeping the intestines moving fast because there's the insurance that just a little bit of fiber will suffice, being enough to keep bacteria entertained and distracted without making much mess. For another relation of the ship analogy, it's like the girl that knows how to keep a lot of suitors by giving them an occasional light of hope so as they don't rebel and give up.
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Jennifer, it's unfair to use your charm to try to turn me against Diokine.Now see, there you go selling yourself short again. First you're a job with a vacancy, and now you're a stairway to heaven because you have connections. Why be a girl's stairway to heaven when you can be her heaven?