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Hi,

Yea I really enjoy spelt but I haven't tried to make bread out of it yet - but I will soon! I've also heard that it's an ancient form of wheat. I wonder why wheat has developed gluten over the centuries though. Was this a natural process or human-caused? Perhaps wheat has evolved in some sense?

Thanks for the information Cool dude. Miso soups and other fermented foods are really great.

I completely agree that one needs to adjust themselves to macrobiotics over time but I have no appetite anymore for the foods I once ate, so I've eliminated most of them from my diet. But introducing larger amounts of whole grain is difficult. I've found that processing the grains a bit can aid much in digestion.

I'm not trying to invite any syndromes here but it makes sense to me to find the complement of the Macrobiotic diet in the West.. as a transition process at least. After all I've eaten close to no sea vegetables, miso soup, and more wheat than rice throughout my life. You seem to suggest that one should begin by completely adopting a new diet, followed in the East. But I figure, if you're in relatively good health you should steer to a mirror diet that uses Western grains and vegetables mainly, one that your body is more familar with. For instance, I recently read that that the healthy bacteria Lactobacillus bulgaricus usually does not reside in the intestines of Caucasians but is prevalent in those in the Orient.

There are certainly chemical differences in our bodies. These are things to consider. Of course everyone makes their own choices.

To good eating.