Hi, all!
A good way to transition from fruit eating to cooked grains is by consuming miso soup, especially if one has done aggressive colon cleansing which could clear out with the crud a lot of the intestinal villi and helpful microorganisms that contribute to the digestion and assimilation of all foods.
Fermented foods such as miso helps both the helpful microorganisms and villi to replentish and when cooking onions, root vegetables such as daikon, and leafy greens such as Chinese cabbage, along with wakame, and maybe even dried shiitake mushroom, then you can be assured of a sweet enough and nourishing soup to satisfy the probiotic need before any meal.
Regarding the sickness coming from being too cold, my feeling is that our body has an internal heating mechanism that is interfered with when we get too cold.
Many years ago (1974-5) Satyam Smith, my boss at the East-West Journal used to run about 2 miles down from Farnesworth Street to the L street Bathhouse in Southie (South Boston) (at lunchtime instead of eating lunch) where he would enter a steam room and stay no more than 10 minutes before jumping out into the Atlantic Ocean in subfreezing winter and have a nice swim.
One might think that jumping into the ocean in the subfreezing winter would chill one to their very core but just the opposite happens when one steams or saunas before hand as the pores close up around the heated body when it makes contact with the freezing water and one can bear a good dose of cold water for quite some time, afterwards.
This window washer likes to take a hot shower followed by a freezing cold one before drying off, getting dressed (in layers) to work outside in subfreezing weather.
Keep your core warm be it by bathing or eating long warming warm foods!
Thank you, very much.
Bruce Paine