Cultured Food for Life: How to Make and Serve Delicious Probiotic Foods for Better Health and Wellness
Donna Schwenk
Language: English
Pages: 256
ISBN: 1401942822
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
helping one another, and that makes it easier on the journey. Making Kefir Sodas Kefir sodas can be created in three different ways using three different cultures: kefir whey, water kefir crystals, or kefir culture starter powder (see Resources). My preference for making kefir sodas is to use the kefir powder because I can reserve a portion of the final product to start a new batch of soda that will ferment faster, thus being available more quickly for my enjoyment. Kefir Whey Method: Use ½ cup
milk kefir grains in the refrigerator for a few months. Are they still good? Probably not. Kefir grains eat the milk sugars (lactose) out of the milk to live and to make their bacteria. This is why the milk gets more sour. When the grains run out of food, they begin to die. They’re living organisms and need food. Treat them like a pet and make sure you feed them. I stored my milk kefir grains in the fridge for a week. Is the milk that the grains were stored in okay to drink? The milk that the
started looking into why, I found some exciting answers—and those answers lie in the gut of the human body with some nonhuman organisms. The number of bacteria in the body is greater than the number of its cells. There are hundreds of trillions of bacteria in each of us—ranging in character from good friends to mortal 15 enemies. Yet we seem to ignore all forms of bacteria until the bad outnumber the good, and we begin to feel the symptoms of disease. But by working to restore a healthy
many of the distressing side effects of your allergies. In response to an allergic reaction, your adrenal glands release hormones that bolster your immune system so it can deal with the allergen. To create these hormones, the adrenals need large amounts of vitamins B and C. This hurts you in two ways: it uses up these essential vitamins so they aren’t available for other physiological functions, and it uses them up so the adrenals can’t do their work. If your adrenals are too fatigued, you will
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