Whole food diet

[Hafeez058]

A whole food diet includes unprocessed legumes to ensure that your body doesn't have a shortage of essential nutrition.

[Elisabeth3]

What do you mean by unprocessed? Uncooked? Some legumes are poisonous raw.

Maybe you could start by explaining what 'whole food' means. Just a tip (not criticism).

Then compare the whole food diet to other ones.

Thanks.

[andyswarbs in reply to Elisabeth3]

In my book dried legumes should be soaked & rinsed. I cooked some split chickpeas last night and I rinsed them even after cooking since there was a lot of froth.

The only legumes that I have ever considered poisonous are kidney beans and I cook these fast for 10 minutes at the beginning.

All this lectin nonsense is complete rubbish. No-one eats raw legumes: cook them and the lectins are gone. POOF! There is no scientific research AT ALL showing societies being damaged by lectin consumption, whereas there is a lot of scientific research showing legume consumption is associated with better long term health outcomes.

[Elisabeth3 in reply to andyswarbs]

I cannot agree less.

Thanks for your input.

I also cook the beans.