Green Tea Yesterday, Spirulina and Bee Pollen Today

[misswrite]

Without much conscious effort, I've changed my eating habits. I am a firm believer that you train your taste buds. The fastest way is to hold out as long as you can. When you're slightly starving, everything tastes a bit better. When I first moved to Japan and all I could find to eat had eyeballs, I very quickly developed a taste for eyeballs

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[nahele_101]

Kombucha is super duper easy to produce. I did it for a long time and came up with all sorts of different flavors. I even did a coffee one! Seriously, try it. I was buying it in stores and realized how expensive it is. You can grow your own with enough culture from two or three G.T Tonics bottles.

Yay for improving your health!

[misswrite]

So if you were making it yourself for so long, you must've believed in/noticed the benefits, and I'm curious what exactly they are. Everything I'm reading seems kind of wishy washy. I don't know. Aren't ugly fermenting things sometimes toxic?

[nahele_101]

I don't think its possible really to brew a toxix kombucha tea. I followed the instructions and it worked over and over again and tasted pretty damn good.

I noticed my digestive system seeming to work more efficiently and I felt more energized. It seemed to pick me up like coffee is supposed to but had no crash afterwards.

[misswrite]

I'm curious what benefits you have noticed. Drinking it to such an extent so consistently, you must have noticed some obvious benefits?? I have read of people making impressive claims. But the one thing that I read which most freaked me out (and this is from Wikipedia, so who knows?) is that when tested on rats, the rats livers swelled in size. !!! It is a fungus right, which can be poisonous?? I'm just a bit leery of ingesting something potentially harmful. (And it looks freaky!)

[frumiousb]

Good for you! Do you drink soda. Diet coke is my last big unhealthy point, and I've been weighing the benefit of giving it up vs. the stress of giving it up.

[misswrite]

Hehe. For some reason, I rarely crave carbonated bevs. When I do I go for a natural soda called Hansens. They make super SUPER delicious vanilla cherry flavored soda. I used to like Diet Coke, but lost my taste for it somewhere along the line years ago. :)

And I say keep a couple treats. Maybe just keep them around in moderation. My treat is definitely wine. And ice cream.