Store bought kefir is not kefir at all, it's a fake. If you're in SC, you can legally by raw milk that has been certified safe for human consumption by SCDHEC (SC has an excellent program for this), get kefir grains and make your own. Of course it's still an acquired taste, one which I have totally acquired. My first exposure to kefir was store bought also, and if that's all I'd ever had, I wouldn't be drinking it. Now I have to limit drinking it; I love the stuff.
Right now, my son-in-law, who'd always been told that he was dairy intolerant, is recovering from a chronic ear infection that the doctors couldn't cure, that CS didn't cure, by drinking real kefir and eating homegrown fertilized raw eggs. You're not dairy intolerant until your body has rejected raw milk (I'd better qualify that to say truly good raw milk) and even then, you can most likely drink kefir, because the kefir grains convert lactose to lactic acid, B vitamins and some kind of good sugar that I can't remember the name of right now. The statement that CS didn't cure it is not meant to disparage CS, which is a staple in this house (and I've bought generators for my married children). I think some of the failures of CS and many other therapies are attributable to the terrible nutritional quality of our US food supply that is grown for nothing but pretty and profit. Daddybob -----Original Message----- From: Pat [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, April 27, 2006 9:19 PM To: silver list Subject: CS>Kefir A few months ago I tried Lifeway Kefir. It was the only brand I've seen in any stores here in SC. I didn't like it much...sour and fizzy, but kept trying it. I eventually got to where I actually enjoy the peach or strawberry. My daughter tried some Kefir and said it was so bad she couldn't drink it and threw it away. I was surprised. Yesterday I bought a brand that was new to me at the new Whole Foods Market. I tasted it, it was horrible, even though it had a very nice peach scent. Tasted it again and again and hated it. I added diced peaches to it and still couldn't drink it. It was Helios brand. I told my daughter to never buy that brand and she said that was the brand she'd bought, that in Detroit that was the only brand she'd found. I don't know what gives it that nasty taste but I found it totally un-usable. Anyone who's tried Kefir and didn't like it, be sure to try Lifeway brand. Pat __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- The Silver List is a moderated forum for discussing Colloidal Silver. Instructions for unsubscribing are posted at: http://silverlist.org To post, address your message to: [email protected] Address Off-Topic messages to: [email protected] The Silver List and Off Topic List archives are currently down... List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]>
