Most of us don't know how to prepare foods so that they are digestible, nutrient rich and full of beneficial bacteria. However, it's easy and fun to rediscover and implement traditional methods of food preparation. Below are some great resources.

• Soaking Foods
• Fermenting Foods
• Broths

Fermenting Foods

• Watch Sandor Katz, author of Wild Fermentation, make sauerkraut
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i77hU3zR-fQ
• Discover more about fermentation at Sandor's excellent
  website: wildfermentation.com
• Donna Gates is a guest on the Renegade Health Show
  with instructions on fermentation here:
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTy__5elYp4
• A great way to get started fermenting foods is to start with coconut water
  and coconut meat keifer. Here, Donna Gates provides complete instructions.
  Note: Dr. Swarthout now sells Body Ecology keifer and culture starter and other products!
  http://www.bodyecology.com/mcoconutkefir.php