I was reading this thread in the Healthy Food for Lazy People tribe about garlic and onions...then someones talking about fermented foods being Tamasic which is one of three ayurvedic food types...Tamasic being the type you should have the least of because it has a long term depressing effect...

This sounds crappy.

I mean understand fermented foods are "living foods" as much as they are "dying foods" But the microorganisms offer up their bodies and by-products as enzymes, organic acids and vitamins. This warrants eating them in my opinion. Plus the fact that fermenting preserves foods, stabilizing food supply during lean times or for homes without refrigeration.

For those on an ayurvedic diet...a diet of Sattvic foods is supposed be best. So, basically foods that still have their high life-force in them or something?

I just got a copy of Wild Fermentation for x-mas and I'm so into fermenting right now. It's depressing to read info that says ferments are depressing to the body (long term)

Here's the post I read about this in
healthylazy.tribe.net/thread/...faa3137c

and the website they pulled it from
www.sivananda.org/teachings...gunas.html