Christopher said:

Shroomsy is not impressed!

Mycophobia - An abnormal, persistent fear of mushrooms

DIG THIS:

“About 600 million years ago, the branch of fungi leading to animals evolved to capture nutrients by surrounding their food with cellular sacs — essentially primitive stomachs. As these organisms evolved, they developed outer layers of cells — skins, basically — to prevent moisture loss and as a barrier against infection. Their stomachs were confined within the skin. These were the earliest animals.

“I have long proposed that mycelia are the earth’s ‘natural Internet.’ … recently scientists in Great Britain have published papers about the ‘architecture’ of a mycelium — how it’s organized. They focused on the nodes of crossing, which are the branchings that allow the mycelium, when there is a breakage or an infection, to choose an alternate route and regrow. There’s no one specific point on the network that can shut the whole operation down. These nodes of crossing, those scientists found, conform to the same mathematical optimization curves that computer scientists have developed to optimize the Internet. Or, rather, I should say that the Internet conforms to the same optimization curves as the mycelium, since the mycelium came first.” - Paul Stamets

ZombieKitten said:

it's a theory developed by a Dr. Young in Utah, that the root of all disease comes from fungus and yeast in the blood. He had a process of looking at blood samples under a microscope. She did that for me and you could see large growths of it between the blood cells. The diet called for avoidance of all mushrooms and anything with yeast. This also included a complete elimination of corn and peanuts, as they are known to carry fungus. Then eliminating sugar, because that's what the particles feed off of to live.

heartbeatocean said:

I have good news for you. That's complete bullshit. I don't know what she showed you under the microscope, but that wasn't it. We have a very thorough understanding of blood components, and fungus isn't one of them. Plus, stuff doesn't just randomly migrate, alive, from your digestive tract to your bloodstream. It has to either be an extremely tiny molecule (smaller than yeast, which is the smallest fungus), or have a specific transport mechanism. Not that it's impossible to have a fungal infection in the blood, but it's rare, and it doesn't happen by eating mushrooms.

Also, if you didn't have sugar in your blood, you would die. Cells need glucose to survive. If you don't eat sugar in one form or another, your body will make it and put it in your blood anyway.

What your friend taught you is nutty and anybody with a rudimentary understanding of physiology should have been able to tell her that.

Mushrooms are actually good for immunity. Some of them can help fight cancer. They're pretty amazing.
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PANDURITO said:

That's fucking genius.

veronikka said:

Yes...

http://www.youtube.com/wa...sc-kUysYmg

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tackam said:

whateva, smartypants You need to write a letter to this guy:

http://www.innerlightinc....ightonline

If they're good enough for Mario, they're good enough for you.

Mushrooms are good in small amounts, but you don't really want to eat.that stuff on a daily basis for a very long time. Especially during the autumn people will usually pick up huge amounts of them in the forests and just keep on eating the same stuff for weeks, which is not the best of ideas.

Can't go wrong with a pie:


(btw, categorizing mushrooms as "neither plants or animals" is just pretty typical pseudo-scientific nonsense that's commonly taught to kids at schools - they don't fit within the strict criteria of how plants breed and nourish themselves, but categories and classification efforts themselves shouldn't overrule how people in general relate to phenomenons)

novabrkr said:

Why not?
That's how men have survived throughot History.
What's not natural is eating out of season food as we do now.

Of course, it's easier to say so when you live in a mediterranean country

I love mushrooms!

PANDURITO said:

Because the modern man is pampered beyond redemption. Varying your diet in general is pretty good for you though, and mushrooms just in general aren't the type of thing I could see myself eating on a daily basis. More of a season food , yes - pizza toppings and such things are of course

White bread, some butter, sliced champignon (not from a can) and ground pepper is something I eat on a more regular basis though. That's pretty good.

MoniGram said:

Hear, hear!

novabrkr said:

cooked or raw?

ZombieKitten said:

Raw!

novabrkr said:

novabrkr said:

i love mushrooms

I just don't like the way morels look. But I like basic white mushrooms on pizza and in pasta or salads. I was just fronting.

Mushroom-haters, unite!

Imago said:

to mushrooms. 'cause, what else would the little wee folk use for umbrellas when it rains?

XxAxX said:

good luck with that!

I vote yes only for mushrooms on pizza AND in my pasta sauce!