About the author ey said: Inspired by feelings of gratitude to his home ground, Rajko Latinovic ventures into sincere knowledge sharing on reasons of long and idyllic life of his ancestors, emphasizing how their simple everyday habits and necessities, and also the way of nutrition, signi cantly contributed to their healthy and long life. The book THE LIFE AND FOOD OF MY ANCESTORS is an attempt of synthesis of simple and understandable discourse on the one hand and scienti c con rmations of statements on the other. Working professionally in the eld of nutritionism as a doctor of veterinary medicine, the author has expanded his knowledge and observations to human nutrition, o ering, bravely, simple and logical comparisons, Today morale is in decline, because market adding originality and uniqueness to the text. His vast experience obtained in prestigious companies, institutions and on study A wonderful book, which is a written memory of our tradition and terror has created a religion of money. visits to many developed countries the author has applied in his professional life as a customs, not only in terms of nutrition. Rajko Latinovic Emir Kusturica, moviemaker founder, manager and technologist of the rst company in Bosnia and Herzegovina With a ection and patience, the author tells the story, mixing the past producing vitamin and mineral supplements to animal feed. Believing that health of and the present (not accidentally at all), but, while reading, you realize he " animals, as an important source of food for humans, has decisive in uence on human is skillfully leading you to self-assessment and useful contemplation. health, the author, bravely and with simpli ed arguments, states the advantages of After reading the book, everyone will have their own conclusions, but all will surely feel better and ful lled, because this book exudes positive natural nutrition over commercial and industrial o er of “fast” food, whose value is Whoever is the father of disease, bad nutrition is its mother. often dubious. The author uses his biomedical knowledge in brave statements and energy, which the author draws from his and our ancestors. recommendations of “what is good and what is bad” for human nutrition. Therefore, I am happy to recommend this book to everyone, especially Chinese proverb After his rst book “Petrovac basa and sirac”, as a desire to continue the to young people from the author’s home region. They should read it, promotion of traditional ways of food preparation and nutrition habits from his proud of their ancestors, striving to be worthy of their legacy. birthplace, Rajko Latinovic o ers “The life and food of my ancestors”. " Rajko Latinovic was born on May 19th, 1948, in the village of Kolunic, near Rajko Latinovic Bosanski Petrovac, where he also completed primary school and gymnasium. He Prim. Dr med. Gordana Grubor How did man come to be, I do not know. completed studies of veterinary medicine at the University of Sarajevo in 1973, INTERNIST – ENDOCRINOLOGIST But, I do believe that humankind itself will cause where he also obtained the degree of a doctor of veterinary medicine in 1987. its disappearance from the face of the Earth. I accepted the o er to provide a brief introduction about the author and the The author book with special pleasure. " e life and food ancestors of my Dr. Rodoljub Trkulja e life and food of my ancestors Rajko Latinovic About the author ey said: Inspired by feelings of gratitude to his home ground, Rajko Latinovic ventures into sincere knowledge sharing on reasons of long and idyllic life of his ancestors, emphasizing how their simple everyday habits and necessities, and also the way of nutrition, signi cantly contributed to their healthy and long life. The book THE LIFE AND FOOD OF MY ANCESTORS is an attempt of synthesis of simple and understandable discourse on the one hand and scienti c con rmations of statements on the other. Working professionally in the eld of nutritionism as a doctor of veterinary medicine, the author has expanded his knowledge and observations to human nutrition, o ering, bravely, simple and logical comparisons, Today morale is in decline, because market adding originality and uniqueness to the text. His vast experience obtained in prestigious companies, institutions and on study A wonderful book, which is a written memory of our tradition and terror has created a religion of money. visits to many developed countries the author has applied in his professional life as a customs, not only in terms of nutrition. Rajko Latinovic Emir Kusturica, moviemaker founder, manager and technologist of the rst company in Bosnia and Herzegovina With a ection and patience, the author tells the story, mixing the past producing vitamin and mineral supplements to animal feed. Believing that health of and the present (not accidentally at all), but, while reading, you realize he " animals, as an important source of food for humans, has decisive in uence on human is skillfully leading you to self-assessment and useful contemplation. health, the author, bravely and with simpli ed arguments, states the advantages of After reading the book, everyone will have their own conclusions, but all will surely feel better and ful lled, because this book exudes positive natural nutrition over commercial and industrial o er of “fast” food, whose value is Whoever is the father of disease, bad nutrition is its mother. often dubious. The author uses his biomedical knowledge in brave statements and energy, which the author draws from his and our ancestors. recommendations of “what is good and what is bad” for human nutrition. Therefore, I am happy to recommend this book to everyone, especially Chinese proverb After his rst book “Petrovac basa and sirac”, as a desire to continue the to young people from the author’s home region. They should read it, promotion of traditional ways of food preparation and nutrition habits from his proud of their ancestors, striving to be worthy of their legacy. birthplace, Rajko Latinovic o ers “The life and food of my ancestors”. " Rajko Latinovic was born on May 19th, 1948, in the village of Kolunic, near Rajko Latinovic Bosanski Petrovac, where he also completed primary school and gymnasium. He Prim. Dr med. Gordana Grubor How did man come to be, I do not know. completed studies of veterinary medicine at the University of Sarajevo in 1973, INTERNIST – ENDOCRINOLOGIST But, I do believe that humankind itself will cause where he also obtained the degree of a doctor of veterinary medicine in 1987. its disappearance from the face of the Earth. I accepted the o er to provide a brief introduction about the author and the The author book with special pleasure. " e life and food ancestors of my Dr. Rodoljub Trkulja e life and food of my ancestors Rajko Latinovic Dr Rajko Latinovic THE LIFE AND FOOD OF MY ANCESTORS Dr Rajko Latinovic THE LIFE AND FOOD OF MY ANCESTORS Editor: Nenad Novakovic Review: Prim. Dr. Gordana Grubor INTERNIST-ENDOCRINOLOGIST Prim. dr Milenko Krneta INTERNIST-CARDIOLOGIST Proofreading - Serbian version: Igor Simanovic English translation: Nikola Galic Front-page: Rada Latinovic Srdjan Ivankovic Photography: Nikolina Toljaga Copyright © 2016. Dr Rajko Latinovic THE LIFE AND FOOD OF MY ANCESTORS THE SECOND UNALTERED EDITION Banja Luka, 2016. Content 1. INTRODUCTION 10 2. WHERE AND HOW THEY LIVED 14 3. WHO WILL FIND THE COIN IN THE CHRISTMAS BREAD 24 4. FOOD AS NECESSITY AND PLEASURE 34 Dessert 39 5. WITH NATURE TO HEALTH 44 Natural medicines 55 Common nettle 59 Juniper 61 Hawthorn 61 Plums and rakia 62 Raspberry 65 6. FIVE BASIC BODILY FUNCTIONS 66 7. MENU FROM 1895 72 8. BIORHYTHM AND ITS INFLUENCE ON THE BODY 76 9. CONTEMPORARY MEDICINE AND NUTRITIONISM 80 10. EXPERT DECEIT OR WHO IS LYING TO WHOM 84 Stress 90 11. VAMPIRES IN OUR BODY 92 Cholesterol 93 Homocysteine 98 EPG 100 What are the E-numbers? 103 12. GMO – man’s salvation or destruction107 13. OUR DAILY BREAD 116 Millet 122 Barley 123 Oat 125 Corn 127 Rye 129 Buckwheat 130 What to eat 132 14. WHAT HAS THE GARDEN YIELDED 134 Potato 135 Beans 139 Garlic 140 Red onion 144 Wild garlic 146 15. TO THE BARN FOR MILK, TO THE STORY FOR MARGARINE 148 Sour milk 151 Fresh sour milk - zamuza 154 Whey 155 Basa cheese 156 Deceit without lie – margarine 160 16. MEAT, MEAT, AS IF WE’VE FORGOTTEN ABOUT IT 164 Eggs 169 17. FAST FOOD 170 18. MENU OF A NUN 176 19. COMBINING FOODS 178 20. FOOD INTOLERANCE 182 21. INFLUENCE OF FOOD ON HEALTH 188 22. SOME RECOMMENDATIONS IN THE END 192 23. APPENDIX 196 24. REFERENCES 220 Dedication Latinovic Jovo - Vovo (1901 – 2011) Latinovic Smilja neighbor Cup Mara (1909 – 2009) (1895 – 1995) my mother my wife’s grandmother The need for writing this book came from my love and respect for these persons and a wish to warn today’s generations about their bad eating habits. Preface I will be grateful if you say I have not discovered anything with this book. What has once existed and still exists cannot be rediscovered. With this book I stand for preserving highly valuable forgotten and not forgotten foods and dishes that should be used as defense against the aggressive onrush of harm- ful foods and eating habits from the West. If we could return to traditional nutrition, hon- oring the principles of organic production, we might just save humankind. If, while reading this book, you recognize my anger towards contemporary medi- cine – you’re right. Today’s medicine is losing grounds in the fight against mean diseas- es. Common people have the right to be afraid after learning that by 2020 1 in 2 indi- viduals will suffer from some kind of cancer, according to predictions by world experts.