Ben-Erik van Wyk
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 Cereals are best eaten as whole, unprocessed grains - cooked like rice or minimally processed as gruels or porridges. whole grains generally contain 75% starch, about 10-15% protein and 2% fat, together with fibre, vitamins (especially B vitamins) and tocopherols (vitamin E) in the germ. Unfortunately, refined cereal products such as flour have not only the fibre-rich bran removed but also the germ (to avoid spoilage). This may lead to dietary problems such as obesity and gastrointestinal disturbances. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 If you want to be healthy, you have to give up the standard foods available in America, such as processed and manufactured foods, and replace them with natural whole foods such as nuts and whole grains, fruits and vegetables, and then supplement your diet with nutritional supplements and superfoods. If you do that, you're going to have greatly enhanced cardiovascular health, and you're going to have normal cholesterol levels. It's basic cause and effect. This follows the laws of biochemistry: if you eat the right foods, you can't help but to have healthy cholesterol levels. |
Mike Adams
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 Much of the chromium in whole grains and sugarcane is lost in making refined flour (40 percent loss) and white sugar (93 percent loss). In addition, there is some evidence that refined flour and sugar deplete even more chromium from the body.
Haas goes on to describe the subsequent "enrichment" of milled grains as required by federal law in order to prevent diseases due to nutritional deficiencies:
Refining grains and flours creates a number of problems. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 We should get avocados, high fiber products, and whole grains. These are the things we should consume if we wish to be healthy.
And to really get your nutrition and be the healthiest you can be, you should eat superfoods. High density, high nutrition supplements based on whole foods or whole food powders. These are products based on spirulina, chlorella, blueberry powder, spinach powder, or kale powder. Broccoli sprouts are fantastic, and they provide high-density nutrition. These are the kinds of things that people should consume if they wish to be healthy. |
Mike Adams
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| Instant rice (high glycemic index) or rice mixes (MSG)
Don't be misled into thinking that instant rice products qualify as whole grains. Instant rice is metabolized a lot like white flour: it's high on the glycemic index and results in insulin spikes. As a general rule, the faster the rice cooks, the higher the glycemic index.
Also, beware of rice mixes that contain any sort of flavoring. Most of these products also contain MSG or yeast extract.
Instant potatoes (high glycemix index)
As with instant rice, instant potatoes are also very high on the glycemic index. |
| For example, one well known breakfast cereal manufacturer in the United States announced in late 2004 that it would switch to whole grains for its entire cereal line.
So when you look at the big picture here, you can't blame the food manufacturing companies for creating products that consumers demand. It's a consumer-driven marketplace, after all, and the only way to alter the manufacturing practices of these companies is to educate people and shift demand. |
| The major one is the loss of nutrients that occurs from processing them, particularly the loss of most of the B vitamins, vitamin E, and the many minerals that are found naturally in whole grains. In the United States, by law, thiamine, riboflavin, niacin, and iron must be added back into the grain products, making the 'enriched' breads, pastas, cereals, and so on. But other important nutrients are lost and not replaced. These include pyridoxine (B6), pantothenic acid, chromium, zinc, manganese, folic acid, and vitamin E plus other trace minerals. And those are all essential to human health. |
| Phytosterols in whole grains, legumes, and soy quite literally compete with the estrogens that promote cancer; while they don't destroy these cancer-causing agents, they do deflect them from their path. Flavonoids in just about all fruits and vegetables and in wine block carcinogens' access to cells and suppress malignant changes in cells.
- Stephanie Beling, M.D., Power Foods
As you can see, many people view the phytochemicals in plants as nothing more than a natural source for drugs. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Well, they're going to eat whole grains; slow-burning complex carbohydrates. Maybe it's this Ezekiel cereal, or maybe it's the whole grain Total cereal. If it were me, I'd eat this Ezekiel cereal sweetened with stevia, because stevia is not going to have a high glycemic index load and it's not going to spike your blood sugar, whereas the sugar in this Total cereal will have more of a glycemic load on your body. So, I would prefer an unsweetened cereal that I sweeten myself with stevia, which is an herbal sweetener. |
James F. Balch, M.D. and Mark Stengler, N.D.
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 Heartburn that's worse when bending over or lying down
Belching
Pains and muscle spasms in the chest
Acid reflux
ROOT CAUSES
Poor diet
Food allergies
Weakness of stomach muscles
Pregnancy
Trauma to the stomach area
Stress
Inherited tendency
TREATMENT Diet
Recommended Food
Eat basic, unrefined foods that have not been stripped of their natural fiber. whole grains, raw vegetables, and raw nuts and seeds are all good choices. Avoid overeating by planning several light meals throughout the day. |
Ben-Erik van Wyk
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| Cereals (especially whole grains) are a good source of preformed niacin. The RDA is 18 mg.
Pantothenic acid
This vitamin occurs in a wide range of foods so that deficiencies are very rare. The RDA is 6 mg.
Nicotinic acid Nicotinamide Pantothenic acid
Chemical structures of niacin (nicotinic acid, nicotinamide) and pantothenic acid
Special biologically active compounds
In addition to vitamins, numerous other components (phytochemicals) in the diet are known to have positive health effects. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 It means turning to whole food sources such as whole grains, beans and legumes, nuts, seeds, fresh vegetables, fresh fruits and superfoods. When you choose these as your food sources, you are fortifying your body with the vitamins, minerals, healthy oils, fiber and other nutrients it needs to boost its immune system function and fight off the flu.
To see articles and recommendations on superfoods, visit: http://www.WebSeed.com/Superfoods.html.
Virtually every food that is popular in American culture is immunosuppressive, by the way. |
by Michael Murray, N.D. and Joseph Pizzorno, N.D.
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| The diet should focus on complex carbohydrates, such as legumes, whole grains, and vegetables, rather than on simple sugars.
High-fat and high-protein foods are usually foods that are high in purines. High-fat animal foods also promote inflammation and should be avoided, regardless of purine content. High-protein foods that are not high in purines should be eaten only in small amounts to avoid taxing the kidneys, which are burdened with excreting excess uric acid. It is also important to eat an alkaline diet; see Appendix B for more information. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 By working with a team of top nutritionists, he has already improved his diet by eliminating foods and beverages that promote diabetes (like sodas, sugary cookies and white bread) while focusing on eating the foods that prevent diabetes and regulate healthy blood sugar metabolism: fresh produce, raw nuts, whole grains, healthy plant-based fats and targeted nutritional supplements that boost insulin sensitivity. (See part one of this story.)
This week, Santa is focusing on boosting his exercise to accelerate his progress. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 They can allow you to grind up whole grains, make flour out of healthy seeds (like flaxseed or chia) and even make your own raw almond milk out of soaked almonds and water. I use my Vita-Mix daily (usually several times a day) and couldn't imagine being healthy without it.
I even wrote a recipe book based on the Vita-Mix called Superfood Smoothies (click here to see it). It teaches you some of my favorite recipes for making dairy-free, sugar-free, superfood-enriched smoothies using a Vita-Mix. |
| It's perfect for all your daily blending, from smoothies to grinding whole grains into flour. (You can use it to grind up chia seeds, for example, and use the chia flour in your recipes.)
However, if you are mainly grinding very thick nut cheeses (such as pine nut cheese, one of my favorite recipes), and you want the cheese to be as thick as possible, you'll need as much blender power as possible, and the K-Tec blender is certainly a good choice. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Get your whole grains by the pound. You could buy raw fruits and vegetables that don't require fancy packaging. For soaps, you could be buying Dr. Bronner's soaps, which come in economy-sized bottles. Those are the types of products you buy when you genuinely care about the planet.
Urine trouble!
Of course, if you care about the planet, you also shouldn't be taking prescription drugs and urinating them back into the water supply. How is that for polluting the planet? Don't you realize that everything you put in your mouth ends up getting flushed down the toilet? |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Not knowing what my health problems were based on, I learned a lot about nutrition, and I knew whole grains were good. I knew quinoa was particularly good because it's high in protein and fiber. It's hard, especially if you're eating a vegetarian diet -- which I'm not, but a lot of people do -- to get the balance of protein. So I liked that. I liked how it tasted. So that was the basis.
Mike: What if people can't find it locally? How can they order it online?
Waldner: They can go to MarysGoneCrackers.com and order it online or call our office, and we'll ship them out.
Mike: Wonderful. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 You can find them in whole grains, nuts, seeds and a variety of different plants. Why would they want to ban these ingredients and make it a crime to sell these to people?
Well, think about it folks. These ingredients prevent chronic disease better than prescription drugs, without the side effects, and without the profitability of prescription drugs. If people really knew just how much they could prevent chronic disease with these plant extracts, medicinal herbs, vitamins, minerals, and supplements, the pharmaceutical industry would collapse overnight. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 This is a very encouraging number because when people eat more whole grains, they have better nutrition. They get more B vitamins and more minerals like calcium, magnesium and zinc... they also get more fiber and healthy oils. These are all nutrients attainable from the whole grain, but that are hardly present at all in refined grain. That's why I'm very happy to see this number at 40.5 percent.
Giving up unhealthy foods and beverages
Now here's a number that's astonishing: Forty-three point one percent reported quitting their consumption of soft drinks. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 When you refine sugar beets or whole grains in order to make refined white sugar or white flour, you remove as much as 98% of the nutrition from those natural foods, leaving only a white, super sweet, highly concentrated refined sugar, and that's what ultimately gets fed to human beings. The waste product from this is a thick, brown, syrupy liquid -- that's molasses. Molasses contains most of the nutrition of the original food, including the vitamins, minerals, and various compounds such as uridine. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 We even see cereal companies switching to whole grains now, instead of processed grains. Things are changing out there. People are questioning the policy of water fluoridation. People are questioning the sanity of mass vaccinations. People are questioning the safety of mercury fillings, which are (shockingly) still used by dentists today. Finally, people are waking up to the reality of natural health.
All made possible by Free Speech on the Internet
The internet is making all of this possible, and its freedom of speech that provides the environment in which all of this can take place. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 And I see a very strong movement now toward people saying, "Let's choose wisely in our carbohydrates," which almost always means whole grains. I think that falls very nicely into quinoa.
Leventry: I think you're going to see some interesting things coming from the glycemic index research of foods. There's work that's been done in Australia by some very, very good professionals that are bringing out some diets or ways of eating that maintain your blood sugar level at a more level pace so you don't get spikes in being hungry. I think that will help a lot. And that's going to be big. |
| Plus, most whole grains take a long time to cook, and then there's usually some processing that you have to do, but quinoa is a little sesame seed-looking grain that you cook in 15 minutes and it's ready to go. You can flavor it and use it with sweets, or you can flavor it for savory dishes. You can put in soy sauce, other flavorings and vegetables of all sorts. You can put meat in it and chicken and things like that. It really has a lot of various uses. We use it like rice and cook it like rice. In fact, I cook it in a rice cooker. |
| Mike: Do you offer your grain in various physical formats such as flakes and whole grains?
Leventry: Yes, we do. It's kind of interesting. Here are the quinoa flakes that are produced from Bolivia -- Bolivian quinoa. You can see the difference between the whole grain and the higher fiber and then the polished, lighter color white grain.
Mike: I see that the whole grain is darker, more like a whole wheat bread, versus a white bread.
Leventry: Right. It's a good analogy. |
| They're seeing the difference in carbohydrates and that there are better foods that deliver carbohydrates in a better way. The whole grains are more important to eat than the refined grains. I've seen that coming, plus the fact that food manufacturers are looking for various ways to make more healthy food products with whole ingredients rather than using chemicals to give you the nutrients. As a dietician, I see them using whole foods put together in a way that they can deliver the same nutritional benefit, with the phytochemicals and all the antioxidants that come with them, too. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 You have to follow a pristine diet, avoid ingredients that cause disease and take in fresh foods, including vegetables, fruits, nuts, seeds, grains and whole grains. Whenever possible, eat these foods raw. If you want truly exceptional-looking skin on the outside, then combine a healthy diet with Lluvia. That's my take on this product line.
Personally, I won't be using it because I don't have the patience to apply skin care products every day. (I keep my hair short, for example, because I can't stand taking the time to dry long hair. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Feed children healthy oils, live foods, whole grains and superfoods, and you automatically create energetic, curious, fast-learning children who need no drugs. Give children some sunshine, play time and some time with nature, and you get balanced, healthy children. It's no secret, it's just common sense.
But psychiatry has no common sense, and no one in the industry dares mention that most so-called mental disorders are really just caused by nutritional imbalances. Because to admit to the truth about the mental health of children would be to render their careers irrelevant. |
James F. Balch, M.D. and Mark Stengler, N.D.
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| Eat plenty of fiber to keep toxins moving through your digestive tract and to prevent them from taking up residence in your body. whole grains, oats, and raw or lightly cooked vegetables are good sources of fiber that are also nutritionally dense.
If you're older, your digestive system may not be able to absorb nutrients as well as it used to. Fresh fruit and vegetable juices are easily absorbable and packed with the vitamins you need so have several glasses daily.
Fish is medicine for the brain.
The Archives of Neurology published a study of 815 participants, ages 64 to 94 years. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| They are now made with whole grains. They are not my number one choice for cereal, but they are a great improvement over everything else on the popular market. So if you want to get your kids into a healthier lifestyle, improve their nervous system function and even, I believe, help prevent any diagnosis of ADHD, behavioral disorders or learning disorders, then you need to start with nutrition. These whole-grain cereals from General Mills are a good part of that outstanding nutrition. |
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