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Step 3Eat whole grains and unprocessed legumes (beans, peanut, lentils, etc):
Our bodies need grains. A big part of our diets should include grains and legumes.
Avoid eating white flour, white rice. They have been stripped of all the good stuff.
White flour doesnt give the body the nutrients it needs to be healthy, in the digestive track it turns to goo because a lot of the fiber has been stripped away.
Whole grain flours have, well&. the whole grain, thats redundant but it makes the point. Whole grains have the food value and fiber bodies need to stay healthy and working well.
Its hard to talk about nutrition without mentioning the intestines because the intestines are a big part of getting nutrients into the body. Ill be as delicate as possible while writing about intestines.
Whole grains help keep the intestines working well. Whole grain has fiber that clean the intestinal walls and keep people regular. Clean intestines extract more nutrients from food. Clean intestines help move food through better and eliminate everything better. With white flours things get gunked up in the intestines. White flour can get stuck to the lining and hinder the intestines ability to work well.
Why do we even have white flour? White flour is easy to work with and produces fluffy bread products. In its defense white flour makes baking with whole grains easier. Its difficult to make yeast breads with only whole grain flour. Bakers add white flour to the whole grain flour to get enough gluten to get a good dough. So, white flour has its purpose but shouldnt be eaten as the sole choice.
White rice was the cause of a beriberi outbreak in Asia many moons ago. Only the rich had contracted beriberi. The poor seemed immune to it. The poor couldnt afford processed white rice and were stuck eating brown rice, but it was the B vitamins in the brown rice that prevented them from getting beriberi. Eat whole grain brown rice and stay healthy.
Processed beans , lentils, peanuts and the like are found in cans and jars. The high heat needed to can food destroys nutrients. Can food can also contain large amounts of salt, sugar and preservatives.
Choose steel cut oats over rolled oats because steel cut oats are the whole oat grain. It takes longer to cook but its has more nutrients. A large batch of steel cut oats can be cooked at one time and frozen in single serving portions. This makes eating a healthy breakfast possible on busy mornings.
Eat whole food and be healthy.
Avoid eating white flour, white rice. They have been stripped of all the good stuff.
White flour doesnt give the body the nutrients it needs to be healthy, in the digestive track it turns to goo because a lot of the fiber has been stripped away.
Whole grain flours have, well&. the whole grain, thats redundant but it makes the point. Whole grains have the food value and fiber bodies need to stay healthy and working well.
Its hard to talk about nutrition without mentioning the intestines because the intestines are a big part of getting nutrients into the body. Ill be as delicate as possible while writing about intestines.
Whole grains help keep the intestines working well. Whole grain has fiber that clean the intestinal walls and keep people regular. Clean intestines extract more nutrients from food. Clean intestines help move food through better and eliminate everything better. With white flours things get gunked up in the intestines. White flour can get stuck to the lining and hinder the intestines ability to work well.
Why do we even have white flour? White flour is easy to work with and produces fluffy bread products. In its defense white flour makes baking with whole grains easier. Its difficult to make yeast breads with only whole grain flour. Bakers add white flour to the whole grain flour to get enough gluten to get a good dough. So, white flour has its purpose but shouldnt be eaten as the sole choice.
White rice was the cause of a beriberi outbreak in Asia many moons ago. Only the rich had contracted beriberi. The poor seemed immune to it. The poor couldnt afford processed white rice and were stuck eating brown rice, but it was the B vitamins in the brown rice that prevented them from getting beriberi. Eat whole grain brown rice and stay healthy.
Processed beans , lentils, peanuts and the like are found in cans and jars. The high heat needed to can food destroys nutrients. Can food can also contain large amounts of salt, sugar and preservatives.
Choose steel cut oats over rolled oats because steel cut oats are the whole oat grain. It takes longer to cook but its has more nutrients. A large batch of steel cut oats can be cooked at one time and frozen in single serving portions. This makes eating a healthy breakfast possible on busy mornings.
Eat whole food and be healthy.
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Add two things:
vegs have important role in mechanical functions of the digestion process; it bulks up the digestive bowl with fibers. That's especially important with intestinal digestion problems (excretions that are too hard or too liquid often get brought back to normal just by eating more vegs).
Second, there's a big problem with eating complete grain (= with its envelop) that's not grown organically, b/c most of the chemicals are stored in the envelop of the grain. But yes, white flour is really not good either.
Hence the importance of getting organized with even only a couple of neighbours to order organic food in bulks at cost price if there's no organic shop at decent prices around you.
The places to order from are easily found on the net, but try to source your orders as locally as possible.
Good luck.
Why?
We need macronutrients, vitamins, and minerals for survival. There is absolutely no reason that grains and legumes MUST be in our diets.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paleolithic#Diet_and_nutrition
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paleolithic_diet
We evolved on, and lived for thousands of years on, diets containing no grains or legumes.
While yes, whole grains are "better" than processed or bleached flours, breads and such, they are definitely not a vital part of our diets.