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A new study has discovered that enriching white flour with folic acid
appears to be responsible for reducing not only birth defects, but
strokes, too. There's a lot to cover here, so prepare for some
interesting reading. First there's the fact that white flour is a
metabolic disruptor, meaning that it promotes chronic disease when
consumed by humans. That's because wheat berries are stripped of
practically all their nutrition (fiber, healthy oils, vitamins and
minerals) during processing, resulting in a nutritionally depleted (but
high-calorie) substance used in cereals, crackers, cookies, pasta, and
other foods. Years ago, it was discovered that consuming this white
flour caused birth defects and other nutritional deficiency diseases
such as beriberi or rickets, so the FDA mandated that all white flour be
"enriched" with a tiny amount of folic acid and other B vitamins in
order to prevent these more obvious and horrifying disorders. But the
FDA never mandated that the rest of the nutrition be put back into the
white flour, leading to the unfortunate reality that today's white flour
products are highly deficient in important minerals like magnesium and
zinc. These minerals deficiencies are also strongly correlated with
various diseases, yet those diseases are not so visible and horrifying
(like birth defects), so there's no outcry to fortify white flour with a
broader spectrum of minerals. Now here's the interesting part: when
folic acid was added to white flour, rates of heart attacks, strokes and
birth defects suddenly dropped. This is all from adding a very small
amount of folic acid to the food supply, and the research suggests that
there are now 48,000 fewer deaths each year from these disease due to
the folic acid supplementation. If folic acid is so good for people,
why doesn't the FDA require more folic acid to be added? Further, why
doesn't the FDA require magnesium and zinc be added back to the white
flour? The combination of folic acid, magnesium and zinc would have a
far-reaching, positive impact on the health of U.S. citizens. The
answer, of course, is well known to regular readers of this site: if the
FDA made the food supply any healthier, people would need fewer
prescription drugs and drug company profits would suffer. In other
words, keeping people sick is good for the drug business. Skeptical? It
is well established that one of the FDA's primary missions is to protect
drug company profits (just look at their policy on drugs from Canada,
for one thing), and this isn't surprising since so many FDA employees
are ex-drug industry executives. When it comes to folic acid
supplementation, the FDA is merely covering its backside on the more
obvious and horrifying nutritional deficiencies. The local TV news
station showing a disfigured infant born with spina bifida is an ugly
sight... the kind of sight that gets people outraged. The FDA doesn't
want that, so they make sure the national food supply will, at minimum,
prevent those obvious birth defects. But other disease like cancer,
heart disease and diabetes are not so visible. You can't show "diabetes"
on the evening news, since a diabetic patient looks like everyone else.
It is well known that white flour promotes diabetes, yet the FDA does
nothing to mandate the enrichment of white flour with vitamins and
minerals that would help diabetic patients (chromium, for example, is a
trace mineral that helps regulate blood sugar and insulin sensitivity).
Frankly, if the FDA were really looking out for the health of the
public, they would outright ban white flour and require all flour
products to be made from the whole grain. The resulting health benefits
would be far-reaching and dramatic. There's one more thing about
this article that amazes me: De. Robert Eckel is chairman of the
American Heart Association's Council on Nutrition, Physical Activity and
Metabolism. Sounds important, huh? You'd think a person in this position
would be schooled on basic nutrition, right? Yet Dr. Eckel is quoted in
this story as saying, "There is no proof that [supplements] are
beneficial." Huh? He's saying that there's no proof nutritional
supplements do anything to enhance heart health. Where has this guy been
for the last fifteen years? The journals are flowing over with study
after study showing strong, positive health results from nutritional
supplementation. And it goes far beyond just folic acid, too: there's
flax oil supplements, mineral supplements, herbal supplements,
homeopathic medicine, and a long list of vitamins that have all been
strongly correlated with reduced rates of heart disease. That the lead
nutritional expert at the American Heart Association is unaware of these
studies is nothing short of astounding... but perhaps not that
surprising. The AHA, as you probably know, is hardly versed in
nutritional theory. It seems to operate in league with the FDA and AMA:
always discrediting nutritional supplements while hyping up the latest
prescription drug. The AHA is just another cog in the grand racket known
as organized medicine: a health scam of unprecedented influence that
primarily seeks to extract dollars from the national economy while
limiting patients' access to any form of nutritional or medical therapy
outside the control of Western medicine. Tell you what: if you want
good nutritional advice, don't listen to the AHA. They've missed the
mark time and time again, and for decades, the organization actually
advised heart patients to eat extremely low-fat, high-sugar diets! I
know older heart patients today who are still eating fewer than 10g of
fat each day while consuming unlimited quantities of refined, processed
carbohydrates -- and it's all fully supported by their doctors who
apparently stopped learning anything new about about health and
nutrition in the 1970's. Go figure...
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