Ann N. Martin
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 Corn flour: This is the fine-size, hard flinty portion of ground corn containing little or none of the bran or germ. Corn bran: This is the outer coating of the corn kernel, with little or none of the starchy part of the germ. Corn gluten meal: This is the dried residue from corn after the removal of the larger part of the starch and germ, and the separation of the bran by the process employed in the wet milling manufacture of corn starch or syrup, or by enzymatic treatment of the endosperm. |
Bruce H. Lipton
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 My favorite example of scientific denial of the reality of mind-body interactions relates to an article that appeared in Science about nineteenth-century German physician, Robert Koch, who along with Pasteur founded the germ Theory. The germ Theory holds that bacteria and viruses are the cause of disease. That theory is widely accepted now, but in Koch's day it was more controversial. One of Koch's critics was so convinced that the germ Theory was wrong that he brazenly wolfed down a glass of water laced with vibrio cholerae, the bacteria Koch believed caused cholera. |
Lynne Mctaggart
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 If there was such a thing as a world mind, perhaps little flashes of inspiration in it could account for the most monstrous and magnificent moments in human history, or maybe negative consciousness was also like a germ that could infect people and take hold. Germany had been depressed in every sense after the First World War. Could this dispirited-ness have affected the Germans on a quantum level, making it easier for Hitler, that most intoxicating of speakers, to create a kind of negative collective, which fed on itself and condoned the grossest of evils? |
Ron Garner
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 Joel Robbins teaches that two conditions must be present in order for disease germs to enter into, or develop in, living tissue: first, something besides the germ must have previously weakened the tissue; and second, there must be acidic debris present in the tissue for the germs to live on. They cannot exist in a balanced acid-alkaline environment, neither can parasites. The conclusion is logical. If our bodies are relatively free of toxic wastes, serious disease bacteria cannot develop within us. |
Devra Davis
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 These health leaders pressed for restricting environmental agents believed to harm the German "germ plasm," moving to limit tobacco smoking and the use of white flour and sugar as well as aniline dyes and other industrial toxins. They also promoted organic agriculture and natural medicines. Every German citizen had a duty to engage in Gesundheit UberAlles—healthfulness over all—to ensure the well-being of the nation.
Despite their deranged application, a number of Nazi ideas about how to rid the world of cancer and build a healthier human had respectable scientific pedigrees. |
Ann N. Martin
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| Wheat germ meal: This consists chiefly of wheat germ together with some bran and middlings or shorts. Wheat middlings and shorts: These are also categorized as the fine particles of wheat germ, bran, flour, and offal from the "tail of the mill."
"Splitting" in Labeling
Corn and wheat are usually the first ingredients listed on both dry dog and cat food labels. However, some pet food companies list the product ingredients in such a way that the number one ingredient is a protein product. |
Bruce H. Lipton
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| My favorite example of scientific denial of the reality of mind-body interactions relates to an article that appeared in Science about nineteenth-century German physician, Robert Koch, who along with Pasteur founded the germ Theory. The germ Theory holds that bacteria and viruses are the cause of disease. That theory is widely accepted now, but in Koch's day it was more controversial. One of Koch's critics was so convinced that the germ Theory was wrong that he brazenly wolfed down a glass of water laced with vibrio cholerae, the bacteria Koch believed caused cholera. |
Ron Garner
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| But when we do become ill, we tend to blame it on a germ or virus. The germ or virus would not have been able to get a foothold in us if the body had not been burdened with toxic and metabolic wastes, and if our immune system had been strong.
To illustrate this further, consider the environment of the mouth. At any given time, several disease-causing germs such as streptococcus, staphylococcus, tuberculosis, and pneumonia can be found in the average mouth. Why don't we have these diseases? |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 It's an era of medicine steeped in the paradigm of the germ theory, which believed every disease could be countered with an appropriate chemical. Thus, from the mid-1900s on, pharmaceutical companies sought out specific chemicals to counter diseases in the same way penicillin kills bacteria.
Yet they have taken this paradigm too far; they have tried to apply the germ theory to diseases not caused by germs. Cancer has no germs. Diabetes is not caused by a parasite or a microbe. Heart disease is not caused by bacteria or viruses. |
Michael Pollan
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 That's because while stone grinding removed the bran from the wheat kernel (and therefore the largest portion of the fiber), it couldn't remove the germ, or embryo, which contains volatile oils that are rich in nutrients. The stone wheels merely crushed the germ and released the oil. This had the effeet of tinting the flour yellowish gray (the yellow is carotene) and shortening its shelf life, because the oil, once exposed to the air, soon oxidized—turned rancid. That's what people could see and smell, and they didn't like it. |
| What their senses couldn't tell them, however, is that the germ contributed some of the most valuable nutrients to the flour, including much of its protein, folic acid, and other B vitamins; carotenes and other antioxidants; and omega-3 fatty acids, which are especially prone to rancidity.
The advent of rollers that made it possible to remove the germ and then grind the remaining endosperm (the big packet of starch and protein in a seed) exceptionally fine solved the problem of stability and color. |
Herbert Ross, DC with Keri Brenner, L.Ac.
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 DHM, authors of Menopause and Estrogen, suggest the following foods to help balance estrogens: raw fruits, fresh fruit and vegetable juices (especially green juices), leafy green vegetables, garlic, figs, dates, cabbage, avocados, grapes, apples, beets, spirulina, chlorella, seaweed, wheat germ, and wheat germ oil.34
Supplementing with essential fatty acids (EFAs) can be important for balancing your hormones. "Many women actually eat themselves into hormonal dysfunction," says clinical nutritionist Ann Louise Gittleman, who specializes in natural hormone therapy. |
Mark Hyman, M.D.
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 It's an ever more complex game of trying to be smarter than the germs, and the jury is still out on who will win in the end—the germs or us.
The germ theory also misses a key phenomenon, which is that the host, or what French professor Claude Bernard called the "biological terrain"—our being—was equally as important, if not more so, in determining who got sick and how the illness progressed. While Pasteur championed the attack on the germs, in 1865 Bernard professed that "the microbe is nothing, the terrain is everything. |
Bradley J. Willcox, M.D., D. Craig Willcox, Ph.D., Makoto Suzuki, M.D.
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 Removing the germ and bran led to longer-lasting but less nutritious white flour. Wheat germ is sold in both toasted and natural forms, and it is used to add nutrition to a variety of foods. Wheat germ oil, an extraction of the germ, is a strongly flavored and expensive health food supplement high in vitamin E. The wheat endosperm, which makes up the majority of the kernel, is full of starch, protein, niacin, and iron and is the primary source of many wheat flours. |
David W. Grotto, RD, LDN
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 Intakes of whole grains, bran, and germ and the risk of coronary heart disease in men. Am} Clin Nutr. 2004;80(6): 1492-1499.
Johnsen NF, Hausner H, Olsen A, Tetens I, Christensen J, Knudsen KE, Overvad K, Tjonneland A. Intake of whole grains and vegetables determines the plasma entero-lactone concentration of Danish women. J Nutr. 2004 Oct;134(10):2691-2697.
Mamiya T et al. Effects of pre-germinated brown rice on beta-amyloid protein-induced learning and memory deficits in mice. Biol Pharm Bull. 2004 Jul; 27(7):1041-1045.
Most MM, Tulley R, Morales S, Lefevre M. |
Jack Challem
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 At that time, grain millers began to separate the wheat germ (seed) from its surrounding endosperm (consisting mostly of starch). With this change, whole-grain brown bread gave way to refined white flour and white bread. The more nutritious germ was often fed to livestock because they thrived on it, while people preferred the starchy portion.
Around the same time, millers also switched from stone to metal grinding wheels, enabling them to produce a finer and more powdery flour, resulting in a more sugarlike starch. |
Richard Lucas
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 Allicin—Potent germ Killing Element in Garlic
Biological chemists have discovered that when garlic is cut or crushed, much sophisticated biochemistry takes place, resulting in a germ-killing element called allicin, which combats germs that can be destroyed by penicillin. As reported by Dr. John H. Bailey, the allicin in garlic attacks staphylococci, one of the germs that are found in boils.
It was also demonstrated that allicin can destroy germs which so far have proved to be immune to penicillin. |
David W. Grotto, RD, LDN
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| Whole grain brown rice contains all three layers of the kernel—the bran, germ, and endosperm—which provides superior nutrition value over white rice. Brown rice is rich in lignans, phytoestrogens, and phenolic compounds that are high in antioxidant activity. Whole grain brown rice contains important nutrients such as thiamine, niacin, phosphorus, potassium, iron, riboflavin, and five times the fiber of white rice. The germ provides natural vitamin E. The bran of rice contains the phytochemicals that may reduce cholesterol. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 In addition, treatment reduced radiation-induced damage to germ cells and loss in body weight.
Got that? The key concepts here are "significant enhancement in survival time" (the mice lived longer), and a reduction in radiation-induced damage to germ cells, meaning that the DNA in your sperm remains more intact. That's a good thing unless you really want to have mutant children someday or have an unnatural desire to watch your genitals shrivel and die (another side effect from radiation therapy).
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Michael Pollan
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| The stone wheels merely crushed the germ and released the oil. This had the effeet of tinting the flour yellowish gray (the yellow is carotene) and shortening its shelf life, because the oil, once exposed to the air, soon oxidized—turned rancid. That's what people could see and smell, and they didn't like it. What their senses couldn't tell them, however, is that the germ contributed some of the most valuable nutrients to the flour, including much of its protein, folic acid, and other B vitamins; carotenes and other antioxidants; and omega-3 fatty acids, which are especially prone to rancidity. |
Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.
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 In this way the starchy, carbohydrate-rich center, called the endosperm, is separated from both the dark, fibrous bran and the wheat embryo, called the wheat germ," writes Dr. Willett in his book Eat, Drink, and Be Healthy: The Harvard Medical School Guide to Healthy Eating.
"At each stage of milling, something is lost. Removing the wheat germ pulls out vitamins and unsaturated fats. Whacking away the branny outer layer removes fiber, magnesium, and more vitamins. |
Ann N. Martin
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| Corn bran: This is the outer coating of the corn kernel, with little or none of the starchy part of the germ. Corn gluten meal: This is the dried residue from corn after the removal of the larger part of the starch and germ, and the separation of the bran by the process employed in the wet milling manufacture of corn starch or syrup, or by enzymatic treatment of the endosperm.
Wheat: This ingredient is found in many pet foods, and again, AAFCO gives several terms for wheat products. |
Mark Sircus
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 Magnesium is a fairly soluble mineral, which is why boiling vegetables can result in significant losses; in cereals and grains, it tends to be concentrated in the germ and bran, which explains why white refined grains contain relatively little magnesium by comparison with their unrefined counterparts.
Whole-wheat bread, for example, has twice as much magnesium as white bread because the magnesium-rich germ and bran are removed when white flour is processed. |
Ron Garner
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| When we do become diseased, we think it is bad luck, or that some germ or virus zapped us. But the germ or virus would not have gained a foothold in the body if our immune system, with its specialized cells to resist disease-producing organisms, had remained strong. And, the body will be strong if we give it what it needs to be healthy, and if we keep it relatively free of toxic wastes.
The human body has a tremendous innate ability and corrective capability, but it has limits. |
Ann N. Martin
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| Corn gluten meal: This is the dried residue from corn after the removal of the larger part of the starch and germ, and the separation of the bran by the process employed in the wet milling manufacture of corn starch or syrup, or by enzymatic treatment of the endosperm.
Wheat: This ingredient is found in many pet foods, and again, AAFCO gives several terms for wheat products. Wheat flour: This consists principally of wheat flour together with fine particles of wheat bran, wheat germ, and the offal from the "tail of the mill. |
Antoinette Saville and Antony J. Haynes
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 In this example, the germ-warfare approach misses the point which Louis Pasteur, founder of modern-day antibiotics, regretted in his latter days when he said, 'C'est le terrain, pas le germ' which, translated means: It is the host (i.e., the environment or the body) and not the germ (bug, microbe, bacterium, virus) that is important.
In this way, those who believe that stress causes the symptoms have a point, because this can create imbalances within the 'host terrain' (i.e. your body) that permit or make it react inappropriately to foods. |
Russell L. Blaylock, M.D.
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 Unlike all other human cells, we know that germ cells (those that form sperm and ova) do not age. In 1986 Howard Cook and his co-workers discovered that germ cells have significantly longer telomeres than other cells. In addition to a lengthened telomere, germ cells contain an enzyme, telomerase, which continuously replaces the telomere fragment that is lost during cell division. No other cells possess this enzyme.
Despite this extraordinary finding, it does not appear that aging and death result solely from telomere loss. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 And the germ theory says that every disease is based on an organism or an invading element, whether it is a virus or bacteria, and if you just have the right chemical compound, then you can cure that infectious disease.
Of course, this was quite valid in the day of penicillin, and it's still valid today for basic, simple infections. But the germ theory does not apply to chronic, degenerative diseases such as cancer, osteoporosis, Alzheimer's disease, arthritis, diabetes, cardiovascular heart disease, Crohn's disease, clinical depression, inflammatory diseases, and so on. |
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