Dr Ron Roberts
See book keywords and concepts |  Although refined white flour is normally used in bread, cakes, biscuits, pastries and so on, if these foods are a must for you then bake them with wholemeal flour.
Common salt (sodium chloride) attracts and retains fluid in the body. Excessive salt intake can also make you feel tired. Reduce the salt in your diet by putting garlic salt or vegetable salt on the table. Experiment with the many tasty salt alternatives now available or use a combination of spices and various herbs to add zest to your cooking. |
Andreas Moritz
See book keywords and concepts |  There may be plenty of calories in the highly refined white flour products but the body is not able use this form of "dead" energy. Our digestive system is naturally programmed to extract energy from live foods or complex staple foods, which contain plenty of Prana. The body regards such lifeless foods as meat, cornflakes or light-foods to be indigestible and tries to "dump" them as quickly as possible. All they do is to congest the intestines where they ferment and putrefy. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  The list of such ingredients that should be banned from the food supply -- but won't be -- include MSG, processed sodium, refined white sugar, refined white flour, aspartame, saccharin, hydrogenated oils, artificial colors, chemical preservatives, color fixer chemicals and homogenized dairy fats (which cause heart disease). By screaming "China!" to the U.S. press and pointing the finger at dangerous Chinese-made products, the Food and Drug Administration diverts scrutiny from its own lousy lack of meaningful food safety enforcement with U.S. manufacturers.
The silent treatment
U.S. |
Wendy Bazilian, DRPH, MA, RD, Steven Pratt, MD, Kathy Matthews
See book keywords and concepts |  You'll be delighted to find that these days there are excellent tasty alternatives to products containing refined white flour. If you bake, whole grain pastry or regular flour combined in the appropriate amounts with King Authur's unbleached flour are excellent alternatives. If it's the white color you're going for try "white" whole wheat flour. And the SuperFoods menus and recipes will suggest some delicious options when you're craving a baked treat.
Have you tossed some foods that might have ambushed you? Have you moved out of sight some foods that might be too tempting to avoid? | | Refined is good in people; bad in flour. refined white flour (enriched, bleached flour) is not just "lacking the fiber" as many people believe, but it has been stripped of nutrients—by some estimates a full 80 to 90 percent of all the micronutrients that were originally there! When refined, the fiber, antioxidants including vitamin E and selenium, as well as a slew of other key micronutrients like magnesium, zinc, potassium and the B vitamins are stripped right off. More than 50 percent of the thiamin, riboflavin, niacin, pantothenic acid, B6, folate, and vitamin E are lost. |
Dr Ron Roberts
See book keywords and concepts | | Add to this the increasing use of refined white flour rather than wholemeal, salt, sugar, tea and coffee, and the picture gets gloomier.
Food is being heavily refined, and preservatives and artificial colourings added. Nutrients are lost from the refined end products. On top of the poor quality of the foods we do eat, we have been consuming less fruit, vegetables and herbs, which are generally high in vitamins, minerals and trace elements.
There is evidence to suggest that dietary habits are moving from bad to worse. |
Ron Garner
See book keywords and concepts |  Processed and packaged foods such as sugar and refined white flour, and the products made from them, such as candy, soft drinks, desserts, breakfast cereals, and breads, are almost totally lacking in fatty acids, minerals, and enzymes. In addition, they form acids and contain toxic chemicals which are added as preservatives to prolong shelf life and enhance flavor.
When food lacks one or more of the six essential ingredients listed above, the body has to borrow resources from its own tissues to process it. | | For example, refined white flour contains only two or three nutrients, compared to more than fifty in whole-wheat flour. Whenever food is heated to temperatures in excess of H2°f (44°c), most of the natural enzymes in it are destroyed. Original, living, natural food becomes more or less unnatural dead food, lacking life force energy. Enzymes contained in raw food function as catalysts to assist with the digestive process and with other functions in our bodies. | | For example, refined white flour products like bread, cookies, and pasta are almost totally depleted of nutrients. They take more from the body than they give. When eaten, they quickly convert to sugar, causing the body to take nutrients from itself to complete the digestion process. Over time, the depletion and deficiency of minerals such as calcium, magnesium, potassium, and phosphorus result. This leads to disease conditions.
Most processed foods have had chemicals added to make them last longer without spoiling. An additive is, by definition, a food embalmer or preservative. | | Raw whole wheat contains approximately fifty main nutrients whereas refined white flour contains no more than two or three.
Too Much Protein
Our bodies use protein to make, repair, and replace tissue. The structural materials of cells are proteins reinforced by minerals. Contrary to popular opinion, the body does not use protein from its tissues for energy. In times of starvation, the body is able to utilize protein tissue for energy, but this is done as a last resort because it is very expensive in terms of the nutrients and energy required. |
Jack Challem
See book keywords and concepts |  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. Just a few years later, bleaching techniques were adopted to turn brown flour into white. The combination of refining and bleaching removed or destroyed much of the nutritional value of whole grains. |
Dr. Steven R. Gundry
See book keywords and concepts |  RDAs were established after the introduction of refined white flour led to the discovery of vitamin and mineral deficiency diseases. But vitamin deficiency and vitamin adequacy are very different, just as living out an average life span and thriving for 8o-plus years is not the same thing. My goal for you is not just a long life span, but also a long health span. |
Gary Null and Amy McDonald
See book keywords and concepts |  Plus I try to get people off refined sugar, refined white flour, refined pasta, and anything else that might stress the body."
Herbs also are beneficial in chronic fatigue. "To boost mental function, I use ginkgo biloba, probably the number-two herb after ginseng," Dr. Spreen says. "We'll give a trial of that to people who say they don't remember things the way they used to, and to children with learning disorders. We'll try the herb for about 6 weeks. If the person doesn't feel a noticeable difference in that time, it probably doesn't work for them. |
Herbert Ross, DC with Keri Brenner, L.Ac.
See book keywords and concepts |  During the cleansing period, it is preferable to completely stop eating sugar, all milk products, and all refined white flour products, such as pastas, breads, and baked goods. You should also reduce your intake of eggs, meat, chicken, most fish, nuts, seeds, and unsprouted beans and grains.
Fiber acts like a sponge, absorbing water as it goes through the stomach and the small intestine and arriving in the colon full of moisture. Diets low in fiber cause fecal material to become dry and hard to expel, whereas a diet high in fiber will greatly reduce transit time. |
Wendy Bazilian, DRPH, MA, RD, Steven Pratt, MD, Kathy Matthews
See book keywords and concepts | | However, you don't need all the refined white flour products that the population is still inclined to eat nor do you need as many servings as we've become accustomed to. In fact, as of 2000, Americans were consuming two to three more daily servings of grains than just a few short decades before! at lunch or dinner but not both. Which will it be? You choose. One meal with and one without. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  To die at any age under 50 requires a sustained poisoning effort: like consuming soft drinks, fried foods, red meat, refined white flour, added sugars, hydrogenated oils and so on. I wonder what ingredients are in a Big Mac these days? (I wouldn't know: haven't eaten at McDonald's since the 1990's when I weighed 220 pounds, was borderline diabetic, mentally depressed and suffered from chronic back pain. At that time, I ate McDonald's almost every day. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  Don't buy toaster pastries made with this refined white flour; go to the health food store and get whole-wheat toaster pastries. Don’t feed your kids syrup made with nothing but sugar and flavors, or any of these other things like jellies or jams made with refined sugar and a little bit of fruit flavor. Go get the real thing. Go get some real fresh fruit in a jar. That's what you should be shooting for. If you do that, you can give your kids a huge advantage, not just each and every day, but also for the development of their nervous systems, that will stay with them for the rest of their lives. |
Mike Adams
See book keywords and concepts |  In Nutrition and Physical Degeneration, author Weston Price adds:
"In the production of refined white flour approximately eighty per cent or four-fifths of the phosphorus and calcium content are usually removed, together with the vitamins and minerals provided in the embryo or germ."
With this in mind, don't be shocked to learn that the very first thing our food factory does with a truckload of wheat is to physically remove the bran and the germ. These parts of the grain are sent into a waste pile, and are not intended for human consumption. |
Phyllis A. Balch, CNC
See book keywords and concepts |  Poor food choices include processed foods, junk foods, refined white flour products, white sugar products, and imitation foods that are designed to appear and taste like an original product but that have been robbed of natural vitamins, minerals, and enzymes.
3. Overeating. Overeating is probably the most common cause of liver malfunction. Overeating creates excess work for the liver, resulting in liver fatigue. In addition, the liver must detoxify all of the various chemicals present in our food supply today. When the liver is overworked, it may not detoxify harmful substances properly.
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Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  You can eat donuts, pastries, crackers and cookies all day long, and you can fill yourself up with refined white flour, bleached flour, milled grains, refined sugars, corn syrup and other ingredients, and still be starving because your body doesn't get the nutrition it needs out of those ingredients. They are nothing but empty carbohydrates, and that's why they contribute to obesity, adult onset type 2 diabetes, and even mental disorders like depression, mood swings, aggressive and violent behavior in young males or attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  On top of that, chicken soup often has noodles in it, and those noodles are made with refined white flour, which also depletes vitamins and minerals from your body. So, chicken soup really offers nothing of value except, perhaps, the onions and garlic (the medicinal plants in the broth).
In contrast to processed salt, sea salt or Himalayan salt is very good for you. Mined from natural salt deposits, these salts contain an array of health-promoting minerals (including trace minerals), far beyond the sodium and chloride found in typical processed salt. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  These are supposed to be places of health, yet they are serving people foods with toxic ingredients like sodium nitrate, saturated animal fats, refined white flour in the buns of these hamburgers and MSG in the meats. There's sugar in the tomato sauce, acrylamides in the fried foods, and hardly a speck of life left in the menus of most hospitals. There is truly dangerous food being served right now in cafeterias at cancer centers, hospitals, clinics, and, of course, public schools, all across the country. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts | | That's right, that box of cereal with refined white flour, or what they call "enriched, bleached white flour." It's all in the diet folks.
So now, let's take a look at a healthy person, someone making wise food choices, and starting off their morning right. What do they eat? 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. | | That's what I want to see: Whole-grain wheat. Not "refined white flour," "bleached flour," or "wheat flour" -- I want to see whole-grain wheat. Of course, the second ingredient is sugar, and that's not something I'm thrilled about. However, again, this is still a step in the right direction.
Because let's face it, most consumers out there don't read labels at all. They're just going to buy the popular cereals no matter what's in them, as long as it tastes good. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  And this one ingredient -- refined white flour -- strips the body of essential nutrition, leaving it deficient in B vitamins as well as minerals like magnesium and zinc. These are precisely the minerals that children need in order to build healthy nervous systems and avoid behavioral disorders later in life. These are also the same nutrients that pregnant women need to be able to give birth to babies that don't have birth defects. |
Mike Adams
See book keywords and concepts | | When consumers purchase products made with refined white flour, they are in a sense of voting for this production process. The more consumers purchase foods that contain healthy oils, fiber, and whole grains, the more food factories and food manufacturers will retool their processes to meet that consumer demand. 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. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  As far as other foods that cause body odor, manufactured foods -- those lacking fiber and made with refined white flour, added sugars, hydrogenated oils and other processed ingredients -- are the big culprits. When you eliminate these from your diet and shift to a 100% healthful diet made of whole grains, massive quantities of leafy vegetables, fresh fruits, soy products, supergreens, lots of sprouts, raw nuts and seeds, healthy oils and other similar healthful ingredients, your body odor will all but disappear in a matter of weeks.
That's because a plant-based diet is an internal deodorizer. |
Mike Adams
See book keywords and concepts | | Whereas highly refined white flour will support almost no insect life, a good product will support a relatively large amount of insect life in proportion to the volume of flour.
Consider this: food factories must deliver the food ingredients that are desired by manufacturers. And manufacturers, in turn, must deliver the foods and grocery products that are desired and purchased by consumers. Thus, it is ultimately consumers who decide which products succeed in the marketplace and how grains are processed. |
Gabriel Cousens, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  These morbid influences include hybrid and high-sweet fruits, radiation, intense pollution, heavy-metal toxicity, an accelerated amount of stress in the environment and within our minds, war, pestilence, plague, terrorism, use of genetically engineered food, irradiated food, processed food, fast food, junk food, refined white flour, white sugar, and canned food. All of these specifically are a morbid influence on the living colloid field as it attempts to express the pure subtle organizing energy matrix inherent in our cells and tissues. |
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