Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  While you're at it, avoid white bread and refined grains, too, because they're very similar to sugars in the way they impact the nervous system.
Aspartame: This artificial chemical sweetener greatly impairs healthy nervous system function. This is partly because aspartame can chemically break down into trace amounts of formaldehyde, and formaldehyde is an extremely toxic nerve poison. Drinking aspartame is sort of like poisoning your brain with chemical preservatives. That's great if you're trying to embalm yourself, but not so good if you actually plan to use your brain for anything useful. |
Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  Americans Go Low Fat and Fat Free but Consume
More Carbs
Another movement that has no doubt contributed to obesity is our pursuit of foods that are low in fat, but that end up being high in refined grains and/or sugar. Indeed, as mentioned earlier, beginning in the late 1970s, many Americans, assuming they were making the correct dietary choices, began to follow the U.S.-government-sanctioned recommendation that we eat less fat and more carbs.
¦ This meant that health-conscious Americans were possibly eating or trying to eat 6 to 11 servings a day of bread, cereal, rice, and pasta. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  How about all the infants suffering birth defects from the nutritional deficiencies caused by their mothers chowing down refined grains, hydrogenated oils and nutrient-depleted procesed foods? No problem: Blame China! If you're a U.S. regulatory body and you're looking for an easy way out of owning up to actual responsibility, just play the China card. Invoke the blame game!
Advocating the chemical intoxication of the American people
The FDA also allows all kinds of toxic chemicals to be used in over-the-counter pharmaceuticals. |
Jack Challem
See book keywords and concepts |  Examples: Sugars, such as sucrose and high-fructose corn syrup, are found in nearly all nonfruit sweets, including desserts, doughnuts, pastries, and muffins, as well as soft drinks. refined grains are used to make bagels, breads, pastas, and pizzas—and most whole-grain breads and pastas are also problematic. They are still highly refined, though not quite as bad as white breads or pseudo whole wheat breads (that is, white breads with molasses added to darken their color). |
David W. Grotto, RD, LDN
See book keywords and concepts |  HEART HEALTH: Several studies show reduction in cholesterol and triglycerides when whole grains, as opposed to refined grains, are part of the diet.
RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS: A study of rheumatoid arthritis patients who were given a fermented wheat germ extract in addition to their steroid therapies found significant improvement compared to steroid use alone.
CANCER: A meta-analysis revealed that there is an inverse relationship between whole grain consumption and colorectal, gastric, and endometrial cancers. | | Fasting insulin was ten percent lower when whole grains were consumed versus when refined grains were eaten.
OBESITY: According to a study in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, people who consumed the most whole grain foods had a lower body mass index (BMI).
Tips on Using Wheat
SELECTION AND STORAGE:
• There are basically six classes of wheat to choose from:
• Durum—Used to make semolina flour for pasta.
• Hard Red Spring—High-protein wheat used for baked goods. | | Fiber from whole grains, but not refined grains, is inversely associated with all-cause mortality in older women: The Iowa women's health study. J Am Coll Nutr. 2000;19(3 Suppl):326S-330S. Jenkins DJA et al. Effect of wheat bran on glycemic control and risk factors for cardiovascular disease in type 2 diabetes. Diabetes Care. 2002;25:1522-1528. Jenkins DJA et al. Low glycemic response to traditionally processed wheat and rye products: bulgur and pumpernickel bread. Am J Clin Nutr. 1986;43:516-520. Pereira Mark A et al. |
C. W. Randolph, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  Some foods are made from a mixture of whole and refined grains.
Some grain products contain significant amounts of bran. Bran provides fiber, which is important for health. However, products with added bran or bran alone (e.g., oat bran) are not necessarily whole-grain products.
On their website, www.wholegrainlife.com, General Mills offers excellent information regarding "What Is a Whole Grain?" and "How to Find a Whole Grain Product." The good news is that General Mills products are readily available in every grocery store across the nation.
Kashi (www.kashi. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  You might ask, "OK, Mike, what's wrong with all of the refined grains?" This might be a review for all of you who are familiar with this information, but I've got to cover this for the new readers. What's wrong with refined grains? There's a lot wrong with them. If you take a whole grain out of the ground and then you mill it, you end up stripping away virtually all of the nutrition. As much as 98 percent of the magnesium, for example, is gone by the time it's refined. By the time it's white, bleached flour that's shipped off for human consumption, it's depleted of its nutrients. | | There's another reason: when you consume refined grains, they actually strip nutrition out of your body. During digestion, it takes more nutrition out of your body to process those refined grains than you get from them. Basically, all you're getting when you eat white bread, white flour or breakfast cereals made with white flour is empty calories -- nothing but the carbohydrate, or technically the endosperm of the grain.
You also get some things you don't want in white flour. Sometimes you get pesticide, solvents or other contaminants. I don't want to be eating anything that says "bleached. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  I'm not big on recommending grains in general, but whole grains are certainly better than refined grains, and the fact that whole grains are getting more press these days, combined with the fact that manufacturers are reformulating their foods to use whole grains rather than refined grains, means that whole grain consumption is going up. 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. |
Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts | | Ma and his colleagues found—after weighing, measuring, and analyzing the physical activity of 572 healthy adults—that those who ate more refined grains, starchy vegetables, and similar carbs were significantly heavier than people who ate superior, nutrient-dense carbs such as nonstarchy vegetables, whole grains, nuts, and seeds.
"The total amount of carbohydrates is not related to body weight," Dr. Ma explains. |
Elaine Magee
See book keywords and concepts |  Whole grains are digested more slowly than refined grains, which have beneficial effects on blood sugar and insulin (keeping levels of both down). A recent study found that the more whole grains men and women ate, the lower their fasting insulin levels were. And this is a good thing.
Lengthen your life span. After analyzing data from more than 15,000 people ages 45 to 64, researchers from the University of Minnesota School of Public Health found that as whole grain intake went up, total mortality (the rate of death from all causes) went down. |
James Dowd and Diane Stafford
See book keywords and concepts |  These vitamins are most abundant in lean, fresh animal meats, including seafood. refined grains don't contain many of these nutrients, but most Americans think they do. Manufacturers add these nutrients into the mix when processing grain to make flour-based products more nutritious, but you're much better off eating fresh, lean animal protein. Make sure to take a multivitamin that contains 100 percent of your DRI (dietary reference intake) for niacin and vitamins B, and B,n.
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Vitamin D
You know that you can't get enough vitamin D from your diet, which means you need sun and supplements. |
Lester A. Mitscher and Victoria Toews
See book keywords and concepts |  Asian diets are well-known for what they don't contain: they are low in fat, meat, refined grains, and sugar. But what is served on the dinner tables in Japan and China, such as plenty of vegetables, complex carbohydrates, and soy foods, may be just as important as what's missing from them. More specifically, what's brewing in Asian teapots accounts for at least part of the secret to Asian longevity.
Green Tea's Role in a Long, Healthy Life
This chart lists the "symptoms" or observable effects of aging, their physical causes, and the "counteractions" of green tea for each. |
Gabriel Cousens
See book keywords and concepts |  Cadmium sources include tap water, fungicides, marijuana, processed meat, rubber, seafood (cod, haddock, oyster, tuna), sewage, tobacco, colas (especially from vending machines), tools, welding material, evaporated milk, airborne industrial contaminants, batteries, instant coffee, incineration of tires/rubber/plastic, refined grains, soft water, galvanized pipes, dental alloys, candy, ceramics, electroplating, fertilizers, paints, motor oil, and motor exhaust. | | The other, characterized as Western, had a high consumption of red meat, processed foods, fat, dairy products, refined grains, sweets, and desserts. The researchers found that the Western dietary pattern was associated with substantially increased risk of Type-2 diabetes. They found that high blood sugar levels led to complications such as blindness, kidney failure, and heart disease. The key factors were being overweight and physically inactive, as well as having a diet that was not prudent. |
Mark Sircus
See book keywords and concepts |  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. |
Dr. Steven R. Gundry
See book keywords and concepts |  Did you know that hypertension simply doesn't exist in societies that don't eat the Western diet or lots of refined grains? But in our culture, after we eat such foods for about twenty years, hypertension rears its ugly head. What happens if hypertension goes untreated? A blood vessel pops in your brain, causing a massive stroke, or your heart enlarges and thickens—meaning it can't pump blood effectively-or your kidneys don't get enough blood to filter out poisons. |
Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea
See book keywords and concepts |  The correlation is probably related to what are termed "energy density" and "energy cost." refined grains, supplemental sugars, and added fats are among the lowest cost sources of dietary energy. They taste good; in addition they are inexpensive and convenient. Unfortunately, these calorie-laden foods are not very nutritious. They have a high energy density and a low energy cost. By contrast, nutrient dense foods such as lean meat, fish, fruit, and fresh vegetables generally have a lower energy density and a higher energy cost. |
Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey
See book keywords and concepts |  Nevertheless, diets with a low glycemic index often include few refined grains and sugars and plenty of fruits, vegetables, whole grains, legumes, and milk, which have numerous ingredients that could protect against AMD. Thus, high glycemic index diets, like high-fat diets, may be related to higher rates of AMD, in part or in whole, because they are poorer in a wide variety of protective nutrients and other diet components. Relationships of overall diet patterns to AMD have not yet been studied.
I. Herbal Supplements
The use of herbal supplements has increased in the United States. |
Ron Garner
See book keywords and concepts |  Caffeine, nicotine, sugar, table salt, red meats (to a large extent), strong spices, chocolate (made with sugar), trans fats and hydrogenated oils, fried foods, dairy products (except unsalted butter in moderation), refined grains and flours and their products, nonorganic-source or high potency or synthetic vitamin and mineral supplements, 'enriched' foods and foods with chemical additives. Genetically altered foods. ?Cereals, grains, and seeds that are processed, boxed, puffed, flaked. Roasted commercial cereals. Cereals with sugar. White rice. Roasted and/or salted or rancid seeds. |
Elaine Magee
See book keywords and concepts | | Along the same lines, limit refined grains and sugary foods because they contain empty calories.
Focus on dietary fat. For cancer prevention, some fats may be worse than others. While high-fat diets have been associated with an increased risk of colon and prostate cancer, it's the type of fat (rather than the total amount) that looks to be most important for preventing many types of cancer, including breast cancer. We may be adding ovarian cancer to that list, too. |
Brenda Davis and Tom Barnard
See book keywords and concepts |  Select mainly whole grains, and not more than two servings of refined grains each day. Whole grains are more slowly digested than refined grains, leaving you feeling satisfied for a longer time. When you eat whole grains, you tend to eat slightly less than when you eat refined grains. Your best choices are intact whole grains (i.e., millet, quinoa, barley, brown rice). Use these grains for puddings, hot breakfast cereal, pilafs, casseroles, soups, and salads. þInclude at least two to four servings of legumes (beans), and products made from legumes (tofu, tempeh, vegetable patties, etc. |
Dr. Steven R. Gundry
See book keywords and concepts | | Killer genes are being activated in smokers and marathoners as well as folks who live on foods full of refined grains, sugar, and trans fats and deficient in micronutrients. Most patients hospitalized with heart disease or diabetes show a similar nutritional profile: they're overfed but undernourished, with remarkably low levels of quality protein and vitamins and minerals revealed in their blood work. They wound up in the hospital because their genes are trying to dispose of them. |
Elaine Magee
See book keywords and concepts | | Your goal should be to eat at least three 1-ounce servings per day of whole grain foods—preferably in place of refined grains, according to the latest dietary guidelines. And with the new and improved whole grain-blend pastas available and the emphasis on whole grains in the cereal aisle, I'm at my "three a day" goal by lunch!
3. BECOME VORACIOUS FOR VEGGIES
How many times do we have to hear about how amazing vegetables are for us before we really take it to heart? |
Dr. Steven R. Gundry
See book keywords and concepts | | You'll get to snack on nuts and seeds, but you'll renounce all foods made with sugar or refined grains and other processed foods. I recommend you follow this phase for at least six weeks. For those of you with significant weight-loss problems, you can safely stay on Teardown for up to a year.
You're Not a Threat to Future Generations You'll do this in Phase 2, the Restoration phase, by increasing your portions of vegetables and simultaneously decreasing your intake of animal protein. | | Just as eating lots of ripe fruit floods your body with sugar, so do refined grains, meaning that they also activate what I have termed the "Store Fat for Winter" genetic program. Dr. Atkins and other low-carbers regard refined carbohydrates as the root of all evil, but they see only the trees, not the forest. Avoiding refined carbohydrates was a good start, but it is just one piece of the puzzle.
Let me end this chapter on a cautionary note. | | Our Western diet is so full of sugars and refined grains, which behave exactly like sugars, that most of us are sending out this message 24/?. In fact, any sweet substance, even an artificial sweetener, tells your computer program that sugar is on the way, so please produce insulin. No wonder no study has ever shown that sugar substitutes have any benefit for weight loss, and that even just the tasfe of sweetness raises insulin levels.8-11 spring. I call this system "Store Fat for Winter. |
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