Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 It can look like they are doing a little bit better, but it is still not whole grain. That is another thing people don't realize on their label. If it is whole ground grain, then it should say whole ground grain on the bag. If it just says brown rice, white rice or corn, then it's just the flour out of it. It is the by-product. If it is really bad and has just bits and pieces in it, then it will say brown rice bits. You are getting the bottom of it. You are getting the sweepings.
This interview continues in part 2 (published tomorrow), where Dr. |
Kelly Harford, M.C., C.N.C.
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 Furthermore, unless you are the very rare person who cooks up bowls of wheat berries, which is its whole grain form, all of the wheat being served up in this country is processed — the overwhelming majority of which is highly processed into white refined flour. This devitalized anti-nutrient is such an aberration from its natural state that it is included in the upcoming list of Things to Avoid. Unfortunately, even many of the products labeled 'whole wheat' are themselves highly processed and also frequently contain white refined flour and refined sugars as well. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Mueller: That's right, and if you're already in the kitchen, you're probably mixing something else while your whole grain quinoa's boiling.
Mike: What about children? Do kids like this recipe?
Mueller: Actually, our most popular flavor right now is the Oaxacan Chocolate.
Mike: Kids are eating it up?
Mueller: They're eating it up. Parents love it too, because it has the lowest sugar number of all our flavors. Kids like the taste of it because it's got that little bit of chocolate in it as well.
Mike: Wonderful. Well, I wish you the best of success with this product line. |
Kelly Harford, M.C., C.N.C.
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| IV2 cups whole grain spelt flour
1 tsp. ground cinnamon
1A tsp. ground nutmeg
1A tsp. ground allspice
V2 tsp. sea salt (optional)
IV2 tsp. baking powder
Combine all liquid ingredients. Stir in grated carrots (best if grated very fine using food processor). In separate bowl, stir together all dry ingredients. Add to carrot mixture, mixing in gently and only until thoroughly mixed. Do not beat. Pour into greased 9x9" square baking pan.
Bake at 350° for 45-50 minutes or until knife inserted comes out clean. Allow to cool. |
Mike Adams
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 This endosperm contains no fiber, and almost none of the nutrition of the whole grain.
As described in the book Power Foods by Stephanie Beling, M.D., "The milling process that creates refined white flour also reduces nutritional content. The process, comprising upwards of twenty separate steps, removes the hull and parts of the bran from the kernels, then grinds the grain into powder-like flour. In making white flour, both the germ and the bran are stripped away from the wheat kernel, leaving only the endosperm. |
| It is missing as much as 98 percent of the original mineral content and it contains none of the healthy oils found in the whole grain. In fact, this white powder is so lacking in vitamins that federal law requires the food factory to add in tiny amounts of certain, isolated vitamins such as B3 to make sure this food doesn't cause obvious nutritional deficiency diseases like beriberi.
How refined, milled grains cause nutritional deficiencies
This phenomenon is explained well by Dr. |
| What you're eating, as a result, is the endosperm of grains, not the whole grain.
The healthy ingredients are never intended for human consumption
But what happened to all of the healthy minerals, vitamins and oils that were originally contained in the grain? I didn't tell you about a back door to this factory, the one that delivers products for use in livestock like cattle and pigs. Through this door, all the "waste byproducts" of refining wheat - the healthy oils, minerals, vitamins and fiber - are delivered to be used as feed for cattle, chickens, and pigs. |
Michele Simon
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 The choice between Quarter Pounders, Oreos, Diet Mountain Dew, and whole grain Cocoa Puffs is really no choice at all.
When they say: Food cops want to restrict consumer choice.
They assume: Regulating corporate behavior equals restricdng consumers.
It's important to distinguish between government control over individual rights and reasonable regulation of corporate behavior. CCF's use of "food cop" scare tactics is a devious attempt to equate the interests of corporations with those of individuals. This equation is of course patently false. |
Mike Adams
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| Manufacturers can take an otherwise healthy whole grain and convert it into a high-carbohydrate grain that's digested much like white flour. That's primarily what you get when you purchase instant rolled oats.
Instead, look for steel cut oats, or oat groats. These offer the best health benefits. Even then, you have to eat them sparingly, since they do provide a hefty dose of carbohydrates.
Of course, it's wise to completely avoid any flavored oat products such as instant breakfast oatmeal packages. All of these contain refined sugars, chemical sweeteners, or both. |
Kevin Trudeau
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 Choose unbleached, organic, whole grain flours.
SunOrganic Farm www.sunorganic.com (888) 289-9888 Heartland Mill www.heartlandmill.com (800) 232-8533 Food For Life www.foodforlife.com (800) 797-5090 Purity Foods www.purityfoods.com (517) 351-9231
24. Do not eat "food bars."
Eat organic live food bars.
Crystal Manna Bars www.lydiasorganics.com (415) 258-9678 Gopal's Raw Bars www.naturalzing.com (888) 729-9464 CocoChia bars www.livingnutritionals.com (800) 642-4113 Nature's First Law www.rawfood.com (800) 205-2350
Blessing's Alive and Radiant Foods www.deliciousorganics. |
The Editors of FC&A
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| Lima beans, nuts, and other legumes
• whole grain cereals
• Tea and water
• Olive oil
• Eggs, skim milk, low-fat yogurt, and low-fat cheese
• Fish, especially fatty fish such as sardines. The researchers estimate that a 3.5-ounce serving of fish twice a week might be the right amount for your skin. Your serving should be slightly larger than a deck of cards.
Aim for antioxidants. Why would these foods prevent wrinkles better than other foods? The Monash University researchers point out that the anti-wrinkle foods are generally high in antioxidants. |
| A good selenium-filled lunch would be a cup of barley soup, a tuna fish sandwich made with whole grain bread, and a stalk of celery. As with zinc, it's better to get selenium from foods than from supplements. Too much of it is just as dangerous as not enough.
Go nuts for vitamin E. For a sunny outlook in preserving your eyesight, munch on a handful of sunflower seeds. Or try almonds or hazelnuts. You'll get a large load of vitamin E, one of several nutrients that work together to slow down the progress of AMD. |
| Because the legumes group includes both beans and peanuts, even whole grain bread with peanut butter gets the job done. If you want something a little wilder, try the Cajun dish red beans and rice. Some people say you can have good luck year round if you remember to have black-eyed peas with rice on New Year's Day - and that could mean good luck for your eyesight, too.
For a protein-rich snack that's portable and meat-free, stick with creamy delicious yogurt.
Pick a papaya for vitamin E. Unlikely as it seems, the lusciously sweet papaya can be a good source for vitamin E. |
| Crush your risk of breast cancer
A hearty whole grain cereal sprinkled with nutty-tasting flaxseed may help you avoid breast cancer. The fiber in these foods could be the vital ingredient.
Fiber not only gives you that satisfying just-full-enough feeling, but it may also help shrink circulating estrogen levels for women who haven't reached menopause. Less estrogen in your bloodstream could mean less risk of breast cancer. So get more breast-protecting fiber from these appealing foods.
Fight back with flaxseed. |
Michele Simon
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| For example, General Mills has "reformulated" all of its cereals to contain "whole grain"—even sugary kids' brands.
Self-regulation: The voluntary system of oversight that food corporations prefer to having government meddling in their business practices.
Sensible Solutions: Kraft Foods' self-defined nutritional seal program. Sensible Solutions products marketed to kids include "1\2 the Sugar Fruity Pebbles" and "Pepperoni Flavored Sausage Pizza Lunchables."
Silver bullet: Term food lobbyists like to use to dismiss any regulation that singles out their products. |
| Reformulating products with whole grain is just one recent addition to the processed-food industry's burgeoning bag of marketing tricks. Touting products as "zero trans fat" is another popular promotion ploy, especially since the feds added trans fat to the required "Nutrition Facts" label. Regardless of whether they ever contained the artery-congesting substance to begin with, many otherwise nutritionally dismal items now sport trans fat free labels like badges of honor. Among my favorite examples is Frito-Lay's "zero trans fat" Chicago Steakhouse Loaded Baked Potato Flavored Potato Chips. |
| These foods are glaringly deficient in the diets of most Americans, many of whom don't even know what a whole grain is or where to find one. You can't go to the supermarket and ask the shop clerk for the whole-grain aisle, but you can easily find the potato-chip aisle or the cookie aisle or the soda aisle.
Americans have become accustomed to eating highly processed foods that come in a package—the antithesis of whole foods that come from nature. The very definition of food has been transformed by industry, yet the dietary guidelines don't reflect that. |
Mike Adams
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| In this way, they are even more ignorant than Japanese peasants in the 1800s who at least knew to eat whole grain rice if they were to stay healthy.
Contamination of milled, refined carbohydrates
As if the health effects from eating sugars and refined carbohydrates weren't bad enough, it turns out that the processing and milling of these substances also introduces minute quantities of other harmful contaminants. |
Neal D. Barnard and Bryanna Clark Grogan
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 Grains: For each piece of white bread, bagel, or equivalent, score a 1. whole grain breads score a 2, as does 1 cup of cooked pasta. One cup of rice scores a 1 for white and a 3 for brown. One cup of cooked oatmeal scores a 4. Score a 3 for typical ready-to-eat cereals, a 1 for highly processed and colored cereals, and an 8 for bran.
Soda, water: Score a 0.
Interpreting Your Score
Total your fiber score and let's see how you are doing.
Less than 20: You need more fiber in your diet. As it is, your appetite will be hard to control, and you may have occasional constipation. |
Mike Adams
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 Healing foods for colon cancer (see also Cancer)
***** cranberries ***** tomato ***** soybeans ***** cabbage ***** tempeh ***** rye ***** beets ***** fish ***** almonds
***** brussels sprouts ***** cauliflower ***** yogurt ***** triticale ***** okra ***** whole grain wheat ***** broccoli ***** kale ***** wheat
Constipation / Irregular bowel movements / Intestinal blockage
There is a joke about constipation circulating around the internet that rings true much more than many of its readers probably realize. |
T. Colin Campbell, Ph.D. and Thomas M. Campbell II
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 But do eat whole, complex carbohydrate-containing foods such as unprocessed fresh fruits and vegetables, and whole grain products like brown rice and oatmeal. These unprocessed carbohydrates, especially from fruits and vegetables, are exceptionally health-promoting.
You also may have heard that calcium is beneficial in fighting colon cancer. This, of course, gets extended to the argument that cow's milk fights colon cancer. |
James F. Balch, M.D. and Mark Stengler, N.D.
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 White, refined bread also spikes blood-sugar levels. whole grain breads, cereals, and pastas are better choices. Brown rice, barley, oats, spelt, and kamut are complex carbohydrates that are good choices.
Avoid cow's milk. Some studies have found a link between cow's milk ingestion and type 1 diabetes in children. It appears that some children, due to genetic reasons, react to the cow's milk protein (caseins), which causes an autoimmune reaction with the pancreas.
Eliminate alcohol and caffeine from your diet.
Cut back on your consumption of saturated fat. |
Alan R. Gaby, M.D., Jonathan V. Wright, M.D., Forrest Batz, Pharm.D. Rick Chester, RPh., N.D., DipLAc. George Constantine, R.Ph., Ph.D. Linnea D. Thompson, Pharm.D., N.D.
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 A recent preliminary study suggested that a healthy, balanced diet low in fried foods and sausages, and high in vegetables, fruits, fish, and complex carbohydrates, such as whole grain rice and pasta, was associated with protection from many aspects of IRS.12
The effect of dietary fat on insulin resistance seems to depend on the type of fat eaten. |
| Consuming a diet high in insoluble fiber is best achieved by switching from white rice to brown rice and from bakery goods made with white flour or mixed flours to 100% whole wheat bread, whole rye crackers, and whole grain pancake mixes. Refined white flour is generally listed on food packaging labels as "flour," "enriched flour," "unbleached flour," "durum wheat," "semolina," or "white flour." Breads containing only whole wheat are often labeled "100% whole wheat. |
| Consuming a diet high in insoluble fiber is best achieved by switching from white rice to brown rice and from bakery goods made with white flour or mixed flours to 100% whole wheat bread, whole rye crackers, and whole grain pancake mixes. Refined white flour is generally listed on food packaging labels as "flour," "enriched flour," "unbleached flour," "durum wheat," "semolina," or "white flour." Breads containing only whole wheat are usually labeled "100% whole wheat. |
| The meta-analysis portion of this review showed that regular whole grain foods are associated with a coronary heart disease risk reduction of about 26%. In general, the fibers most linked to the reduction of cholesterol levels are found in oats (page 716), psyllium (page 732) seeds, fruit (pectin) and beans (guar gum).9 An analysis of many soluble fiber trials proves that a cholesterol (page 223) lowering effect exists, but the amount the cholesterol falls is quite modest. |
| Preliminary research has found that women who ate mostly whole grain fiber had a lower mortality rate than women who ate a comparable amount of refined grains.16
How much is usually taken?
Western diets generally provide approximately 10 grams of fiber per day. So-called "primitive societies" consume 40-60 grams per day. Increasing fiber intake to the amounts found in primitive diets may be desirable.
Are there any side effects or interactions? |
T. Colin Campbell, Ph.D. and Thomas M. Campbell II
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| Have you ever known anyone who regularly consumes fresh fruits, vegetables and whole grain foods—and rarely, if ever, consumes meats or junk foods like chips, French fries and candy bars? What is his or her weight like? If you know many people like this, you have probably noticed that they tend to have a healthy weight. Now think of traditional cultures around the world. Think of traditional Asian cultures (Chinese, Japanese, Indian), where a couple of billion people have been eating a mostly plant-based diet for thousands of years. |
Mike Adams
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| Healing foods for Breast Cancer
***** soybeans ***** cabbage
***** tomato ***** flaxseeds
***** fish ***** tempeh
***** cauliflower ***** triticale
***** orange ***** mandarin
***** kiwi ***** whole grain wheat
***** lentils ***** wheat
***** broccoli
Products to consider for Breast Cancer:
<*~ Mega Green Tea and Extract and Dual-Action Cruciferous Vegetable Extract (www.LEF.org)
Una de Gato and Aquazon and Graviola (http://AmazonDreams.AmazonHerb.net) *" Baseline Nutritionals Women's Formula (www.BaselineNutritionals.com) ** GCW Antioxidant Defense System RED (www.GoodCauseWellness. |
Abram Hoffer, PhD, MD, FRCP(C) and Dr. Jonathan Prousjy, DPHE, DSC, ND, FRSH
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 By 1900, white bread and pure sugar had massively displaced whole grain cereals as food staples in high-tech societies.
This trend accelerated in the 20th century. Dr Ross Hume Hall, in his book Food for Naught: The Decline in Nutrition, estimates that since the Second World War, consumption of overly processed food has increased from 25% of the total food intake to more than 75%. This provides an estimate of the invasion of our food by chemistry, which has made our food less nutritious, if not harmful to our health. |
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