Foods That May Be Harmful Refined And Bleached White Flour

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Refined And Bleached White Flour:

Virtually every grocery store in America sells a vast array of foods
that promote chronic diseases. Foods made with white flour are very
common. That includes most breads, cookies, crackers, pastries and
pastas. 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.

WHY WHITE FLOUR ANYWAY?

Have you ever been driving through the countryside and passed through
beautiful, pristine snow-white wheat fields? Of course not!!
That's because wheat is BROWN.

At the beginning of the industrial age millers found out that they
could grind wheat to an extremely fine consistency using steel
rollers. And they could get it even finer by removing the husks,
hulls and bran. But this was a little more expensive than the more
common coarse bread. As time passed, being able to afford finely
milled flour became a status symbol separating the haves from the
have-nots. Eventually food manufacturers started bleaching the flour
to make it "pure" and white and VERY distinguished from the brown and
coarse (and wholesome) wheat of the commoners. Eventually modern
manufacturing techniques made "white bread" a commodity that everybody
could afford. It was affectionately called "light bread". (That's
what my grandparents called it until the day they died).

What started off as a status symbol (designer bread?) eventually
became a mainstay and one of the most widely consumed, but least
healthiest things you can eat.

THE BOTTOMLINE:

The bottomline and usually at the root of any injustice or malady is
$MONEY$

You may know that if you're in the food business, it's difficult to
ship food without having it infested by various pests. There are mice,
rats and insects that want to eat your food as it is being
transported. But when companies ship refined white flour in large 50
lb. bags, they don't have to use any insecticide whatsoever. That's
because if an insect gets into the bag of white flour and starts
eating it, that insect will die from consuming it. White flour is a
natural insecticide because it kills any insect that attempts to live
off of it.

What makes the food industry unethical is that they stand to lose the
most of their profits through spoilage. White flour JUST LIKE
HYDROGENATED VEGETABLE OIL is a preservative.

So by the time the truck arrives at its destination, which might be a
cereal company, a bread company or some kind of food producer, if
there were ants or crickets or other insects that got into the truck
when it left the factory, all those insects will be dead by the time
it arrives. Why did they die? They were eating the white flour. You
can try this experiment yourself by buying some white flour, putting
it in a bowl and throwing some ants and crickets in with it. Give them
a little bit of water, just so they don't die from dehydration, and
then find out how long they live. You'll find they won't live very
long at all. The fact is that white flour will (slowly) kill you.
White flour contains diabetes-causing contaminant alloxan. Studies
show that alloxan, the chemical that makes white flour look "clean"
and "beautiful," destroys the beta cells of the pancreas. That's
right; you may be devastating your pancreas and putting yourself at
risk for diabetes, all for the sake of eating "beautiful" flour. Is it
worth it?

White bread will cause nutritional deficiencies and it will ultimately
put you in a state of chronic disease that could easily be avoided by
consuming whole grain flour and getting outstanding nutrition rather
than consuming processed grains.

Every grocery store in America sells foods containing cancer-causing
chemicals (sodium nitrite), heart disease promoting ingredients
(hydrogenated oils), and drinks that promote osteoporosis and bone
loss (carbonated soft drinks). It's almost like a disease store, not a
grocery store, since most items on the shelves are actually "disease
in a box" rather than real food.

These ingredients are, technically, chemical assaults on the American
public. People are consuming bacon every morning all across America
made with sodium nitrite, a chemical additive that causes colon
cancer. And yet the USDA remains silent. The FDA remains silent. And
the food companies, playing a full-press game of food politics,
continue to insist that all of these ingredients are perfectly good
for you, even while suppressing precisely the information that would
educate you about ways to enhance your health by making healthier food
choices.

We could save hundreds of thousands of lives each year right here in
America if we just banned hydrogenated oils, high-fructose corn syrup,
and the refining of whole-grain flour into unhealthful white, bleached
flour.

ALL FOODS ARE EITHER A TOXIN OR A MEDICINE. TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR
INVESTIGATING AND FINDING OUT MORE ABOUT THE THINGS YOU AND YOUR
FAMILY INGEST!!!!

But of course... IT'S YOUR HEALTH. Why take our word for it? You can
research anything mentioned on this site yourself. Good search
engines are www.mamma.com or www.google.com. or www.dogpile.com or
ww.ask.com. Just enter one or more keywords and do your own
research.

Until next time remember, most illness (upwards of 80% according to
experts) can be attributed to FOUR important factors that can
weaken your immune system and your ability to fight off disease:

1. Anxiety, depression, anger, guilt and other STRESS factors.
LEARN TO FORGIVE AND LET GO.

2. Improper and/or inadequate NUTRITION habits. LEARN TO AVOID
PROCESSED AND/OR REFINED FOODS.

3. A sedentary lifestyle that does not include enough EXERCISE.
FIND SOME KIND OF PHYSICALLY ENGAGING ACTIVITY IF IT IS NOTHING BUT
MORNING OR EVENING WALKS.

4. Not enough rest and quality SLEEP time. GO TO BED. "EARLY TO
BED AND EARLY TO RISE; MAKES A MAN HEALTHY, WEALTHY AND WISE".

LEGAL DISCLAIMER - Required by the FDA. The statements on this page
have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration and
these statements are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or
prevent any disease.

Until next time,
Q