Why Grains May Be Ruining Your Health

It is no longer true to say that eating a balanced diet (even if it is organic) will keep you strong, healthy and illness free.

Why?

Put simply any life form is only as healthy as what it feeds on, and all of us eat animals, vegetables, or cereals so we are exposed to whatever is put into the food chain.

Chemicals - fertilisers, pesticides run off into the rivers, seas, and grazing land.

Overfarming leeches out vitamins and minerals vital for the plant to be healthy (even if it is organic), and dominant retailers pick the most profitable option, even if it means transporting and storage for long periods, so it is less than fresh.

Grains are foodstuffs derived from cereal grasses, such as wheat, barley, corn, rye, spelt, buckwheat etc.

Before the industrial revolution and factory farming our grains were all soaked and sprouted by rain water after they were picked. This left them with good levels of vitamins C, B and washed away the mineral blockers- like phytic acid, and toxins that can cause trouble in your digestive or immune systems - aflatoxins, and mycotoxins.

Factory farming destroyed all this by processing grains straight after picking, then storing in barns so vitamins were lost and toxins were allowed in. The grain industry was (and still is) heavily marketed (including the misconception that ‘white foods’ are best), and people grew fatter as their diet changed to consuming these processed carbohydrates, and not eating a diet right for their metabolic type.

This heavily processed grain is absorbed too quickly to be used for energy and is stored as fat. This has caused increased insulin sensitivity, obesity and been the genesis of many diseases not seen before factory farming. In addition, about 60% of people cannot digest these kind of processed grains without the vitamins and with the toxins they contain, and this manifests as food intolerance.

So what can we do?

The best advice is this…

• Minimise commercial and processed grains - bread, breakfast cereals, pasta, read food labels as they are found in unexpected places - coffee for example. Pick organic with minimal processing.

• Eat organic grains, in a proportion right for your metabolic type.

• If you are going to eat bread, either make it yourself from sprouted grains or buy sprouted grain bread.

• Ensure that you eat only organic pasta, as it is the most pesticide laden food (rice pasta is best).

• If possible all nuts and seeds should be soaked in a jar in the fridge to wash of the phytic acid. Water should be drained daily.

• If you think you may be intolerant to grains - spend 2 weeks eating only buckwheat, rice, corn, and millet in place of your normal grains etc. After 2 weeks introduce small amounts of the grains you were eating previously one at a time, if you get worse than you are intolerant to that grain, and should cut it from your diet.

• Support your local organic farmers market, and lobby your local supermarket to stock more unprocessed locally produced grains.

You may think this advice is a little extreme, and you can’t live without your bread - but that may be the very thing that’s keeping you fat, or unwell

Find you and your families metabolic type, eat a variety of foods correct for your type. Try some different grains or new vegetables and fruit that are right for your metabolic type.

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