Article: Refined Food - Even the Bugs Won't Eat It!

Refined Foods: Even the Bugs Won't Eat It!

What Appears to be More is Not More

White food, better known as refined carbohydrates was once a delicacy affordable only to the financially wealthy. However, financial wealth does not equate to a wealth of health.

Years ago, people considered brown bread and other unrefined carbohydrates poor man's food. Even the word refined appears to parallel wealth. Today, few people perceive brown bread to be poor mans' fare because of the greater cost per loaf of whole grain bread.

Heft a loaf of whole grain bread (not the pretender enriched brown bread found in general supermarkets) a loaf of white bread may have twice the slices but usually less than half the weight. What appears to be more is not more.

Bugs Won't Eat It

A primary reason for the development of refining wheat for white flour products is to establish a longer shelf life. Whole wheat flour left in sacks for long periods of time cause bugs to appear within it.

For bugs to survive, they need nutrients -- as we do. Refined, white flour is a poor home for bugs and a poor food for us because it doesn't contain nutrients or fiber.

It's time we take a closer look at carbohydrates to see where the wealth in them truly lies. Empty -- dead bread -- cannot sustain life. If bugs don't want refined carbohydrates, why should you?

Besides longer shelf life, profit is one of the main reasons for the refinement process. The refinement process increased the cost of the flour until the discovery that wheat germ rich in Vitamin E is lucrative as a food supplement. Wheat germ is also the main cause of rancidity.

Refinement removes the wheat germ from wheat. The Vitamin E is resold to you as an expensive food supplement as happens with beneficial fiber found in whole grains. In return, you receive bread that is a soft, pasty substance devoid of nutrients and fiber. It creates a sticky plaque on your teeth, intestines and blood vessels and may cause illness.

Enriched Food is Often a Poor Meal

White flour products aren't the only bleached foods. White sugar and white rice also fall into this category. Other than refined, we also see the word enriched printed on food labels. Understand that these products will not enrich you or your family -- only the company that offers them.

In their natural form, whole grains contain natural nutrients vital to our health. For example, cancer fighting agents called nitrilosides exist in most grains other than the hybrid wheat we use in America. Also, whole grains contain an abundance of vitamins and minerals.

The enrichment process removes the natural health-giving nutrients destroyed in the refining process and replaces them with synthetic, minute quantities of iron, calcium, B vitamins and Vitamin D.

Perhaps you don't mind having what is good and healthful stripped from your food. However, with refinement and bleaching there occurs an enrichment of hazardous chemicals, preservatives and bleach. One extremely toxic bleaching agent is chlorine dioxide that not only destroys Vitamin E but also forms a dangerous compound when combined with methionine; a growth amino acid.

Profits and the shelf life of white bread increase, while your immunity lowers when eating refined products containing mold retarding additives sodium propionate and calcium propionate. The preservative BHT and other suspect additives are also usually contained in bread products.

Do you wonder what the long - term cumulative effects are to your body from consuming these artificial chemicals and additives? Have you thought about the parallels of adulterated food and an ever increasing cancer rate? Article: Cancer: A Modern Day Scourge)

Discover Uncommon and Interesting Grains

Begin now to build your health and immunity by substituting white carbohydrates with whole grains. Whole grain flour, bread and cereal made from spelt, millet, quinoa, buckwheat, brown rice, etc., are excellent carbohydrate selections. These grains are highly nutritious and are a wonderful addition to your meals; especially for the millions of people with wheat allergies.

The bland taste of white food cannot compare to the hearty texture and delicious flavor of nitriloside rich grains. Visit a store that sells whole food and see for yourself the many substitutions to the toxic white foods you may be eating.

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