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Oh rats! Don’t take my wheat!
You can’t make this up, folks. Weekly, the media reports another beloved American food icon has been perverted into nothingness. We eat too much wheat, and because it’s been altered so drastically, our body intelligence doesn’t know what to do with it, and disease happens.
No one likes being told something they like is bad for them. Yet wheat has been implicated in acquiring Celiac Disease, inflammation, accelerated aging, cancer, depression, anxiety and poochy belly. What’s gone wrong with our wheat?
This’ll freak you out: Retired FDA head Dr. David Kessler said contemporary wheat, even “healthy” whole grain wheat, has addictive qualities that stimulate appetite, causing a vicious cycle that increases appetite and the impulse to eat more: addiction.
Einkorn was the first wheat cultivated. Over centuries, wheat’s been crossbred so fast and often our temple’s biology cannot stomach the “staff of life.” Today’s wheat is vastly different to ancient forms first introduced, plus it’s addictive.
From a digestive and immune perspective, our temple struggles with alien strains of wheat. Today’s high glycemic wheat-based foods can be disruptive to blood sugar, particularly when eaten in quantity. Wheat bread’s glycemic index is 72, while table sugar’s index is 59. Subsequently, the pancreas must pump out mucho insulin, which, in time, can lead to insulin resistance and “pancreatic exhaustion,” causing blood sugar to rise.
Alloxan, a byproduct of the flour bleaching process, makes flour clean and white. Alloxan can impact blood sugar because it creates colossal amounts of free radicals in pancreatic beta cells, thus destroying them. They’re technically not adding alloxan to the flour, although you’ll read misinformation on the Internet. Alloxan’s harmful effects on the pancreas are so severe the Textbook of Natural Medicine calls the chemical “a potent beta cell toxin,” yet our alleged friends, the FDA lap-dogs, allow big food companies to use it in processed foods.
For research, Alloxan is administered to lab rats to damage the insulin-producing islet cells of the pancreas for studying its toxic effect on Beta cells. Beta cells are the primary cell type in areas of your pancreas, which produces insulin. If they’re destroyed, diabetes can result. (Mercola.com)
The average American today eats 133 pounds of wheat flour annually. The food pyramid tells us to eat six to 11 servings a day. That’s whacked. Could it be that the Grain Foods Foundation, a trade and lobby group for the wheat industry, has ties to the drug industry?
Studies show you can help reverse the effects of alloxan with vitamin E. The Clinicians Handbook of Natural Healing says vitamin E protected lab rats from the harmful effects of alloxan. You’re not a lab rat, but you’re a mammal and vitamin E is worth adding to your supplements.
High-carbohydrate fruit includes apples, apricots, bananas, cantaloupe, peaches, pears, oranges, figs, grapes, kiwi, pineapples, plums, strawberries, blueberries, dates and raisins. Beans, lentils, dried peas and peanuts are sources of carbohydrates, as well as brown rice, bulgur, wheat berries, oatmeal, rye and quinoa. (LiveStrong.com) Eat more olive, unrefined coconut, avocado and tree nut oils. After 30 days, if you don’t feel mentally and physically better and have improved blood glucose readings, sue me. But I’m sure you’ll thank me instead.
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