REMEDIES: The Magic of Muesli (HEALTH, RECIPES, DIET, HERBS)

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The Magic of Muesli

by author Patrick Wright, PhD

 

More than 90 percent of all foods North Americans eat have been tampered

with in one way or another through chemical farming, processing,

refining and now genetic engineering. Accordingly, many nutrients that

are essential to the human body and contained in natural foods have been

removed, damaged or destroyed.

 

Not only are sugar and white flour products harmful to our bodies, but

so are all canned and processed foods with their additives and

preservatives. Even cooking vegetables generates substances harmful to

the body, as well as causes the loss of digestive enzymes. Therefore,

what we can expect from processed food is mainly obesity, disease and

high bills for medical care.

 

The vitamin B-complex, for example, which is most perfectly found in

whole grains, is practically non-existent in white bread and baked goods

made from white flour. The B-complex vitamins are largely removed in the

grain mills or destroyed by food processing.

 

Our ancestors ate a large variety of seeds and greens. Anthropologists

found 45 kinds of identifiable seeds encapsulated in clay in the Stone

Age cave of El Juyo in Spain. These seeds and greens completely

satisfied all nutritional requirements of the human body; our 21st

century bodies still require this Stone Age nutrition.

 

Making Muesli

 

The secret of food preparation is to enjoy as much as possible the

unlimited taste of nature. Muesli is an example of a basic food for

North Americans. The standard recipe is always the following: grind

about 50 grams of organic wheat, rye or triticale in your stone mill.

Soak the groats (crushed grains) at least half an hour in about half a

cup of spring water if the temperature is around 70 degrees F. Do not

soak longer than 10 hours. At lower temperatures, you might need a

minimum time of one hour. Pour the juice of half a lemon over the soaked

groats. Then grind an apple and mix it in immediately to prevent the

apple from turning brown.

 

You may want to add a teaspoon of bee pollen or some sprouted wheat. To

make your muesli more attractive to your eyes and more palatable to your

taste buds, enrich it with 100 grams or less of either boysenberries,

blueberries, blackberries, raspberries, loganberries or blue

elderberries. For added decoration, try pine nuts or hazelnuts,

sunflower seeds, sesame seeds, buckwheat or ground brazil nuts or walnuts.

 

Muesli Miracles

 

Wheat contains almost all nutrients required in the right amounts and in

the correct composition. By eating muesli made from freshly ground wheat

or other grains, we ingest all the vital substances they contain.

Unadulterated carbohydrates, amino acids, saturated and unsaturated

fatty acids, minerals, vitamins, trace elements, enzymes, aromatic

substances and other essential micronutrients contribute considerably to

our protection against a variety of degenerative diseases.

 

The B-complex vitamins in muesli also regenerate fat metabolism. They

take care that carbohydrates are transformed into carbon dioxide and

water and not into long-chain saturated fatty acids (SFAs). Those SFAs

form an impermeable coat which would replace a permeable coating of

essential fatty acids in our arteries and capillaries. The carbon

dioxide is exhaled and the water is eliminated.

 

For all those who start this program with clear indications of

degenerative diseases due to a long consumption of what we call the

" North American " diet, it is advisable to prepare and eat muesli both

morning and night. Within days, your digestion will improve. As soon as

digestion is regular, the stool gold-brown, neither hard nor soft and

free of foul odor, you can decide whether you want to continue eating

muesli at night or if you would prefer to eat only one ounce of grain in

the form of grouts or sprouts.

 

You won’t believe that this natural path to wellness is so simple. The

trace element iron will improve the quality of your blood and magnesium

will strengthen your muscles, in particular your heart. The vitamin

B-complex of raw wheat will take care of the regeneration of your body’s

cells, your nerves and your bones. What other food can do all of this

for you?

 

PDF Table: Sprouting Multiplies Vitamins (see website for live link to

pdf file)

 

 

Patrick Wright has taught at universities in four countries and

currently owns and manages his own nutrition company in San Rafael, CA.

 

Source: alive #214, August 2000

 

http://www.alive.com/243a1a2.php?subject_bread_cramb=220

 

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