White flour promotes nutritional deficiencies and chronic disease

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White flour promotes nutritional deficiencies and chronic disease JoAnn Guest

Mar 29, 2005 10:29 PST

 

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People simply can't get adequate nutrition by going to a grocery store,

loading up on healthy foods and chewing their way through groceries.

 

Given the nutritional profile of today's foods, it's physically

impossible for a human being to do so. To make matters worse, most

people don't eat optimum foods to begin with.

 

They eat foods that are " nutritionally depleted " .

 

They drink a lot of cow's milk, which actually has poor nutrition for

human beings given that it is designed for baby cows, not baby humans.

 

They eat a lot of red meat, which contains heart-damaging saturated

animal fats and lacks fiber.

 

They take cheap vitamins that offer synthetic forms of vitamins and

minerals rather than natural, organic forms.

 

People also engage in lifestyle habits that deplete the vitamins and

minerals they've managed to absorb from their foods.

 

These habits include the consumption of caffeine, soft drinks, tobacco,

white flour, added sugars, and other ingredients that actually " strip

nutrients " away from your body.

 

 

 

To top it off, they're subjected to " chronic stress " conditions like

work stress, environmental stress (breathing polluted air, drinking

polluted water), relationship stress, lack of sleep, lack of sunlight,

and so on.

 

This chronic stress actually 'accelerates' the " depletion " of nutrients

in the body, leaving people in a deeper state of nutritional deficiency.

 

 

So by the time you're done with all of that, the average American has

only a fraction of the nutrition they actually need for optimum health.

 

And that means they are operating at far less than the " health

potential " their body was designed for.

 

If they were able to get better nutrition and avoid the nutrient

depleting substances in their foods, imagine what state of health they

could achieve. Imagine how good their blood chemistry would be, the

level of energy they would have on a daily basis, how healthy they would

be and how long a life they would live free of chronic pain and free of

chronic disease.

 

This is the kind of life that you can achieve with nutrition (see

related ebook on nutrition). And it is exactly the life that I'm leading

right now through a proven strategy of nutrition and physical exercise.

 

So if you put all this together, you realize that the standard American

diet is a diet of chronic disease and death.

 

The diet that most people are following today in modern societies is a

diet that will kill them much sooner with far higher health care costs

and with far lower quality of life than if they were able to eat

*simpler* foods -- unprocessed, non-manufactured, and unrefined.

 

Our diet is the number one cause of disease in this country. The

American food supply is what's killing us, not our " genes " or bad luck

(as many doctors would have you mistakenly believe).

 

As a side note to all of this, it's interesting to look at the companies

that produce white flour and how they ship that white flour to cereal

companies, bread companies and other commercial users of the product.

 

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.

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.

 

And yet, many Americans are attempting to live off white flour because

they consume it at every single meal in alarming quantities. Then they

wonder why they suffer from chronic disease.

 

The fact is that white flour will (slowly) kill you.

 

It 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.

 

So don't make the mistake of thinking that nutrition simply means

calories.

 

Often, around the world, when you hear the term 'malnutrition', you're

shown images of thin, bony children who haven't had anything to eat.

 

But in fact, Americans look just like that underneath all the fat.

 

They are " malnourished " , they are diseased and they continue to suffer

from malnutrition caused by the consumption of " nutritionally depleted "

foods such as pancakes, white bread, candy bars, soft drinks, breakfast

cereals, pastries, processed foods, junk foods, snack foods, and many

other items.

 

This article is an excerpt from the book, The 7 Laws of Nutrition by

Mike Adams.

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Posted: Tue Mar 29, 2005 10:24 am

Post subject: AHA, ADA and ACS launch new great-sounding health

initiative

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AHA, ADA and ACS launch new great-sounding health initiative that avoids

the truth

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Three of the most influential health organizations -- the AHA, ADA and

ACS -- have launched a new four-step health initiative that makes for

great headlines but lacks any real substance. The first step of the new

initiative, for example, tells people to " Eat a healthy diet... " but

doesn't tell people what that means.

 

In order to appease food manufacturers, the soft drink industry, and

junk food makers (many of which actually help fund these health

organizations), the big three have left out the most important

information consumers really need to know in order to protect their

health.

 

Namely, that there are a handful of food ingredients called " metabolic

disruptors " that are responsible for the majority of " chronic disease "

in western societies.

 

 

 

These ingredients include white flour (promotes obesity and diabetes),

high-fructose corn syrup (also promotes obesity and diabetes),

hydrogenated oils (promotes heart disease),

sodium nitrite (causes leukemia and brain tumors),

MSG (causes obesity and nervous system disorders)

and aspartame (causes blidness, brain disorders and nerve damage), among

other ingredients.

 

In other words, the advice sounds great on paper, and of course it

advises everyone to go see their doctor, where prescription drugs can be

readily prescribed to " mask " the " symptoms " of disease actually caused

by " toxic " food ingredients.

 

That's no surprise, either: the AHA, ADA and ACS are partially funded by

pharmaceutical companies!

 

So under the guise of offering health advice to the American public,

these three organizations are, in reality, " witholding " critical

information from the public while herding people into doctors' offices

where they will be pumped full of prescription drugs that, in turn,

generate enormous profits for the very same companies that turn around

and donate money to these three organizations. Quite a racket, huh?

 

In fact, it is a racket, and while points #2 and #3 in the advice are

worthwhile -- be physically active and don't smoke -- there's nothing in

this advice that actually tells the truth about what causes disease or

what people can do to prevent it.

 

In fact, this advice primarily serves to make sure people remain

confused and keep on spending billions of dollars on high-priced

pharmaceuticals.

 

Telling the truth is simple: it's told right here on this website every

day. But the big disease organizations, remember, would go bankrupt if

their pet diseases were actually eliminated by people eating healthy for

a change.

 

Imagine: a world without diabetes, heart disease and cancer is just

right around the corner if people start choosing healthy foods tomorrow.

 

 

And that would spell the end of the AHA, ADA and ACS. You can bet that's

the very last thing these power-hungry organizations want to happen.

Without the diseases, they're history.

 

That's why I believe each of these three organizations will continue to

offer silly advice that never leads to actual cures or the prevention of

chronic disease. To do so would end their reign of power and leave their

employees and directors jobless and humbled.

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JoAnn Guest

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