are the "5 deadly targets" Are you coming to take you? (Part 1: White Flour and White Rice)
There is a group of foods that most Americans love to eat and, in fact, eat several times a day. These foods have a few things in common. They are stripped of almost all nutrition. They are packed with calories and team up with each other to create foods that compromise the health and fitness of Americans.
Although the name may be new, these foods are very familiar to all of us. In fact, most of us eat the “White Deadly Five” every day, and usually more than once. Can you guess which foods are included in the “Five Deadly Targets” category?
They are:
White flour
White rice
white salt
White sugar
“White” or refined oils
With the event of the Industrial Revolution in the 1800s in Europe and America came the invention of more complicated and efficient devices for pulverizing wheat berries into fine white flour, polishing brown rice into white rice, and refining cane sugar. in white. sugar, which makes these common foods more palatable to Western taste buds.
Add white salt and refined “white” oils, and we have a total of “Five Deadly Whites.”
Who are the losers in this process of processing and refining? Are. White rice, white flour, and white sugar products may taste better for pampered taste buds, but they’re also lacking in nutrients.
What’s wrong with white rice, white flour, white sugar, white salt, and “white” or refined oils?
Let’s take a closer look at these common foods, starting with refined grains.
Americans love many different foods made from refined grains in the form of white flour products, white rice, quick oats, and grits. We have an emotional attachment to Pillsbury Dough Boy (ah-hoo) and fine, light white flour for breads, pastas, cakes, pizza dough, pies, cookies, pastries, and desserts of all kinds. Many of us love these products made with refined white flour even more than we love sugar-laden foods.
In addition, since World War II, the beans have been bleached, gassed, and colored until they become mere remains of their original form; and then roasted, toasted, and glazed with sugar; and embalmed in chemicals and preservatives; and put in a big box. We call these completely adulterated grains: cereals; And these cereals have as much nutrition as the carton that contains them.
The refining, pulverizing, sieving, cooking, and packaging of whole grains cause the loss of enzymes or the “life force” of the food, along with the loss of nutrients, including vitamins and minerals.
Again, who are the losers in this refinement process? Are.
Refined grains or chunked foods offer poor nutrition, leaving the body starving for good nutrition. Thus we overeat; and we overeat the wrong foods. Americans are often overfed and undernourished. Because? Because we eat too many processed, refined, and preserved foods that are low in nutrients and high in calories, high in fat, high in sugar, high in salt, and we eat too few of the foods that are high in nutrients and fiber. -rich.
Refined cereals do not contain fiber that acts as an intestinal broom to clean our intestines.
Refined grains are refined and preserved with chemicals; chemicals that we end up eating that are hard on our bodies.
Refined grains cause our bodies to produce excess mucus that collects in the nose, sinuses, throat, bronchial tubes, and lungs, causing us to sniff, puff, drain, and cough, often leading to colds. and more frequent respiratory problems. .
Refined grains deplete calcium from our bones, increasing our chances of getting osteoporosis.
Refined grains break down in our digestive system and are absorbed into the bloodstream too quickly. This alters blood sugar levels, exhausting the pancreas and/or adrenal glands, causing hypoglycemic and diabetic reactions. Refined grains are just as bad for people with diabetes as white sugar.
In fact, refined grains are simply bad for all of us, and we pay a heavy price for eating them: premature illness and premature death.
Is it worth risking the health and fitness of our bodies for white flour treats? Only you can answer that question for yourself, but be prepared to accept the consequences that will result from your answer.
Part II: White Salt
Part III: White Sugar
Part IV: “White” Processed Oils