Wednesday, September 19, 2007

100% whole wheat and whole grain products

100% whole wheat and whole grain products
The “baseline diet” can and should contain a wide variety of bread products with one condition: They must be made from 100% whole grains (and the label must say,
“100% whole wheat” or “100% whole grain” as the first ingredient). White bread and
anything made out of white flour is not allowed in any quantity on this program (except the occasional planned “cheat meal”). If you’re particularly carb-sensitive,
then bread – even the whole wheat variety – is one of the first things to go.


A small handful of people – usually one in 200, depending on what source you listen
to – have sensitivity to the gluten in the wheat. Gluten is a protein found in wheat
products and, much like lactose intolerance from dairy products, gluten intolerance
can cause digestive difficulties and bloating in certain individuals. Most competitive bodybuilders drop out all the pasta and bread products for the 12-16 week dieting period before a contest, then usually put them back in for off-season maintenance.

On very strict fat loss diets, wheat and bread products are usually eliminated
completely. Generally speaking, however, 100% whole wheat and other whole grains
are perfectly acceptable additions to a healthy diet for long term body composition
control, it just depends on how “strict” you want or need to be with your nutrition.

Rivers, Lakes, Oceans Becoming Polluted

Not only does the air we breathe fill our bodies with poisons, but our water is so filthy that more strong toxic chemicals are used to make it “fit?” to drink. An inorganic mineral called chlorine is used to supposedly help purify our drinking water . . . along with alum and many other inorganic minerals. Remember, your body can only absorb organic minerals from living plant matter. Any inorganic minerals must be eliminated from the body by the Vital Force. If it’s below normal and can’t keep up the cleansing, then these inorganic chemicals become lodged in tissues
and joints to cause future problems!

Lake Erie is critically ill, and the symptoms are there for all to see. Beaches that once were gleaming with white sand are covered with odorous green slime. The lake’s
prize fish – walleye, blue pike, yellow perch, and whitefish – have all but disappeared. One Cleveland health student wrote to tell us that “Our lake is a
wastebasket for factories. It is unfit for fish to live in, and for people to drink and use, because it’s loaded with toxic, deadly chemicals.” The major reason for the lake’s terrible pollution is that most of its larger tributaries have been turned into little more than open sewers. Detroit alone pours 1.5 million gallons of waste a day into the Detroit River, which flows directly into Lake Erie.

The Cuyahoga River, which runs through the middle of Akron and Cleveland before spilling into the lake, is so clogged with logs, rotted pilings, chemicals, oil slicks and old tires that it has been labeled the filthiest water in America. Added to the scum and stench are thousands of dead fish that were smothered by the nasty pollution. On a cruise up the Buffalo River last summer, Buffalo’s mayor glided past islands of detergents, pools of grain dust and a general rainbow of dirty industrial discharge.

“The odor was overpowering. Unbelievable! Disgusting!” he concluded. Hopefully, the Buffalo and Cuyahoga River environmental problems have now been corrected!
We are citing only one water supply among the many that are completely contaminated. All across America we find water supplies polluted. We use lots of water
and it’s so heavily chemicalized that it isn’t fit to use.