Health Section
- Details
- Parent Category: Earth Therapy
- Category: Whole Foods
- Hits: 11563
Sweet Stress
Let us see how sugar volumes in the body are affected based on refined and unrefined foods. The picture below shows how, from the intestine, digested glucose moves into the blood and how insulin, from the blood, is moved into the muscle and other cells.
Unrefined Foods:
When we eat fiber rich unrefined foods, most of the glucose is trapped in the fiber and so, over a period of time, glucose moves only slowly into the blood. Therefore, only a little insulin needs to be given out by pancreas, thereby putting the body under less strain.
Refined Foods:
Look what happens when we eat refined foods which have no fiber. Glucose molecules rush into the blood and causes panic in the system. The pancreas now needs to secrete lots of insulin molecules to handle a crowded situation. Eating refined foods frequently causes overwork for the pancreas and slowly it stops to produce insulin molecules. This causes high levels of glucose in blood and is called diabetes.
Please click here to continue reading
- Details
- Parent Category: Earth Therapy
- Category: Whole Foods
- Hits: 10070
Two Important Health Principles
Two important health rules concerning diet are
1. Eat only whole foods and not refined foods. We have already discussed earlier how refined foods cause diseases by stressing our body. Click here to read the earlier information.
2. Eating different grains prevents diseases instead of eating only one type of grain. This routine, stereo-typed way of eating is a major problem. We prefer to stick to one type of grain instead of eating different varieties. Nature is abundant with varieties of grains and we should take advantage of that fact. Instead, we abuse our body with one type of food causing imbalance in our body.
Eating only one type of grain or beans only leads to variety of diseases.
Change your eating lifestyle by including all varieties of foods available. From other sites you can get information regarding how different foods gives different nutrients. Click here to read about the Nutrition content of Amaranth, Buckwheat, Millet, Oats and Quinoa.
Eating different beans are good for health too. Click here to read about the Nutrition content of Beans: Adzuki, Black Eye Peas, Black Turtle, Garbanzo, and Great Northern beans.
We discussed with a lot of healthy villagers in India and got extremely valuable information regarding eating habits. Traditionally, they ate different grains, fruits, beans (legumes) and vegetables based on availability in different seasons. They did not just eat rice or wheat. They said the urban people or the rich were the ones who ate only one type of grain. They remarked that in the past 40 years, even villagers have adapted the urban lifestyle and they see an increase in health problems among the villagers. We understand this information is true in other parts of the world too.
Please click here to continue
- Details
- Parent Category: Earth Therapy
- Category: Whole Foods
- Hits: 17299
Regular Earth Cleansing
To nourish the body and to keep it clean, whole grains and other fiber rich foods should be eaten regularly. Understand the different between whole grains and refined grains.
Whole Grains
Common Types of Whole Grains:
•Brown rice •Oats •Barley •Corn •Whole wheat •Wild rice
Less Common Types of Whole Grains:
•Amaranth •Buckwheat or kasha •Kamut •Millet •Quinoa •Whole rye
click to watch the whole video about diabetes and whole grains
What Are Whole Grains?
Whole grain foods contain all three parts of the grain: the bran, the endosperm and the germ.
• The outer bran layer is full of fiber, B vitamins, 50 to 80 percent of the grain’s minerals, and other health-promoting plant substances called phyto-chemicals.
• The large endosperm portion is full of complex carbohydrates, protein, and smaller amounts of B vitamins.
• The third part is the germ, which is full of B vitamins, vitamin E, trace minerals, and healthy unsaturated fats, phyto-chemicals and antioxidants.
Please click "Next" on the right side to continue reading.
https://www.grain.org/article/entries/34-hybrid-rice-in-asia-an-unfolding-threat
- Details
- Parent Category: Earth Therapy
- Category: Whole Foods
- Hits: 11452
Whole Vs Refined Grains
Refined foods not only are devoid of nutrients, but when eaten will use our body nutrients and weaken our system. First look at this graph which shows how different nutrients are lost while refining foods.
Due to refining nutrients are lost. Click here
to read Nutritional Content of Whole Grains VS Their Refined Flours for more information from another site.
Enriched foods.
It is common to find in the market, enriched foods like bread , pasta, etc with added nutrients and so called as enriched foods. For enrichment, nutrients like iron, thiamin and riboflavin are added to foods. We consider enrichment is also not healthy because enrichment amounts of nutrients are not only excessive in quantity and out of balance (proportion) from the rest of the nutrients but also they enriched nutrients and are in un-natural form.
Please click here to continue reading
- Details
- Parent Category: Earth Therapy
- Category: Whole Foods
- Hits: 6540
Whole Grains
Why whole grains?
Whole grains are power-packed with fiber, vitamins, minerals, antioxidants and phyto-chemicals - plant compounds that help reduce the risk of many chronic diseases and ailments.
Secondly, consuming a diet rich in whole grains has been associated with reducing one's risk of metabolic syndrome, type 2 diabetes and heart disease.
Metabolic syndrome is a condition marked by a combination of abdominal obesity, high blood pressure, poor blood circulation, low HDL "good" cholesterol and high blood fats, all of which lead to a higher risk for type 2 diabetes and heart disease.
Refined Foods & Disease
There are two reasons. First is that the fiber is lost and so un-available for toxins to be excreted from the body. Secondly, through refining, nutrients are lost , which we will discuss in the next few pages.
Whole Foods Detoxify
As we have already discussed the importance of the liver as a detoxifying organ, we will now briefly mention that the liver manages to throw the fat soluble toxins out of the body through the secretion of bile. The bile with the combined action of the fiber present in your diet throws the fat-soluble toxins out of the body through the feces (stools). This is where fiber plays an important role.
The detoxified non-water soluble (fat soluble) toxins through bile reach the intestines. Here bile is re-absorbed but the toxins are not reabsorbed if fiber is present in the food. If fiber is not present then the toxins are reabsorbed and go back into the body. Hence, eating fiber helps in detoxification.
Please click here to continue reading
