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"When you eat grains, try to eat only whole grains. Be sure to read labels to confirm that foods are actually whole grain. þUse all-bran cereals for breakfast or mixed with plain yogurt as a snack. Add all-bran cereals to other cereals and to other foods whenever possible. þBoiled whole grains are best. Brown rice, oatmeal, quinoa, couscous, whole barley, barley grits, and barley flakes are good examples. There are many creative ways to prepare boiled grains. þTry to use legumes as often as possible. Take the time to learn the many ways to use these remarkable foods." - Michael T. Murray and Michael R. Lyon, Hunger Free Forever: The New Science of Appetite Control (Get the book.)

"Try these healthier alternatives to bleached white flour: • Spelt • Oat • Whole wheat • Unbleached Grains Whole grains are an essential part of a healthy plant-based diet. Refined grains, by contrast, are among the worst processed foods, adding calories and quickly digested sugars without much nutritional value. You should also keep these in glass jars in the pantry—they all make great foundations for easy, affordable meals. And again, buy exclusively organic ingredients whenever you can." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.)

"Choose whole grains and minimize the consumption of cereal grains or grain products Melvin Konner, co-author of The Paleolithic Prescription, stated in an article in the Washington Post called "Stone Age Soup" (February 13, 2001) that there is no reason grains shouldn't be a substantial part of our diet. The problem, however, is that "what we do with grains is refine them until there's no fiber, no vitamin and mineral content." The grains that we do eat in pasta, cereals, bread, and bagels are frequently high in gluten, which is found primarily in wheat and wheat-based products." - Garcia Oz, Sharyn Kolberg, The Healthy High-tech Body (Get the book.)

"Nearly a quarter of these additional calories come from added sugars (and most of that in the form of high-fructose corn syrup); roughly another quarter from added fat (most of it in the form of soybean oil); 46 percent of them from grains (mostly refined); and the few calories left (8 percent) from fruits and vegetables.* The overwhelming majority of the calories Americans have added to their diets since 1985—the 93 percent of them in the form of sugars, fats, and mostly refined grains—supply lots of energy but very little of anything else." - Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto (Get the book.)

"Similarly, most of us (except premenopausal women) can get plenty of iron from fortified grains. Too much iron can actually be bad for us because it may play a role in generating oxygen-free radicals. Beans, whole grains, and garden vegetables are the cornerstones of all these longevity diets. Sardinian shepherds take semolina flatbread into the pastures with them. Nicoyans eat corn tortillas at every meal. And whole grain is part of the Adventist diet." - Dan Buettner, The Blue Zones: Lessons for Living Longer From the People Who've Lived the Longest (Get the book.)

"Recent Australian research has shown, in fact, that it is not the pollen grains themselves that are causing asthma, but the combination of pollen grains and water. When wet, the pollen grain breaks open and releases even tinier particles that reach the air passages, and it is these that aggravate asthma. In dry weather the whole grain is more likely to be caught in the upper respiratory tract, the nose and throat, and cause hay fever instead of asthma. Asthmatics will know that not all plant species release pollen that causes problems." - Dr Ron Roberts, Asthma Controlled Naturally: Techniques That Work (Get the book.)

"Whole grains are a better choice because, unlike white or processed grains, they still have many of their nutrients intact. When you eat a whole grain, there are complementary minerals (chromium is one in particular) that help regulate your body's reaction to the sugar in the grain. These minerals don't allow the same rapid spike and drop in blood sugar that processed grains do, nor do they cause the same extreme surge of insulin in your blood stream. The Busy Person's Solution #3: Stop Eating Like a Japanese Competitive Eater! • Action ?" - Kevin Gianni and Annmarie Colameo, The Busy Person's Fitness Solution (Get the book.)

"And if you're just as confused about how to cook beans as you are about grains, there is a chart for that, too. Beans, unlike grains, need to be soaked overnight or at least six hours before cooking." - Jay Gordon, The ADD and ADHD Cure: The Natural Way to Treat Hyperactivity and Refocus Your Child (Get the book.)

"This long period of living on vegetables, fruit, and meat may account for the fact that reactions to vegetables, fruit, and meat are far less common than reactions to grains. Giving Up Casein Casein is one of the primary proteins in milk and all milk products-including cheese, cream, and butter-and it's the hardest of these proteins to break down. An insufficiency of the DPP4 enzyme results in only a partial breakdown of casein, creating a partial protein, or peptide. My friend Sid Baker, M.D." - Kenneth Bock, Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders (Get the book.)

"If you have celiac disease or are sensitive to wheat, rye, or other grains that contain gluten, use barley and barley extract cautiously. Carnitine Carnitine is a derivative of the amino acids lysine and methionine. It is involved in energy production and specifically assists with the oxidation of glucose. Several published scientific studies have shown that carnitine supplementation supports insulin sensitivity and optimizes blood glucose levels. Carnitine has also been shown to decrease fat levels in muscle." - Steven V. Joyal, What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Diabetes: An Innovative Program to Prevent, Treat, and Beat This Controllable Disease (Get the book.)

"You can also easily sprout grains and seeds yourself. Try adding new things to your salad like frozen peas and corn, very finely chopped onion, canned beans, snow pea pods, leftover cooked potato or sweet potato, leftover steamed vegetables, and fresh or dried fruits. The most critical mistake to avoid in salads is adding too many calories from oil or too much salt from a commercial salad dressing. At 120 calories a tablespoon, oil calories can add up fast. Try many of the delicious, healthy dressing and dip suggestions in this book or use a low-calorie, low-salt dressing." - Dr. Joel Fuhrman, Eat For Health: Lose Weight, Keep It Off, Look Younger, Live Longer (2 book set) (Get the book.) "If you are on a food budget, use lots of dried beans in your cooking and also sprout whole beans and grains for some of your vegetable needs. You can soak the whole beans in water overnight in a jar and rinse and drain the water out for the next few days, until you have the sprouts to use. If beans give you gas or bloating, it helps if you make sure you chew them very well. It takes some time for your digestive tract to learn how to digest them better, so you may have to start out with a smaller quantity and increase the amount gradually. Don't stop eating beans entirely." - Dr. Joel Fuhrman, Eat For Health: Lose Weight, Keep It Off, Look Younger, Live Longer (2 book set) (Get the book.) "The more coarsely ground grains are absorbed into the bloodstream more slowly and therefore curtail appetite better. Whole grain hot cereals are less processed than cold cereals and come up with better nutritional scores. They can be soaked in water overnight so you do not have to cook them in the morning. For example, if you throw some rolled oats in a covered container with raisins and water, it will be soft and ready to eat the next morning, either cold or quickly warmed." - Dr. Joel Fuhrman, Eat For Health: Lose Weight, Keep It Off, Look Younger, Live Longer (2 book set) (Get the book.) "This may be an opportunity for you to explore some new vegetables, beans, and grains. Braised Bok Choy, which is paired with a Spiced Tilapia, is a simple, nutrient-dense recipe that may expose you to new flavors. At the start, you will be eating less red meat and cheese and the animal products you do eat will be lower in fat. You will find that interesting new flavors replace salt and sugar. Low- or no-salt versions of canned beans, canned tomato products and other ingredients are specified. (See my Purchasing Guidelines, page 90." - Dr. Joel Fuhrman, Eat For Health: Lose Weight, Keep It Off, Look Younger, Live Longer (2 book set) (Get the book.)

"Based on clinical experience, as well as world research, the number one culprit is the huge increase in intake of processed white sugar, white bread, and refined carbohydrates as distinct from complex natural carbohydrates such as beans and grains. The breakthrough in understanding diabetes was found in Dr. Thomas Cleave's 1975 book, The Saccharine Disease: Conditions Caused by the Taking of Refined Carbohydrates such as Sugar and White Flour showing that within twenty years after processed white flour and sugar are introduced into a culture, there is an "outbreak" of diabetes." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.)

"All vegetables, fruits, and grains have been ranked on a scale called the Glycemic Index, which rates them according to how quickly they are digested, and according to how many carb calories they dump into the system. This rating system should be your guide to avoiding hypoglycemia. The Glycemic Index of the Relatively High-Glycemic Foods Foods are rated from best Glycemic Index to worst 1. Beans. 2. Low-starch vegetables with peels intact. 3. Low-starch, peeled vegetables. 4. Moderate-climate fruits, such as apples or pears. 5. Nonrefined, bran cereals. 6." - Kenneth Bock, Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders (Get the book.) "Gluten is not present in the other food grains: rice, corn, and millet. Some nutritionists believe that it is only moderately present in oats, and food scientists are currently trying to develop a gluten-free type of oats. Gluten, like most of the other food components that cause food reactions, is a protein, and it has a sticky, gluey texture that helps give wheat products the ability to bake properly. Unfortunately, though, a large percentage of the American population has a deficiency of the particular enzyme that breaks down gluten. This enzyme is called DPP4." - Kenneth Bock, Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders (Get the book.) "It consisted of eliminating most grains, along with milk products. It sounded rather simplistic to Lynne. But what did she have to lose? ine ^nnaren y She tried it. A few days later she woke up-and it was morning. Paul had slept through the night. The next day, while they were riding on a bus, Paul looked at Lynne-right in her eyes-and said, "I hungry." He was there. "Paul? What? Hungry?" He was gone again. Lynne turbocharged her efforts to find a medical treatment for autism, and discovered a nurse in New Jersey who knew more about the disease than anyone Lynne had ever met. " - Kenneth Bock, Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders (Get the book.)

"Eat more grains, greens, beans and berries as these prebiotic foods may offer a whole array of healthy benefits. You might not find raw, green bananas appealing for dinner, but your microflora do. Raw, green bananas are a great source of resistant starch. Ripe bananas do not have the same amount of resistant starch. Resistant starch is an area of prebiotics that is gaining interest within the research world. Preliminary results suggest that resistant starch may increase the ability of probiotics to survive through the stomach." - Allison Tannis, Probiotic Rescue: How You can use Probiotics to Fight Cholesterol, Cancer, Superbugs, Digestive Complaints and More (Get the book.)

"New Morning makes honey grahams with organic grains and no hydrogenated oils. For a great school-day snack, put two full graham crackers and some organic tamari almonds in a brown waxed-paper baggie. You can find New Morning products at www.mannaharvest.net. School-Day Snacks. You can mix and match the following organic ingredients according to your child's preference. Put them in Natural Value unbleached wax paper baggies, which you can buy at most health-food stores and on the web at www .naturalvalue.com/Pages/Nonfoods.html, www.amazonnatural grocers.com, or, www.organickingdom.com." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.)

"I also encouraged Jennifer's mother to feed her more fresh vegetables, fruits, and lean protein and to avoid salt, cheese, and grains. I knew that the amount we had prescribed wasn't toxic, because thirty years ago, public health policy in the Netherlands had mandated that all newborns receive 2,000 IU of vitamin D (in cod liver oil) to prevent rickets, and there were no observations of any toxicity. How did Jennifer do? Her first-visit scores and notes looked like this: ?0.375-65-0-15-6 (function, pain, fatigue, health perception, sleep) ?" - James Dowd and Diane Stafford, The Vitamin D Cure (Get the book.)

"The surveys focused on one town the ministry considered representative of the region and measured how many grams of each of 20 foodstuffs people ate—things like dairy products, grains, tubers, and fruits. In 1969 the survey focused on Veintisiete de Abril (Don Faustino's town) and in 1978, the survey took place in La Mansion—two miles from the Dorati Lodge! I had another source. In preparation for the trip, I had found a University of California Press report from 1958 entitled Nicoya: A Cultural Geography by a Berkeley anthropologist named Philip Wagner. I had a photocopy of it in my luggage." - Dan Buettner, The Blue Zones: Lessons for Living Longer From the People Who've Lived the Longest (Get the book.) "Some Adventists believe that if you eat a big breakfast with the right ingredients (whole grains, fruits, milk, nut butter), you'll fuel your body for most of the day and have fewer cravings for sugary or fatty foods. LESSON THREE: PLANT SLANT Avoid meat and processed foods Most centenarians in Nicoya, Sardinia, and Okinawa never had the chance to develop the habit of eating processed foods, soda pop, or salty snacks. For much of their lives, they ate small portions of unprocessed foods. They avoided meat?or more accurately, didn't have access to it—except on rare occasions." - Dan Buettner, The Blue Zones: Lessons for Living Longer From the People Who've Lived the Longest (Get the book.)

"I am not suggesting eating raw meats but rather fruits, vegetables, nuts, seeds, and grains. There are certain raw foods that are either nutritious to the liver or will help detoxify the body in other ways. Making a point to include these foods into your diet can be very helpful. Here is a list of foods to include: ?Raw beets: stimulate the function of liver cells and encourage bile flow ?Cilantro: studies have shown it to be effective at chelating mercury and lead from the body ?Parsley: a natural diuretic, helps relieve congestion of the kidneys ?" - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.) "Fresh-squeezed lemon juice: alkalizing to the body, stimulating bile production and cleansing the kidneys Why Raw Foods Trump Cooked Foods Since meats are generally prepared at a temperature of at least 350 degrees and grains at 325 degrees or more, wholesale enzyme destruction occurs when these foods are cooked. Any processed foods, even uncooked, are devoid of enzymes due to the heat applied in the refining process. Freezing and refrigeration also have some effect on enzymes but result in only about a 30 percent loss." - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.) "Most of our grains are processed to the point that they are devoid of the life-promoting benefits. The majority of doctors now agree that we can all benefit from daily nutritional supplementation, at the very least a multivitamin-mineral 125 complex. For those of us who are hoping to achieve optimal health, a simple mass market multivitamin will not offer the needed nutrients for that goal. In fact, surveys in North America show that the diets of more than 60 percent of people are deficient in one or more of the essential nutrients." - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.)

"Complex carbohydrates such as beans, grains, and vegetables are actually valuable in the healing of diabetes. An interesting cultural study conducted fifty years ago that makes this point is that of the O'Odham people of Southern Arizona, historically known as the River Pima and Papago, who had almost no diabetes. Now they have one of the highest levels of diabetes in the world—about 51 percent. Before the introduction of a processed diet, they were involved in desert farming and wild food gathering, which included complex carbohydrates and insulin-laden foods that protected them." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.)

"Sometimes, for those with an allergy to grains, they may feel 'drunk' after eating cereal or certain types of baked goods." According to 2006 data from the National Institute of Mental Health, 40 million American adults are affected annually by anxiety disorders. Anxiety disorders include panic disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, posttraumatic stress disorder, generalized anxiety disorder and social phobia, as well as other specific phobias. They often co-occur with other mental and/or physical conditions." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"Cholesterol does not occur in plants; therefore, your diet should consist mainly of fresh fruits and vegetables, nuts, grains, beans and seeds. 2. Increase good fat consumption. Polyunsaturated fatty acids found in plants and some animals, e.g., fish, support healthy inflammation in the body and may reduce inflammation associated with lesion development. 3. Increase fiber intake. This will help inhibit the uptake of cholesterol from the intestinal tract. About 95% of cholesterol in bile acids is re-absorbed in the intestinal tract and recycled. 4. Inhibit liver synthesis of cholesterol." - Allison Tannis, Probiotic Rescue: How You can use Probiotics to Fight Cholesterol, Cancer, Superbugs, Digestive Complaints and More (Get the book.)

"You eat too many grains and cheese, which are acid-producing. ?You don't get enough magnesium-rich foods. ?You don't get enough potassium-rich foods. Neutralizing the Acid The more acid you produce, the more potassium, magnesium, and calcium you need to buffer the acid. The potential effects of too 22 much acid on your body are a bit scary. Failure to eat enough antacid-producing fruits and vegetables high in potassium, magnesium, and calcium means that you end up borrowing from your body's vault of minerals and protein in your bones, muscles, and joints." - James Dowd and Diane Stafford, The Vitamin D Cure (Get the book.)

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