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"Refined white flour products have no place in your SuperFoods weight loss plan. You'll find it in the flour sack you've got in the pantry and in many common foods like cookies, crackers, baked goods, doughnuts, and so on. You'll be delighted to find that these days there are excellent tasty alternatives to products containing refined white flour. If you bake, whole grain pastry or regular flour combined in the appropriate amounts with King Authur's unbleached flour are excellent alternatives. If it's the white color you're going for try "white" whole wheat flour." - Wendy Bazilian, DRPH, MA, RD, Steven Pratt, MD, Kathy Matthews, Superfoods Rx Diet: Lose Weight with the Power of SuperNutrients (Get the book.)

"In 1890, the industrious Swiss invented a steel-roller mill that allowed commercial production of flour minus its oil-rich germ and fiber-rich bran, rendering white flour almost completely devoid of micronutrients. Its introduction fired the first warning shot that manipulating our food supply could have disastrous consequences on our genes and our destiny. Unfortunately, the shot wasn't heard until the 1920s, when diseases caused by vitamin deficiencies, notably of B vitamins, began killing millions of Americans whose diet contained a lot of white flour. I repeat, millions!" - Dr. Steven R. Gundry, Dr. Gundry's Diet Evolution: Turn Off the Genes That Are Killing You - And Your Waistline - And Drop the Weight for Good (Get the book.) "We loved our white flour so much that we wanted it at any cost. Grain products have been a major food source, seemingly without considerable problems for the last 10,000 years, so why did white flour and other highly processed grains initiate the rule of twenty years? Unfortunately, once finely ground and processed, grains can be rapidly digested and assimilated into the bloodstream as sugar-and do so at least as quickly if not more so than table sugar." - Dr. Steven R. Gundry, Dr. Gundry's Diet Evolution: Turn Off the Genes That Are Killing You - And Your Waistline - And Drop the Weight for Good (Get the book.)

"In November 2000, I learned about the four deadly whites: white flour, white sugar, salt and dairy, as well as the dangers of meat. It was much too hard to give up all at once, so I started by just giving up salt. These five foods cause or contribute to over 90% of all physical problems experienced by most Americans today. I also began the popular blood type diet. In December 2000, I eliminated white flour and used only grains acceptable for Blood Type A. In January 2001, I eliminated sugar." - Susan E. Schenck, The Live Food Factor: The Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate Diet for Body, Mind, Spirit & Planet (Get the book.)

"This diabetogenic personal and world lifestyle and diet includes on the level of individual responsibility: a diet high in refined carbohydrates such as white sugar and white flour; high amounts of cooked animal saturated fats; trans-fatty acids produced from cooking (and especially frying oils at high temperatures); low-fiber food; coffee and caffeinated beverages; smoking; a lifestyle devoid of love and exercise; high stress; watching TV programming." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.) "He found that in every culture in which there was an outbreak of Type-2 diabetes, the disease occurred approximately twenty years after white sugar and white flour were introduced. That's a very clear statement. Although it is commonly thought that diabetes is a blood sugar imbalance, it is actually a metabolic disorder that affects protein metabolism, fat metabolism, and carbohydrate metabolism. This metabolic imbalance is interwoven with diet and lifestyle characterized by obesity and lack of exercise, combined with high-processed-sugar, high-animal-fat, and low-fiber foods." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.) "GLYCEMIC INDEX AND INSULIN INDEX A high-glycemic diet is one that includes any white sugar, any white flour, white rice, honey, maple syrup, alcohol, coffee, wheat, any junk food, and most fruit (some fruit, such as berries and cherries, is moderate to low on the glycemic index). A high-glycemic diet also includes cooked beets and carrots, rutabaga, summer squash, cooked yams, pumpkin, parsnips, white potatoes, apricots, figs, grapes, raisins, melons, mangos, bananas, papaya, pears, peaches, plums, pineapple, kiwi, sapote, cherimoya, rambutian, durian, dates, and dried fruits." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.)

"Avoid white flour, white rice, processed breakfast cereals, and sugar or other sweeteners. If using pasta occasionally, use whole wheat, brown rice, bean, or lentil pasta, not white flour pasta. daunting at first, since developing new habits and new taste preferences takes time. But as you begin to feel better and regain your youthful vigor, your desire and ability to do what is necessary to totally protect yourself from heart disease and stroke will grow by leaps and bounds. Dear Dr. fukrmaM/, The results of the Bat to Live program are beyond my wildest dreams." - Dr. Joel Fuhrman, Cholesterol Protection for Life, New Expanded Edition (Get the book.)

"One easy way to do this is to simply reduce your white flour intake. Avoid bread, crackers, bagels, and other baked goods. Dig deep for the will power that I know you all have. Use that sense of self direction to get that body moving. If you're not one to walk or run on the treadmill, but you do love to jump rope, then do it. For as little as one minute a day to start. Or, if you love to dance, then dance. There are so many things to do, just get yourself up and find the one that appeals to you." - Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D., The Sinatra Solution Metabolic Cardiology (Get the book.)

"Even if you didn't know the particular detriments of each ingredient, taking the time to read that it's main ingredients are white flour and sugar, and that the rest of the list is lengthy, would tell you to leave it on the shelf. When looking at labels, we also need to be aware of sodium levels. A lot of sodium is "hidden" in processed foods from spaghetti sauce to canned soup to frozen dinners. Obviously, if you see the word "salt" on a food label, you know salt is in the product. But baking soda and Monosodium glutamate (MSG) contain sodium, too." - Dr. Joel Fuhrman, Eat For Health: Lose Weight, Keep It Off, Look Younger, Live Longer (2 book set) (Get the book.)

"This plus white flour, having lost most of its vitamins and minerals, results in a diet that truly is destroyed before people ever get started, and then this sets them up for chronic fatigue syndrome." The B complex vitamins are critical. "Get one that has at least 25 milligrams of B complex, selenium, zinc, chromium, copper," Dr. Teitelbaum says. "If your iron is low, treat that. The lousy diet decreases the immune function with this disease, so bugs that most people wouldn't get, like Candida overgrowth, parasites, abnormal bacteria growing in the bowel, are common." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"Foods such as fatty meats, white flour, sugar, and dairy products can clog channels of elimination. There are also foods that build (make us stronger and more resilient), those that cleanse (relieve the toxic burden), and those that both cleanse and build. Proteins, such as meat and eggs, are the major builders. Most fruits are aggressive cleansers, while vegetables have both a cleansing and building effect on the body. Ideally, a detoxification diet will feature cleansing foods but contain enough of the building ones to prevent undue discomfort brought on by too rapid a release of toxins." - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.)

"Keys made his initial observations, the farmers and laborers he studied ate whole grains, including a few whole grain pastas, because at that time the white flour options were more expensive. From the research conducted since then, we know that people who follow traditional Mediterranean diets tend to: þEat an abundance of plant foods, including fruits, vegetables, beans, whole grains, and nuts. þEat fish often but go lighter on meat. þHave a low to moderate intake of dairy products, mostly cheese and yogurt. þDrink alcohol in moderation, usually wine." - Elaine Magee, Food Synergy: Unleash Hundreds of Powerful Healing Food Combinations to Fight Disease and Live Well (Get the book.) "A quick whirl in the food processor will render it almost as fine as white flour. Toast oats for added flavor. Toasted oats can be added to trail mix or sprinkled on top of yogurt, frozen yogurt, or fresh fruit. In cookie dough, toasted oats make a great lower-fat replacement for a portion of the nuts. To toast oats: Add about 1/2 cup of quick or old-fashioned oats to a nonstick skillet coated lightly with canola-oil cooking spray. Spray the tops lightly, too, if desired. Keep stirring the oats gently over medium-high heat as they lightly brown, about 3 minutes." - Elaine Magee, Food Synergy: Unleash Hundreds of Powerful Healing Food Combinations to Fight Disease and Live Well (Get the book.)

"Cleave wrote: "With the greater availability of sugar and white flour, the consumption of the former substance amongst Canadian Eskimos has now risen to over 100 lb. per head per year and, with the expiring of the twenty-year incubation period already discussed, diabetes is now commonly occurring amongst them." Evidence from studies in India of rural and urban groups of the same culture showed their diabetes incidence being significantly higher in the urban setting, with its much higher consumption of refined carbohydrates." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.)

"Grain products have been a major food source, seemingly without considerable problems for the last 10,000 years, so why did white flour and other highly processed grains initiate the rule of twenty years? Unfortunately, once finely ground and processed, grains can be rapidly digested and assimilated into the bloodstream as sugar-and do so at least as quickly if not more so than table sugar. This phenomenon has prompted a host of glycemic index and glycemic load tables, which quantify how fast a certain food enters the bloodstream relative to a sip of sugar water or a piece of white bread." - Dr. Steven R. Gundry, Dr. Gundry's Diet Evolution: Turn Off the Genes That Are Killing You - And Your Waistline - And Drop the Weight for Good (Get the book.)

"You want to avoid foods whose first few ingredients contain white flour (called wheat flour) and any type of sweetener, such as corn syrup. Ingredients are listed on the label according to quantity, in descending order based on weight (from most to least). As a general rule of thumb, if the list of ingredients is long and you cannot pronounce most of them, there are probably a lot of chemical additives in the product, and you're risking your health by eating it." - Dr. Joel Fuhrman, Eat For Health: Lose Weight, Keep It Off, Look Younger, Live Longer (2 book set) (Get the book.) "Four Levels of Nutritional Excellence In Phase One, you will learn to eliminate fried foods and make substitutions for low-nutrient foods, such as ice cream, chips, candy, and white flour products. You will also eliminate foods like cheese and butter that are high in saturated fats, and your cooking techniques will use a minimal amount of oil. Salt is also significantly reduced. The foods and recipes are designed to taste good without salt; nevertheless, allow time for your taste buds to regain their sensitivity to salt." - Dr. Joel Fuhrman, Eat For Health: Lose Weight, Keep It Off, Look Younger, Live Longer (2 book set) (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.) "Walnut Chocolate Chip Cookies Preparation time: 12 minutes Cooking time: 10 to 12 minutes 1 Y> cups unbleached white flour 34 teaspoon baking powder Yi teaspoon salt 3/4 cup trans-fats-free margarine M cup unrefined white sugar 1 Yi teaspoons vanilla extract 1 egg 1 cup rolled oats 3/4 cup chocolate chips 3/4 cup chopped walnuts Preheat oven to 375°F. Sift together the flour, baking powder, and salt. In the bowl of an electric mixer, combine the margarine, sugar, and vanilla. Beat on medium for 2 minutes, or until creamy." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.)

"For example, processing of whole wheat to white flour causes an 82 percent magnesium loss. • High-fat diets generate soaps in the gut that wash out the magnesium in food. • We take in too much calcium and too little magnesium, causing a mineral imbalance. Finland has the highest amount of calcium to magnesium in the diet—a 4 to 1 ratio—and the United States follows close behind. The Scandinavian country ranks first in the world in sudden death from heart attack and stroke among young to middle-aged men. Medical researchers believe a low magnesium intake has something to do with it." - Stephen Sinatra, M.D. and James C., M.D. Roberts, Reverse Heart Disease Now: Stop Deadly Cardiovascular Plaque Before It's Too Late (Get the book.) "Processed carbohydrate sources, such as refined cereals, cookies, chips, crackers, pasta, bread, and cake mixes made from white flour, instant mashed potatoes, gelatin, and pudding mixes • All oils with the exception of walnut, almond, extra-virgin olive oil, and fish oils • All sweeteners (including artificial sweeteners) with the exception of a dab of pure honey and the supplement stevia As you discard the bad, you'll want to substitute with the good: • If you feel a desire to drink milk, choose organic skim milk." - Stephen Sinatra, M.D. and James C., M.D. Roberts, Reverse Heart Disease Now: Stop Deadly Cardiovascular Plaque Before It's Too Late (Get the book.)

"Overeating usually leads to intestinal congestion, the proliferation of destructive bacteria and yeast, as well as cravings for "energizing, " which really means energy-depleting, foods and beverages such as sugar, sweets, white flour products, potato chips, chocolate, coffee, tea, and soft drinks. Constant cravings for any of these foods or beverages indicate cellular starvation. Such starvation at the cellular level may force the weakest cells in the body to undergo genetic mutation." - Andreas Moritz, Cancer Is Not A Disease - It's A Survival Mechanism (Get the book.)

"Inflammation results from the standard American diet composed of meat, dairy products, white flour, sugar, and few vegetables, fruits, beans, whole grains and fish, as well as the chronically high levels of stress many people endure. The herbs in Zyflamend appear to balance and harmonize competing enzyme systems in the body such as COX-1 and COX-2 (cyclooxygenases 1 and 2) and the various lipoxygenase enzymes. Drugs like Vioxx and Celebrex were once thought to be miracles because they super-selectively inhibited COX-2, thought to be responsible for inflammation." - Freedom Press, Natural Cancer Cures: The Definitive Guide to Using Dietary Supplements to Fight and Prevent Cancer (Get the book.)

"Refined carbohydrates are white flour, white rice and sugar. Honey, stevia or pure maple syrup may be used to sweeten things without negative consequences. Eating excessive animal protein and fat can cause inflammation and constipation. Did you know? Our large and small intestines are about four to five times our height. The intestinal tract is approximately 25 feet long. The small intestine makes and receives enzymes which aid in digestion. It absorbs nutrients into the blood stream. The large intestine is bigger than the small intestine. It absorbs water and propels waste out of the body." - Heather Caruso, Your Drug-Free Guide to Digestive Health (Get the book.) "Refined flours such as white flour and sugars are high glycemic, which means they flip into a sugar quickly in the blood stream. They also feed bad bacteria in the gut. Constipation may cause some residual build up of stool along the intestinal canal. Stools actually are passed between this debris and are not properly absorbed. They may be loose and contain food particles. Diagnostic tools Medical doctors use a number of tests to determine the cause of irritable bowel syndrome. They use a barium enema, colonoscopy, sigmoidoscopy and stool exam to detect blood, bacteria or parasites." - Heather Caruso, Your Drug-Free Guide to Digestive Health (Get the book.) "Refined products such as sugar and white flour contribute to poor bowel function, blood sugar instability and feed microbes in the body (parasites, viruses, bacteria and fungus). v. Artificial flavourings, colours and additives are chemicals that add toxins to the body. vi. Red meat, beef, pork and shellfish are all proteins that add to inflammation. Pork is said to have many microbes, parasites and viruses. Shellfish are bottom feeders and not appropriate for a cleansing diet. vii. Caffeinated drinks such as coffee, black tea and colas rob the body of nutrients and water." - Heather Caruso, Your Drug-Free Guide to Digestive Health (Get the book.)

"Do not eat white flour products. If you're using bread and pasta, use limited amounts, not more than one serving per day and, of course, make sure it is 100 percent whole grain. 11. Limit your consumption of oil to one tablespoon daily. Oil is a fattening, low-nutrient food. If you eat something cooked with oil, make sure you do not use oil on your salad that day. 12. Use the nutrient density chart below to help you focus your food consumption so you eat larger amounts of raw and cooked vegetables and fresh fruit and less animal products, baked goods, oils and prepared sweets." - Dr. Joel Fuhrman, Eat For Health: Lose Weight, Keep It Off, Look Younger, Live Longer (2 book set) (Get the book.)

"That means no white flour products. Be sure the list of ingredients uses a phrase like "whole wheat" or "whole grain." Avoid semolina and wheat flour, which are actually white. Use brown rice. 8. Do not drink fruit juice. (It is fine to eat fruit, or to use small amounts of fruit juice in recipes or to flavor beverages.) 9. Do not eat any nuts (although if you have no heart disease, you can occasionally have walnuts). 10. Do not eat avocados. That includes guacamole! 11. Do not eat coconut. 12. Eat soy products cautiously. Many are highly processed and high in fat. Use "light" tofu." - Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr., M.D., Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease (Get the book.)

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