The year is 1967.

A patient brought this book “The Joy of Cooking” in with a nice note and highlighted a very interesting passage.  On page 497 of the “Know Your Ingredients” section here is the highlighted text referring to Enriched Flour.

Enriched Flour:“We have become so accustomed to our highly bleached white flours that we forget that earlier cooks knew only whole-kernel flours.  These were not the so-called whole wheat of our commercial world, but the whole grain, which includes the germ….”

….”When rats and gray squirrels are given corn in abundance, they eat the germ and leave the rest.  People leave the germ and eat the rest.”….

….”After the removal of the outer coats of germ, our flours may be “enriched”, but the term is misleading.   Enriched flour contains only four of the many ingredients known to have been removed from it in milling.” 

With the removal of the germ there is also a loss of B and E vitamins.  We’ll talk about this later.

Fresh ground flour is one of the most perishable products on earth.  It starts to go rancid quickly, just like a sliced up apple turning brown.  To combat the processors pull the oils out with chlorine derived bleaches.  I’m thinking that chemical toxins taste yummy.Sounds bad…it can be.Quality matters!  So if you are so inclined.   The best scenario is to grind your grains fresh and use them within 20 minutes.

I’m a realist and I know most people won’t do that, and grains are very common in almost everyones diet.  So what do you do?

If you can’t or won’t grind your grains and bake your bread, then lets try and off-set some of the deficiencies and problems.

• First, we have a loss of B and E vitamins with almost any processed  grain.   We need to take a whole-food replacement.  For example, if the vitamin E in wheat was a deck of cards, a supplement on almost any store shelf will say “alpha-tocopherol” and that’s about it.  That’s a card game with one card.

• The processing leaves chemicals behind for your body to deal with

Best case scenario if you are a regular grain consumer, and not grinding it yourself.Vitamin loss can be helped with Catalyn, Cataplex B, Cataplex E.   If money is tight leave out the Cataplex E.  You need a supplement, just eating better won’t work.  Think of having a hole and you start digging somewhere else and start filling in your original hole.  You just keep moving the hole.  You need to bring in dirt from somewhere else.  Try and get organic dirt

Chemicals can be helped with fueling liver detox with eating kale, Brussels sprouts, and other dark greens.  If you hate greens try Cruciferous Complete.  As an added bonus, I use LivCo as well, to help my liver keep humming along.  Many weeks I just alternate between the two.

Any of the supplements are from either Standard Process or Mediherb.

The presentation of portions can also influence the amount of food you eat. Most of us are likely to eat considerably more than usual from a buffet-style table. One study showed that just increasing the variety of foods available increased intake by 60 percent. In other words, you really do eat with your eyes.