Re: Grains kill

Afraid I disagree with Jon Barron........

Wholegrains are not recommended as an ideal food for man by Natural Hygiene, for the reasons that member #76749 has outlined, but I personally think that the major disadvantages in wholegrains have more to do with the condition of the soil they are grown in, than the actual grains themselves.
My personal opinion is that wholegrains can only be an adjunct to the diet and therefore only a small, but useful, part of it.

Hygienic System; Orthotrophy Volume II The Natural Food of Man.....
"Mineral deficiency is a common fault in the diet of young animals fed largely on cereals and it has long been known to farmers and stockmen that their animals must have grass and other green foods--that they will not thrive well on an all-cereal diet. In his laboratory experiments with whole wheat bread, Milo Hastings found that the animals used thrived better and grew more rapidly as the percentage of green foods was increased and the percentage of whole wheat bread was decreased in their diet. If the green foods constituted well over half their diet, they thrived best."

"We have learned," says Berg, "that all cereals have certain defects which may be looked upon as characteristic of these nutriments. As regards inorganic salts, they are deficient in sodium and calcium; they are also poorly supplied with organically combined sulphur and with bases generally; but they contain a superabundance of inorganic acid-formers and of potassium. The cereals are also poor in A, B and C, the poverty being more marked in proportion to the fineness of the flour. Finally, the proteins of the cereals are always inadequate; they are lacking to some extent in the ringed amino-acids, and are especially poor in lysin and cystin."

http://www.soilandhealth.org/02/0201hyglibcat/020126shelton.orthotrophy/02012...


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