Good Article on Wheat
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Good Article on Wheat
"My mouth waters whenever I pass a bakery shop and sniff the aroma of fresh bread, but I am also grateful simply to be alive and sniffing." Dr. Bernstein
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Thanks Kari
hope you had a peaceful relaxing xmas
just a heads up for anyone interested in the article, you have to sign up to the website to enable access to the article
the link wont work straight up
http://spiritualityhealth.com/
hope you had a peaceful relaxing xmas
just a heads up for anyone interested in the article, you have to sign up to the website to enable access to the article
the link wont work straight up
http://spiritualityhealth.com/
Gabes Ryan
"Anything that contradicts experience and logic should be abandoned"
Dalai Lama
"Anything that contradicts experience and logic should be abandoned"
Dalai Lama
Hi Gabes,
Thanks for the heads up - I actually read the article in the magazine, since I just started a subscription. It is a great magazine, with tons of interesting and informative articles.
I have not posted here in quite a while, as my life has been hectic. However, I read about your latest misfortune, which I hope and pray will turn out to be good fortune!!! It sounds like you're doing the right thing, and I wish you all the best as you move back to be near family. With your positive outlook on life's many twists and turns, I'm sure you will do well.
Love and hugs,
Kari
P.S. I love the saying "flow in the river of life"
Thanks for the heads up - I actually read the article in the magazine, since I just started a subscription. It is a great magazine, with tons of interesting and informative articles.
I have not posted here in quite a while, as my life has been hectic. However, I read about your latest misfortune, which I hope and pray will turn out to be good fortune!!! It sounds like you're doing the right thing, and I wish you all the best as you move back to be near family. With your positive outlook on life's many twists and turns, I'm sure you will do well.
Love and hugs,
Kari
P.S. I love the saying "flow in the river of life"
"My mouth waters whenever I pass a bakery shop and sniff the aroma of fresh bread, but I am also grateful simply to be alive and sniffing." Dr. Bernstein
Following is an excerpt from the sited article (by the author of "Wheat Belly"). If anyone is interested, I will try to copy/paste more pages from the article.
Now, for he big question - has anyone here heard of "Einkorn"???
"At his wit’s end because of his severe reactions to eating wheat, William Davis, MD decided to become the guinea pig in a simple experiment. The question was whether his body would react differently to bread baked from modern organic whole wheat or to bread baked from einkorn, the first cultivated wheat and an original source of our current crop of 100,000 modern wheat varieties.
From wheat kernels found in tombs near the Sea of Galilee, we know that humans have been eating the hard-hulled einkorn unchanged for nearly 20,000 years. We have also been crossbreeding wheat and grasses for almost as long. Compared to einkorn, which now is mostly raised for animals, the whole wheat we buy today tends to have stronger and shorter supporting straws, larger kernels, and dramatically higher yields. These huge advancements have put wheat (breads, cereal, and pasta) at the base of the American food pyramid, and we are told to eat six to eleven servings each day. But as Dr. Davis has learned the hard way, the ubiquity of modern wheat has also created a host of potential problems.
Most obvious is that if you are sensitive to wheat, it can be very difficult to find food to eat. Davis also knew that einkorn is sold in health food stores because it lacks the gluten of modern wheat and is said to be tolerated by people with wheat sensitivities. So Dr. Davis’s first goal was to find out if going back to the source would make bread safe for him. Davis’s plan was to eat four ounces of einkorn bread on one day and four ounces of organic whole wheat bread the next.
To begin, he hand-ground two pounds of the einkorn into flour and made a simple dough with water and yeast. He describes the einkorn dough as stickier and less stretchy than any he had seen before. It barely rose after a period of proofing. After baking, Davis nervously prepared for his first bite, but the nutty, denser bread caused him no problems — and a blood sugar test revealed only a modest rise from 84 mg/dl to 110 mg/dl, similar to consuming any carbohydrate. In his new book, Wheat Belly, he writes, “Afterwards … I felt no perceptible effects — no sleepiness, no nausea, nothing hurt. In short, I felt fine. Whew!”
The next day he baked a loaf of modern organic whole wheat bread and repeated the experiment. Before eating the four ounces, his blood sugar registered the same 84 mg/dl; afterward, it spiked to 167 mg/dl. “Moreover, I soon became nauseated, nearly losing my lunch. The queasy effect persisted for thirty-six hours, accompanied by stomach cramps that started almost immediately and lasted for many hours. Sleep that night was fitful, though filled with vivid dreams. I couldn’t think straight, nor could I understand the research papers I was trying to read the next morning, having to read and reread paragraphs four or five times; I finally gave up.” -
See more at: http://spiritualityhealth.com/articles/ ... rGcDr.dpuf
Now, for he big question - has anyone here heard of "Einkorn"???
"At his wit’s end because of his severe reactions to eating wheat, William Davis, MD decided to become the guinea pig in a simple experiment. The question was whether his body would react differently to bread baked from modern organic whole wheat or to bread baked from einkorn, the first cultivated wheat and an original source of our current crop of 100,000 modern wheat varieties.
From wheat kernels found in tombs near the Sea of Galilee, we know that humans have been eating the hard-hulled einkorn unchanged for nearly 20,000 years. We have also been crossbreeding wheat and grasses for almost as long. Compared to einkorn, which now is mostly raised for animals, the whole wheat we buy today tends to have stronger and shorter supporting straws, larger kernels, and dramatically higher yields. These huge advancements have put wheat (breads, cereal, and pasta) at the base of the American food pyramid, and we are told to eat six to eleven servings each day. But as Dr. Davis has learned the hard way, the ubiquity of modern wheat has also created a host of potential problems.
Most obvious is that if you are sensitive to wheat, it can be very difficult to find food to eat. Davis also knew that einkorn is sold in health food stores because it lacks the gluten of modern wheat and is said to be tolerated by people with wheat sensitivities. So Dr. Davis’s first goal was to find out if going back to the source would make bread safe for him. Davis’s plan was to eat four ounces of einkorn bread on one day and four ounces of organic whole wheat bread the next.
To begin, he hand-ground two pounds of the einkorn into flour and made a simple dough with water and yeast. He describes the einkorn dough as stickier and less stretchy than any he had seen before. It barely rose after a period of proofing. After baking, Davis nervously prepared for his first bite, but the nutty, denser bread caused him no problems — and a blood sugar test revealed only a modest rise from 84 mg/dl to 110 mg/dl, similar to consuming any carbohydrate. In his new book, Wheat Belly, he writes, “Afterwards … I felt no perceptible effects — no sleepiness, no nausea, nothing hurt. In short, I felt fine. Whew!”
The next day he baked a loaf of modern organic whole wheat bread and repeated the experiment. Before eating the four ounces, his blood sugar registered the same 84 mg/dl; afterward, it spiked to 167 mg/dl. “Moreover, I soon became nauseated, nearly losing my lunch. The queasy effect persisted for thirty-six hours, accompanied by stomach cramps that started almost immediately and lasted for many hours. Sleep that night was fitful, though filled with vivid dreams. I couldn’t think straight, nor could I understand the research papers I was trying to read the next morning, having to read and reread paragraphs four or five times; I finally gave up.” -
See more at: http://spiritualityhealth.com/articles/ ... rGcDr.dpuf
"My mouth waters whenever I pass a bakery shop and sniff the aroma of fresh bread, but I am also grateful simply to be alive and sniffing." Dr. Bernstein