Suppression
Wholegrains
Category: Food
Type
Voluntary
Introduction and description
Whole grains are seeds that have had the chaff removed, but where the bran remains. Generally speaking they have to be cooked to be edible. Examples of whole grains include wholegrain rice, wholemeal flour and thus whole meal bread, wholegrain flour and thus whole grain bread and so on. Porridge made with unrefined/milled barley seeds is a wholegrain food. Grains which can be obtained as wholegrains include
Bran is the hard outer layers of various seeds including rice, corn (maize), wheat, oats, barley and millet. It consists of the combined aleurone and pericarp and along with germ, it is an integral part of whole grains. Bran is particularly rich in dietary fiber and essential fatty acids and contains significant quantities of starch, protein, vitamins, and dietary minerals.
When white rice, and other refined grains are produced, the milling process removes the bran and, as a consequence, the grains lose a large portion of their nutritional value. Bran is present in and may be milled from any cereal grain. What you are left with after milling is esentially carbohydrate – starch.
The whole grains as opposed to the milled grains have considerable healing potential.
Background
If we take an example, wholegrain rice as opposed to white rice contains various antioxidants, 12%-13% oil, tocotrienols (a form of vitamin E), gamma-oryzanol and beta-sitosterol; all these constituents “may contribute to the lowering of the plasma levels of the various parameters of the lipid profile”. So they may help in lowering cholesterol. Rice bran also contains a high level of dietary fibres (beta-glucan, pectin and gum) – thus it is a natural laxative.
Scientists have also found that it contains Ferulic acid and may help those with Dementia and Alzheimers. One of the reasons it can do this is because Ferulic acid is an anti-oxidant, but it also appears to be a chelation agent which means it may be able to get rid of various toxins in our bodies. Ferulic acid is a type of organic compound. Its name comes from the word Ferula, referring to the giant fennel. The observation on Angelica and dementia describes the science - angelica is one of a host of plants that contains ferulic acid.
Remembering that any chemical only becomes a toxin at the wrong quantities, it is also worth adding that rice brain contains tiny traces of Arsenic – minute traces.
Method
Eat wholegrains in bread, in cakes, as an accompaniment to other foods, or as a base layer for other dishes. For example risottos can be made with wholegrain rice, paellas can be made with wholegrain rice, porridge can be made with wholegrain barley [and accompanied by a small glass of whiskey, brown sugar and cream - all of which have healing potential in moderate doses].
Remember that this section is described as food, as such the objective is to have a wonderfully balanced and varied diet that includes all the things you need to keep you healthy and heal anything that may have gone temporarily out of balance, so you don't sit down at the breakfast table and force a bowl of bran down you, you eat the original grains and enjoy them.
Food for the soul.
Advantages
- All wholegrains are inexpensive and easily obtained.
- Wholegrains actually taste nicer than milled grains, wholegrain rice for example has a lovely nutty flavour.
- Wholegrains are more filling than milled grains which means you eat less and thus help to control cabohydrate intake.
Disadvantages
Can't think of any.
Related observations
Healing observations
- A multicentric, placebo-controlled, double-blind clinical trial of beta-sitosterol (phytosterol) for the treatment of benign prostatic hyperplasia. German BPH-Phyto Study group 016967
- Angelica and dementia 005403
- Arginine, the immune system, babies and sperm 005428
- Bingen, Hildegard of - Wheat 022680
- Black women and whole grains 005656
- Brown rice and seaweed 007176
- Cookies and cholesterol 005523
- Dr Duke's list of mercury chelating plants 017825
- Dr Duke's list of Plants containing ARGININE 017958
- Dr Duke's list of Plants containing GLYCINE 017955
- Dr Duke's list of Plants containing LYSINE 017957
- Dr Duke's list of Plants containing PHENYLALANINE 017936
- Dr Duke's list of Plants containing PROLINE 017956
- Dr Duke's list of plants having chemicals with vasodilatory activity 017836
- Dr Duke's list of Plants with Anti-aggregate activity 017520
- Dr Duke's list of Plants with Anticataract activity 018378
- Dr Duke's list of Plants with Antimalarial activity of high chemical potency 018058
- Dr Duke's list of Plants with Copper chelator activity 018387
- Dr Duke's list of plants with high concentrations of chemicals with vasodilatory activity 017835
- Dr Duke's list of Plants with Metal chelating ability from FERULIC ACID - PART 1 018253
- Dr Duke's list of Plants with Metal-chelator activity 018064
- Dr Duke's list of Plants with Radioprotective activity at high chemical concentrations 018063
- Dr Duke's top 20 plants with laxative properties 017657
- Dr Dukes list of plants with high concentrations of Antiestrogenic activity 017913
- Fatigue in cancer survivors 006835
- Foods to help with Benzopyrene 006913
- Haemerrhoids and wholegrains 005623
- Malt, wholegrains and cholesterol 005524
- Medical paper on plants and health 006480
- Mediterranean style diet and erectile dysfunction 005744
- Pellagra causes and cures 005528
- Porridge and cholesterol 005522
- PubMed paper - Traditional native American diet and health 005530
- Rheumatoid arthritis and food 005581
- Wholegrains and constipation 005525
- Wholegrains, sweetcorn and constipation 005526
- Zinc, iron and the elderly 005527
Hallucination
- Angelica and dementia 005403
- Depression, magnesium and calcium 005695
- Pellagra causes and cures 005528