THE MENACE OF BLEACHED FLOUR

Oh wow that's awesome Eagle # 1. Glad your with us!

BINGO. Excellent analysis, simple and straight to the point.

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This is a favorite subject of mine...

The short story is that about 7 years ago, I discovered that my blood sugar was getting high. The doc told me they would just watch it.

Well, it got worse and worse. Finally my oral glucose tolerance test was 199. Over 200 and your officially a diabetic and they put you on meds. My morning fasting blood sugar was running 120-138

Well, that was my wakeup call. I'm an RN, and I KNOW what happens to diabetics. Our practice is full of them. I did not want to go down that road.

So, cold turkey, from that day forward, I radically changed my diet.

I eliminated:
Processed food
Bread (all wheat including pasta)
potatoes (I eat a few now. Grow them myself)
Store bought meat
Vegetable oil
Margarine
Sugar
All soft drinks.

My diet consists of:
Grass fed beef (including liver, heart and tongue)
Vegetables of all kinds, many I now grow myself
A little fruit
Berries (I just stared strawberries in my backyard)
Raw goat or cow milk from a local farm.
Dry red wine
Coffee
Real butter from grassfed cows
Pastured eggs from a local farm
Beef tallow (make that myself from fat I get a grassfed beef butcher)
Coconut oil
Sweet potatoes.

My blood sugar problem resolved in 4 months, as my oral glucose tolerance test dropped from 199 to 95!
I'm 6' tall and weighed 185. I had a thick waist. I lost 30 lbs in less than 4 months. I wasn't even trying to lose weight, it just fell off. I have maintained my weight at 158-160 lbs with no effort. I do Crossfit now twice a week for strength, balance and endurance. I love to ride my bike and do 13 to 50 miles rides.
I am 53.

It is sad though, as I watch my friends deteriorate. One is just a few years older than me and already needs a hip replacement.

If you think eating like this is expensive, it is. Here's the deal though: I ran what I spend through an inflation calculator, and I'm spending no more than people did in 1940 after accounting for inflation. It's just that we have gotten used to cheap processed crap food.

As an aside, NEVER eat ANYTHING with carrageenan in it. It's often in low fat processed-pretend crap food.

Everyone thinks what I do is great. Nobody wants to do it though. Wheat, sugar and processed foods are highly addictive.

Sorry this was so long!!

Extremely interesting, thank you.

Are you talking of food flour or falses flag actor flour?

Which is amusing because just like cane sugar there is less work involved so it SHOULD be cheaper lol.

That's fantastic! Good for you.

Eating healthy is more expensive, but you save so much in medical bills it actually ends up saving you money.

It's all a game my friend.

Win or Lose is in your point of view, but we all die, and least in the physical, at some point.

In the mean time I honor the spirit.

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I had poor digestion, gas and got sick more often a number of years ago, and then a retired doctor friend told me to eliminate all the wheat flour.

I eliminated the gluten and all those problems went away. Once in a while I still buy a pastry from the bakery though.

About a month ago I had a pastry and didn't want to eat it but gave it to my chickens. Most of them did not seem too interested but one hen ate most of it. 4 hours later she was in a semi-coma and couldn't move, and the next day she was dead.

It does not mean the pastry was downright deadly for a human, but it pushed that hen over the edge.

I suspect that the Rockefellers , Rothschilds, etc, don't eat that crap.

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If you can't pick it, grow it, or hunt it... I don't touch it. That's how our ancestors lived and they were fucking jacked. The Paleo Diet is a great read. The average life was not shorter in earlier times for any reason other than accidental death and lack of advanced medical care. We can all live a long, healthy, vibrant life if we stay away from man made ingredients. People spend so much time looking for the solutions to obesity, anxiety, ADD. All of these can be cured through proper diet and I can attest to that from my own experience.

Gawd I hope you're right! I love those things!

My mom is the pasta princess and dad is the rice regulator but me oh my my heart belongs to hashbrowns -- and stuff like that :p

Ya I keep coming across the Paleo Diet, it seems pretty basic and makes a lot of sense

You have it right. Grass-fed meats are great health wise and morally. (Slaughterhouses are cruel). We need to be eating meat the way it was meant to be eaten, and not altered by man.

My diet changes over the last two years are a spitting image of yours. I have also incorporated intermittent fasting but that is more of a preference than a necessity.

You should try Bison if you haven't already, that's where the vast majority of my grocery money goes

I've had bison at a local restaurant that uses grassfed beef, and wild animals. It was pretty darn tasty.

Speaking of Bison, I eat pemmican too. Pemmican isn't jerky, it's dried beef that's been ground and mixed with beef tallow. Sometimes dried berries are added, and maybe honey. It's the perfect energy bar. It's an acquired taste. I think you have to be off sugar for a good while before liking it. It's really the perfect survival food. You can literally live on it, and done right it can keep for years. I get it online. They are supposed to be making a kind soon that will keep long term without refrigeration, but they don't have it yet...

When we eat to live instead of for what I call "mouthertainment" it's better for us.

How about organic flour?

Not all organic flour is whole flour. Organic pastry flour is white flour.

Is that dangerous too?

Yes, it's non-gmo and called Wit Wokoring Wheat. It's native to South Africa and grew awesome here in FL. I planted it in the beginning of December, which was when I got the seeds, and it finished about two weeks ago. It needed very little care on my part and now I have my own grain. This year, I'm going to start it earlier to avoid the rains that come in April, which ruined some of it. Google Sustainable Seed Company, but there could be others. I don't like to promote any one company, but they're the only place I've found that has it. Good luck.

Last Edited by PresidentCamacho on 04/30/2013 03:20 PM

without beached flour, we would see all of the little
black specks (which are all of the ground-up bugs).

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I ate a doughnut this morning, because it was in my face. I am feeling a lot of anxiety today. Was it the gluten?

Last Edited by Renegade () on 04/30/2013 03:03 PM

5 stars and ainteresting read,It amazes me how much crap we eat.

Thanks for posting this very important information, OP. I just started finding this stuff out a few weeks ago, after trying to find other ways to help myself regain some health that physicians just can't figure out. I bought a bottle of Lugol's iodine drops and put some on the inside of my arm (an inch wide), and lo and behold, that iodine dissapeared completely in 90 minutes. I will reread the info you provided, very useful indeed.

A little historical footnote from my home state showing the disasterious effects a small change in a grain product can cause on the population.

Little things do matter very much.

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The first case of pellagra in the United States
was reported in 1902.5 Soon pellagra began to
occur in epidemic proportions in states south
of the Potomac and Ohio rivers.6 The pellagra
epidemic lasted for nearly four decades. It was
estimated that there were 3 million cases and
100,000 deaths due to pellagra during the epidemic.
4 The exact cause of pellagra was not
known. The patients felt ostracized and were
shunned. The social stigmatization was similar
to that of the present day epidemic of acquired
immunodeficiency syndrome.4 Joseph Goldberger
of the US Public Health Service solved the
secret of the malady of pellagra. Goldberger’s
epic work and the social history of the pellagra
epidemic in the United States are reviewed.

Lugol's Iodine is the best! I take it daily and provide a drop in my duck's (five of them) water each day as well (I raise free range ducks for their eggs)

Exactly the stories I like to read.
Thx for sharing and def not long enough :p lol.
So, could you please describe what happens to diabetics that you see. I love researching these topics.

Never heard of that, but I am always into trying out new stuff! I'm sure it's great with honey, too.

I stay at around 125 - and I cannot eat gluten, so that sure helps. I just had lunch - a bit of meat loaf, red mashed potatoes - and a quesadilla I made with two blue corn tortillas, jack cheese, a bit of tomato and green (natural) olives. For dessert I might have a bit of dark chocolate covered almonds later - but just like 2 or 3 is good. I drink water, most always. Sometimes for dinner I might just have some hummus with olive oil and paprika - dipping organic tortilla chips in it - or a Greek salad with oil & vinegar with different veg, topped with pepitas, cranberries, black sesame, sliced almonds. Everyone loves my salads. I also like to eat an egg now and then for protein, stuff like that - simple, low carb, filling, energy food. For breakfast a brown rice protein frozen fruit/berries smoothie with almond butter, flax meal, liquid minerals, etc. I skip meals sometimes when I get too busy, just snack on something healthy or eat like two meals. Love to go to the soup/salad bar, too.

As long as they aren't gmo.

Is there a different link for this info; no matter how I try my phone won't open the one you provided
Thanks either way

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