While it is true that most people eat cereal, this does not make the practice right.
A few react obviously (celiac etc.) , and many seem to be ok, but the evidence of skeletons
from paleolithic compared to neolithic appears to show that diet affects everybody, and not
for good in the case of cereals.
William
16/04/03 12:40:39 PM, Jochen Schwarz <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> siobhan <[log in to unmask]> wrote on 15.04.01 19:51:20:
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>>Charles wrote:
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>>But I do not believe that whole wheat, stone ground, is harmful, and the
>>bread does have a fairly low glycemic index, I believe.>>
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>Looking at the world shows that many peopleīs diet is based on cereals,
>and they are allright, they eat the cereals in a traditional way of baking or cooking.
>Cereals have many anti-nutrients inside, even a wheat grain wonīt be eaten by us.
>So people must find ways of treating the cereals, that the bad properties were diminished.
>Look at the different cultures, what they have done since began eating wheat or rye...
>People are convenient, so why should they grind wheat so much, that the result is white
>without the bran, which is said to be so good?
>Early men experienced, that wheat bran is nothing for us, and try to make a bread without it.
>See the italians and french white breads, everybody love it, but does everybody loves a breakfast
>with overnight soaked wheatgrains for a long period?
>Or the scottish people, they are cooking the oats.
>For rye they find that the sourdough is the best to reduce the phytate-content.
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>For people, who have problems with cereals, like celiac or so, its good to avoid cereals,
>but the others can consume it, when its traditional produced. And hereīs one another problem,
>because we have new sorts of grains, high tech grains, cultivate for best farming or
>baking results, not farmed for best nutrtion.
>Like paleonutrition, we canīt turn back the time.
>We can only learn from tradition and try to make the best.
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>Jochen Schwarz
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>please excuse my english, Iīm thinking german and translate it, not so ideal.
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