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pensggs
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 Posted: Fri Feb 10, 2012 2:18 pm Post subject: Wholegrain - The Question |
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| The recent submission on 'wholegrain' is that it is anti-nutrients. This is because grains(seeds) were evolved for survival, therefore, it was evolved to be eaten by predators, and then expel from the digestive system, wholly unchanged. Therefore, raw seeds and grains cnnot be nutritious. ???Any thoughts on this theory?? |
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Edwina Lee
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| Posted: Mon Feb 13, 2012 10:32 pm Post subject: |
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Seeds must store a lot of energy & material to enable it to germinate a new plant without photosynthesis. Seeds must therfore packed densely with all kinds of nutrients.
Fruits usually have seeds with a tough cover to enable passage through a bird's digestive tracts. Fruits therfore do not need to be densely nutritious, just dense enough for it o be worthwhile for animals which eat it. |
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pensggs
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| Posted: Mon Feb 13, 2012 11:39 pm Post subject: Wholegrain - the whole truth |
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Anyone asked the questions why those 'poor souls' who discovered 'grains' invented ways to pound down those grains into digestible pulp, or took the trouble to remove the indigistible part, now classified as 'good for us' by recent nutrition experts.
Easy observations and experiments. Notice how those seeds eaten by us simply pass through our digestive tract, totally unchanged. Ever thought this is why our early ancestors took great trouble to pound, ground and pulp seeds and grains???.
Recently read articles written by various researchers into the British Chinese Food Culture. My questions is the same, has anyone bothered to ensure that their findings and research are throughly investigated before they present us with the 'facts'? When 'faulty research' are plated to us mortals as 'science' and 'true history'; it makes a fool of all those that swallowed the 'facts' whole; and those that present themselves as 'experts'. There are 'big holes' in the timeline; and a timeline without mentioning the 'revolution in the British Chinese Food Culture' spearheaded by the 'Yau' factor; is missing a big part of our Food history.
So, Edwina, we all know grains and seeds contained loads of vitamins, minerals, anti-oxidants, etc. The question is can our digistive system absorbs these nutrients. Also, to ensure survival of their species, a fundamental reason for being 'alive', do these grains and seeds produce anti nutrients that can be harmful to us humans? Therefore, the question is not whether wholegrains contain nutrients but whether they also contain anti-nutrients. Ever give our ancestors the credit that they may know 'more' than us 'educated beings' of today ? |
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