Let’s talk about what would happen if
you stopped eating grains for 14 days. It includes pasta, cereals, bread, rice, and corn.
What to Expect from this Article:
- What are grains?
- Forgotten benefits of Whole Grains
- How Grains Lose Essence?
- Fortification of Grains
- Grains and Stress on Digestive System
- Grains and Stress on Heart
- Grains and Phytic Acid:
- Grains and Inflammation:
- Grains and Liquid Retention:
- Grains and Hormonal Balance:
- Grains and Hashimoto:
- Grains and Cancer Risk:
- Conclusive Remarks:
- Source Acknowledgement
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Giving up grains for two weeks may even be more beneficial than giving up sugar for two weeks.
What is a Grain?
Grain is a seed of grass.
In a grain you have three parts:
1. the bran, which is the fiber part, which has some vitamins,
2. the germ part which has some vitamins-b, vitamin-e, minerals, and phytonutrients.
3. The endosperm which has carbohydrate contents. It has some more b-vitamins, and protein (gluten).
Forgotten Benefits of Whole Grains:
Very few people are consuming whole grains. People don’t buy grains straight away, bring it home, germinate it, soak it, getting rid of the phytic acid, dry it out, grind it into flour, and then prepare bread from it.
Rather, people go to the store, and buy ready-made products.
Now, the definition of whole grain is a mixture of bran, endosperm, and germ. FDA said, if it is at least 51% whole grain, it can be defined as whole grain.
But this FDA supported label “whole grain” would not make it healthy, if it lacks the essence. Even if it is a whole grain flour, you never know how old it is.
How Grains Lose Essence?
During the grinding process, many nutrients are lost, as it is exposed to air, light and oxygen. It oxidizes and destroys the delicate fatty acid, and vitamins.
Fortification of Grains:
Back in the 1920s or 1930s, they began fortifying grains by adding synthetic nutrients such as folic acid, B1, B2, B3, iron, and calcium back into the grains. It was done because, quite a few people developed a disease called pellagra, which is a severe B-3 deficiency, and beriberi, which is a severe B-1 deficiency.
But, the quality of those artificially added nutrients was low.
Grains and Stress on Digestive System:
Fortified grains are strenuous on your digestive system, despite this artificial induction of nutrients. When you eat refined grains, deficiency of certain nutrients take place in your system, especially of the B-Vitamin, and Vitamin-E complex.
Now, even if the scientists succeed in putting back the three B-Vitamins, what about the rest of the B-Vitamins? The absence of the other B-Vitamins causes a major strain on your heart.
Grains and Stress on Heart:
Another unheard-of Vitamin is B-4
(adenine), which is a critical compound, necessary in the regulation of
cardiovascular function. It is important for both the coronary artery as well
as the rhythm of heart. It is the neurological pacemaker of the heart.
Giving up grains for two weeks may even be more beneficial than giving up sugar for two weeks. It will shed stress off your heart, as it will stay in rhythm much easier.
Vitamin-E is very much necessary to prevent angina. Vitamin-E improves the oxygen carrying capacity of the heart tissue by upto 250 per cent. Deficiency in Vitamin-E can cause a heart to labour even harder, as it does not get enough oxygen. Heart can even form a heart cramp, called angina.
So, giving up grains will remove stress from your heart.
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Grains and Glycemic Index:
Refined grains are high in the glycemic index. Grains cause a spike in blood sugar and high insulin. Which in turn will result in weight gain, cognitive problems, less concentration and focus, irritability, lowered mood, anxiety, and tiredness.
If you consume pasta, you will notice no immediate blood sugar spike, as it takes some time to break down. But after some time, if you check your blood sugar, you will detect a major spike.
Grains and Phytic Acid:
Phytic acid is a kind of protective mechanism of the seed to prevent it from sprouting. When you consume phytic acid without germinating or soaking the grain, you will have a difficult time in absorbing minerals like zinc, iron, and calcium, etc. So, by not eating grains for two weeks, your trace minerals absorbing capacity will increase.
Grains and Inflammation:
Grains also cause a lot of gut inflammation due to gluten. It can cause pain in your gut, bloating effect, stomach ache, foggy brain, as the inflammation in gut can affect your brain, mood problems, anxiety and even depression.
Even if it doesn’t directly affect your gut, it affects the other parts of your body.
Grains are high in Omega-6 fatty acids that cause inflammation. This may not only cause inflammation in your gut, but also in your other parts of the body. So, by avoiding grains for two weeks might also cause your arthritis to disappear.
Grains and Liquid Retention:
Refined carbohydrates also cause fluid retention in your body. An average person is holding minimally 13 pounds of extra liquid in his/her body when on high carbs. So, by getting rid of the grains for two weeks, you will probably loose 13 pounds of the extra weight.
Grains and Hormonal Balance:
You will sleep better. There is going to be more hormonal balance, and you will feel calmer and stress free.
Grains and Hashimoto:
If you have Hashimoto, which is the most common form of hypothyroidism, you definitely need to get off grains immediately. Since, the gluten in grain can mimic the thyroid and can cause molecular mimicry where your immune system is attacking the thyroid. So, getting off the grains will make your thyroid to become happy.
Also, your body inflammations will go away and your immune system will work better.
Grains and Cancer Risk:
You will be less exposed to glyphosates which they spray on grains, even if it is not GMO. Less glyphosates means lower risk of cancer, and also better digestive health, since the glyphosates kill the microbes.
Conclusive Remarks:
If you give up grains for 2 weeks, you will:
• Take stress off of the heart
• Have more balanced blood sugars
• Increase your absorption of minerals
• Reduce gut inflammation, and in other parts of your body.
• Have less bloating
• Have less fluid retention
• Feel calmer and sleep better
• Experience relief if you have Hashimoto’s
• Boost your immune system
Source Acknowledgement:
Dr. Eric Berg, a specialist in Healthy Ketosis and intermittent fasting.
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