Why make fresh ground food products for your family?
Look at minerals that are lost during the refining of whole wheat into flour:
Mineral % Lost
Each of these minerals, in their own right, is essential for optimal human health and longevity. The major minerals such as calcium and magnesium are utilized in the structure of the body by building strong bones and teeth.
Further, these major minerals are used, as electrolytes, in regulating many chemical functions. The trace minerals such as manganese, iron, copper and molybdenum act as chemical catalysts, allowing many of the tens of thousands of chemical reactions necessary for good health to take place.
Still other trace minerals are so important that their absence from the Standard American diet (SAD) can be directly linked to some of our most epidemic health problems.
Chromium is the only mineral that the body can use in regulating and managing glucose. In the refining of whole wheat into white flour, we create a substance that is very close to pure sugar, since white flour breaks down rapidly inside the body, into glucose. Further through this refining, we successfully remove 98% of this mineral from the flour, creating a substance that directly contributes to the epidemic of type II non-insulin dependent diabetes.
Other mineral deficiencies that have been directly linked to disease and disorder would include iron, in the case of anemia and immune suppression in the case of zinc deficiency.
Above information from Dr. Whiting, an Orthomolecular Nutritionist. Dr. Whiting has nearly 30 years in the nutrition industry with extensive research into heart disease, arthritis, diabetes, osteoporosis and prostate problems.
Whole Grains are designed to last for a very long time, once the grain is ground into flour, the vitamins oxidize out within 72 hours and the oil goes rancid within 7 days. There are 22 amino acids in the oil. Traditional Millers remove these parts and return only a portion of the bran back to the flour.
So what does this mean to me? The first truly health oriented “kitchen machine” that I purchased was a mill. I learned quickly that I could take any recipe and trade ingredients. .substitute white refined flour for freshly ground flour, white sugar for a less refined sugar (Sucanat, Honey, Maple Syrup, etc.), healthy oils (olive oil, coconut oil, real butter) for highly processed oils, Sea Salt for refined table salt, farm fresh eggs for conventional eggs, etc.
By substituting ingredients, I am able to make delicious foods for my family and improve the amount of daily fiber and vitamin/mineral content. I found that the mill paid for itself in about 6 months of making all my own foods vs. buying package bread, pizza, cinnamon rolls, cookies, biscuits and dinner rolls.
Monica Brown
Your Health Source Co-op
Dallas/Fort Worth
Monica organizes organic produce co-op’s throughout the Dallas/FortWorth Metroplex and operates an In Home Shopping Service featuring supplements that are from organic sources and are kosher certified, standardized (medicinal quality). . .also, skin care and cosmetics (full of plant compounds from certified organic plants), water purification and air purification, stainless steel cookware and cleaning products for your entire home (kitchen, bath and laundry) basically, everything you need to supply your home with healthy products. ..you have a 100% money back guarantee, along with postage paid returns and no minimum buys.
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