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The Surprising Nutritional Value of Whole Grains

Simple Protection against Radiation Exposure

With the scare of radiation exposure from Fukushima now possibly coming to America and the west coast in particular, it’s a good time to promote the importance of whole grains. Eating these healthy morsels is a simple way to protect your body from the danger of radiation poisoning.

 

Japanese patients in a hospital located 1 mile from the bombing of Japan in 1945, survived the blast, but not radiation sickness. Dr. Akizuki fed the staff and patients a diet of whole grains and subsequently saved everyone in his hospital when others perished (http://home.iae.nl/users/lightnet/health/radiation.htm).

 

Five Layers of Protection

According to website http://home.iae.nl/users/lightnet/health/radiation.htm, whole grains help to protect us from the deleterious health effects of radiation exposure in five ways:

 

1. Grains are low on the food chain. Although they may have been exposed to pollution and radiation, they do not have the concentration of contaminants that is found in meat and large fish, which are at the top of the food chain.
   
2. Important with respect to radiation protection is the high fiber and phosphorous contents in grains. The binding ability of these substances helps the body to remove poisons.
   
3. The bulking factor of grains lessens the intestinal transit time and so hasten the elimination of all toxins.
   
4. Being neither very acid nor very alkaline, grains help us to maintain the middle-range pH that has been found to increase our resistance to radiation.
   
5. Whole grains provide vitamin B6, which is indispensable for the thymus. In addition, their calcium content guards against uptake of radioactive strontium, and their vitamin E and selenium prevent cellular damage caused by free radicals.

 

Examples

Whole grains are foods such as brown rice, millet, barley, corn, buckwheat, wheat, oats and rye. It goes without saying that these grains need to be non gmo and organic :)

 

More Info

More Information is found at website: http://info.breadbeckers.com/whole-grain-goodness/

 

Whole Grain Storage & Consumption

Here is a video on storing and consuming wheat berries in an emergency situation:

 

 

 

 

Wheat Flour

And this video on Sprouted Flour as another way to process whole grains.

 

Note: To benefit from a ground wheat berry, it needs to be eaten within 72 hours from the time it is milled. (Nutrition and Physical Degeneration by Weston A. Price)

 

 

 

 

For more info on Sprouted Wheat Flour Click here.

 

 

Shelly
November 2014