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First of all by default wheat refers to refined wheat and rice refers to white rice. These are not whole grains. What makes them so bad for you is the good stuff was taken out and the bad stuff was left in. It is like taking a person and taking the good out of them and leaving what is evil in them. So when you eat these foods they need to rob your body of the good things that were in them so you can digest them.

Over time this destroys your health. Then they create all these foods with wheat like pancakes, waffles, french toast, cream of wheat, bread, pasta, muffins, biscuits, soft and hard pretzels, cakes, cookies, crackers, donuts, bagels, blintzes, perogies, lasagna, sandwiches, burgers, pies, pizza and strombolis. Whole wheat and brown rice are whole grains and so are not unhealthy.

The whole wheat is not great for health though, but it is cheap. It is better to use other grains like rye, barley, kamut, spelt, quinoa, millet and wild rice. Wild rice is not a rice. It is the only grain that is native to North America. The wheat and rice is originally with 3 parts. To refine it, they take off the bran. This has most of the fiber and a lot of anti-oxidants. This is then sold in the heath food store. The wheat and rice are sold in the fat and sick food store.

Then they take off the germ and that is sold in the health food store. It has most of the nutrition. The part that is left is called endosperm. That is what rice and wheat are-- rice and wheat endosperm. It is mostly carbohydrates. So that is why this food makes you fat and sick. Whole wheat may be bland but brown rice tastes as good as white rice. It has a nuttier taste. Many Indians have switched from basmati rice to brown basmati rice.

The Chinese/Japanese restaurant near me serves brown rice and half the people going there request that. Cracked wheat is good because it is raw. A friend of mine likes to cook quinoa since it only takes 15 minutes to cook. Instead of cream or wheat, you can buy buckwheat groats and make that as a hot cereal. You can sweeten it with blackstrap molasses or maple syrup. A very healthy grain to cook is amaranth. It takes about 15 minute to cook. Wild rice takes 50 minutes to cook but Trader Joes sells it cooked so you just need to heat it up. Copyright 2008 by Chuck Bluestein

Chuck Bluestein is a nutritionist, herbalist and a fasting expert. His website has information on cold remedies and flu remeies, healthy diet, fasting, neck and back pain, natural cures, pure water and natural cancer cure. http://www.graviolaleaves.com

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