| Arctic Mama |
05-14-2014 05:21 PM |
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Originally Posted by banananutmuffin
(Post 5003951)
By the way, my layman understanding of the reason whole grains can be worse goes something like this:
Most of the grain's natural defense mechanism (i.e. gut-irritating chemicals) is located on the outer hull. Removing this (by refining) removes *some* of what makes grains unhealthy. Keeping it, as with whole grains, only serves to ensure that we are consuming the very part of the plant nature designed as its defense.
Now... those are very simplistic terms and perhaps not *exactly* right, but that's my elementary grasp of it.
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That is actually the primary reason I am low carb/no grains. All blood sugar and fat issues aside, I was having huge health problems at my highest weight connected partially with food sensitivities. Wheat and oats were big staples in my diet, in whole form, and I was dealing with joint pain, fogginess, acne, seborrhea, stomach aches, migraines, intermittent sore throat, and congestion. Among other things. It turns out MOST of my daily food staples were ones giving me off the chart inflammatory responses, and eliminating them greatly improved every single one of the health issues listed above, with no other changes to diet. I was still morbidly obese and still eating wrong for my body,it the inflammation went down to tolerably low levels.
It turns out I can even handle straight sugar and white rice better than I can manage whole grains of any type, and beans meet be thoroughly soaked and cooked and eaten VERY infrequently. My first clue I've had too much in the way of grains and beans is a return of acne, followed by increased migraines and a stuffy nose about an hour later. For all the issues my crappy metabolism has with starches, it is the lectin and phytate compounds, plus several select proteins, that give me the biggest health issues. Whole grains might be slower digesting, but they're an atom bomb for my autoimmune issues. |
