Without unduly alarming you, let me quote some relevant facts and figures about the unholy relationship between devitalized grains and the rise of certain deadly diseases. Dr. Haven Emerson of Columbia University points out that since grains were first milled (that is, since the proteins, minerals, and vitamins were extracted from wheat), diabetes has increased by 1,150 percent! hundred! Corresponding increases have also been seen in heart disease, kidney disease, and cancer. High blood pressure has risen 250 percent over the last ten years. Anemia and appendicitis have also increased at a frightening rate. These are diseases completely unknown among primitive peoples who used only unmilled grains rich in all the B vitamins. Even among Latter-day Saints (Mormons) in our own country, who are taught to adhere to Due to healthy diets that promote health, there are far fewer deaths from these serious deficiency diseases than among a similar group of people in other parts of the country. whole. There is good scientific reason to believe that too much starch in the diet helps build up those unwanted cholesterol deposits in the arteries, making them hard and brittle to the point of
where a rupture causes a fatal heart attack or brain hemorrhage.
People who eat a lot of starches are also more susceptible to respiratory and sinus infections than those who limit their carbohydrate intake to the sugars and starches found in natural foods (fruits, vegetables, milk, and whole rains) and They make their meals high in protein. Many people who attend my lectures have told me that all their asthma symptoms disappeared after they eliminated white sugar from their diets, substituting honey and fruit juices as sweeteners. A woman, whose life had been made miserable for years by one bout of sinusitis after another, experienced complete relief from this painful infection after she eliminated all artificial carbohydrates from her diet. This woman could not be shot so that she would go back to eating white bread, white rice, macaroni, or white sugar. She also noted that, since she avoided white bread, her prolonged heartburn affliction after a meal had disappeared.
Constipation, a common symptom of digestive disorders, is another universal ailment that can be directly attributed to starchy eating habits. The same goes for gas in the intestines and belching, which are uncomfortable manifestations of undigested starches fermenting in the digestive tract. Cancer, a scary word at any age and especially after forty, has been definitely linked to excessive carbohydrate consumption. Chronic irritations and other causes of cancer are less likely to lead to rampant malignancies if the body does not have an excess of carbohydrate foods. This was demonstrated several years ago at the McArdle Memorial Laboratory for Cancer Research at the University of Wisconsin and at Michael Reese Hospital in Chicago. A yellow chemical called benzpyrene, known to cause skin cancer, was tested on 100 laboratory animals. Seventy-two of these developed cancer within six months, and these 72 were the ones who deliberately received 40 percent more calories (in starchy foods) than needed for good nutrition. The diets given to the other animals, which proved highly resistant to cancer, contained their full quota of protein foods, but totaled just over half the calories contained in the high-starch diets given to the animals that developed cancer. The same experiment was repeated many times and always with the same results: the group of animals that received the least carbohydrates developed the fewest cancers.
However, this does not mean that anyone with cancer can be cured by reducing the amount of starchy foods in their diet. Unfortunately, it doesn’t work that way yet. But the message to be derived from this research is that limiting the amount of starchy foods in the diet is a possible insurance against the development of cancer. Here is the scientific reasoning behind the results of this cancer research: Biologists have good reason to believe that cancer begins with the formation of a single cell that is abnormal because it lacks normal proteins, or due to a disturbance in the hormonal balance, in addition to other reasons. not yet fully explored. During the so-called ‘critical’ period of cancer development (this immediately precedes the stage where the disease can be detected by the patient or doctor), cancer cells must compete with normal cells in the body for nourishment. If there is only enough food for normal cells, then cancer cells will starve.
This is true because, at the beginning of the critical period, the cancer cells have not yet had time to establish their own direct blood supply, as they do during the final or progressive period. Since they cannot receive food directly from their own blood supply, cancer cells must compete with healthy cells for food in the fluids carried to the tissues by the bloodstream. At this stage of cancer, normal cells have the best chance of surviving because they are still the most vigorous cells. The growth requirements of abnormal or cancer cells are quite different from those of healthy cells. For this reason, any food that is present will be immediately absorbed by the normal cells of the body, leaving the cancer cells to starve because there is no excess food for them to thrive because the body ingested more food than it needed.
If there is no surplus food, the cancer cells must starve and die. But if there is an overabundance of body sugars in tissue fluids, derived from excess starch in the diet, cancer cells are assured of all the nutrition they need to grow and thrive. And so the abnormal growth progresses to its third and final stage. It is known that cancer is more common among people whose diets are high in carbohydrates. Among the Navajo and Hopi Indians of our Southwest, only 36 cases of cancer were found in 30,000 patients admitted to hospitals. However, among the same number of white people, approximately 1,800 cases of cancer would have been discovered. Why do these Indians have such a strong resistance to cancer? Diet seems to be the answer. These tribes do not overeat. In fact, their diet would seem extremely inadequate to us. Also, the Navajo and Hopi Indians eat protein and consume very little carbohydrate. Make your own conclusions. I have chosen these ailments and diseases (heart problems, hardening of the arteries, respiratory infections, constipation, indigestion, and cancer) because they are commonly associated with the forty-something age group. I don’t need to stress that all of these diseases and ailments are destructive and killer in one way or another. Even those not commonly considered ‘fatal’ can destroy their hold on youth, reducing their physical vitality and mental acuity almost to the vanishing point.
It would be quite tragic if you had to rely on white breads, refined sugar, macaroni, rice, and rich desserts to keep from starving. In that case, no one could censure you for filling your stomach with these potentially dangerous foods. But deliberately destroying your youth and shortening your life due to an acquired habit of starch and sugar, after you’ve been told all the facts about these sabotaging foods, is a way of showing that you want to age prematurely and don’t care what happens. happens to your precious body. Are the taste delights you get from these starchy foods worth the high cost to you in health and good looks? Therefore, think about your eating habits.
