Is It Healthy to Eat Wheat and Rice

When you say wheat or rice, it is referring to refined wheat and white rice. They are not whole grains. What makes them bad for you is the healthy stuff was taken out and the bad stuff was left in.

When you eat these horrible foods, they need to rob your body of the healthy things that were in them so you can digest them. Because some of the fiber was taken out, they clog the colon.

Over time this destroys your health. 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 healthy for you to eat.The whole wheat is not ideal for health though, but it is cheap. It is better to use other grains like rye, barley, buckwheat, kamut, brown rice, spelt, amaranth, 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 different parts. To refine it, they take off the bran. This part of the grain has most of the fiber and is loaded with anti-oxidants that you need. 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. Endosperm is the name of this part that is left. Rice endosperm and wheat endosperm are the precise terms for rice and wheat. It is mostly carbohydrates. This is the reason this food can make you sick and fat.

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.

Near me, there is a Japanese/Chinese restaurant where 50% of their customers requesting the brown rice instead of the white rice. It is healthy to eat cracked wheat since it is raw. A good friend of mine loves to cook the grain, quinoa, since it takes only 15 minutes to cook.

Instead of cream or wheat, you can eat buckwheat groats and make that as a hot cereal. You can sweeten it with blackstrap molasses, agave or maple syrup. Amaranth is a very healthy grain that you can cook. It takes about 15 minute to cook.

The grain, wild rice would take 50 minutes to cook, but Trader Joes has it already cooked and vacuum packed and you only need to heat it up. Amaranth is one of many Amazon Herbs that are healthy for you. In the Amazon area, they call this grain kiwicha. It was one of the main foods of the Aztecs. Copyright 2008 by Chuck Bluestein www.phifoundation.org

Chuck Bluestein, the author, was a chemist for the federal government. He worked at the Defense Personnel Support Center in Philadelphia testing materials that went into military use. He is an herbalist and nutritionist. His free information website tells about Losing Weight, natural cures, healing depression, fasting, overcoming colds and flus the quickest way, the Lemonade Diet and enlightenment.