Some advise AGAINST eating grains as our bodies were not designed to eat it (introduced to the human race around 15000 years ago or so and evolution has not caught up yet). Is there is a grain thats still good, or should I avoid all of them? Or maybe only have the grains for breakfast (oats in the porridge). If they are fermented though does that make the neasty ones good? I have heard that unfermented soy is toxic and liken the use of it in infants as child abuse....
Any argument againt one grain could apply to them all. First off, let's avoid the word 'designed'. What it basically is, is that humans can't eat grain unless it's cooked (or maybe sprouted, I don't study them much).
We learned to cook, we figured out how to eat grains, and make pretty things from them.
Some people have allergies to certain things in certain grains. For them, the evolution argument applies. Sort of like the same reason lactose intolerant people can't drink milk.
I'm not really sure why everyone's convinced that we couldn't have adapted to eat these yet though. It's not the same as evolving multiple stomachs like cows do to eat grains, it's simply not being harmed by grains.
The only real criticism we could level against grains is:
1: They're high calorie, often processed and compacted to eat as pastries.
2: They're often stripped of whatever nutrient content they have, which probably isn't up to the level of veggies in the first place.
3: Veggies have more fibre and water, thus more bulk. Actually this is like 1.
Cows milk is bad for you. Regular milk is bad because of the pasteurization and the hormones
Lol. Hormooooones. I really think that's overrated. Sure, we inject hormones into cows, but don't the cows tend to have hormones in their body anyway? There's always hormones floating through the bloodstream. When you eat beef, you don't really worry about the hormones in the meat. I think hormones would just get digested or pooped out. Have there been any studies showing that the hormones in cows (natural or steroided up cows) have actually passed into a human's bloodstream and actually began effecting our endrocrine system? As for Pasteurization... I know the heating destroys some vitamins but I'm not certain that would actually cause anything harmful. More likely just vegan propoganda.
Has anyone else heard information that when grains are toasted or cooked they form some cancerous chemical?...beyond the normal range of cancer caused by cooking
I think I did hear something about that somewhere, probably from Mercola (he hates him the grains). I'm not sure what the carcinogen was though.
The worst thing about grains is that they contain hydrocarbates which turn readily into sugar in the body. Sugar in excess of small amounts in our diet is poison, no joke. It is the reason most people are overweight or obese. Some people's fat is due to eating fat but most of it is from hydrocarbates. One of the worst things about eating a high glycemic diet is that it gives you food cravings. The more sugar or refined grains you eat, the more you crave. That's why eating a candy bar never leaves you feeling satisfied, not for long. Has anyone ever been hungry, eaten a sugar candy bar and then not felt hungry any more? It never happened to me when I ate them.
There are lots of other bad things about sugar besides overweight. Too much leads to diabetes and high blood sugar causes lots of damage to blood vessels, nerves and other body parts. You will not live to a ripe old age if you eat lots of sugar containing or sugar producing foods.
Carbohydrates you mean? WATCH OUT FOR THE CARBS. Anyway yes, carbohydrates are made from various formations of glucose chains. It's not that they readily turn to sugar, it's that they do, always (cept for fibre cause humans can't digest that, fibre is a good carbohydrate you should love). They will up your blood sugar. If your muscle or liver glycogen is depleted, it will go to fill that up. Your brain and muscles' aerobic systems can also draw on that for fuel. Any left over gets stored in your fat.
Sugar isn't poison though. It's also not the reason most people are overweight or obese, grains are just a focused source of calories where you can eat more than you'll use, and that causes weight gain.
The reason for hunger would be that your food digests fast, your insulin spikes to keep up with it, and all of a sudden it stops but the insulin is still there. That makes your blood sugar drop, and I guess makes you hungry. But that's a dumb excuse because you can actually ignore it. During the moments your blood sugar is high you actually get a super rush and don't feel hungry in the slightest. It's very good for post-exercise because your glycogen stores should be shot and they'll slurp it.