Vitamin A - When wheat is refined, the loss of 90%! Vitamin A is ESSENTIAL for the proper functioning of your eyes, skin, lungs, gall bladder, immune system, and kidneys. It promotes proper growth and reproduction, and helps fight off infections.
Vitamin B1 - loss during refining - 77%. Vitamin B1 is THIAMINE, which is ESSENTIAL for hair color, energy, proper digestion, and maintenance of your heart and liver.
Vitamin B2 - of which 80% is lost in refining wheat - is RIBOFLAVIN. Riboflavin raises resistance to disease, delays degeneration, and is ESSENTIAL for good skin, eyes, and a healthy heart and liver.
Vitamin B3 - 81% loss when the wheat is refined. It is called NIACIN, NICOTINAMIDE, NICOTINIC ACID, or NIACINAMIDE - and is ESSENTIAL for mental health. Niacin also aids the nervous system, helps to maintain the appetite normally, and nourishes the adrenal glands.
Vitamin B6 - PYRIDOXINE vanishes by 72% during refining. It helps to control body fluids, aids the nervous system, promotes proper appetite, nourishes the liver, and maintains the health of your teeth, gums, blood vessels, and red blood cells.
Vitamin B12 - the loss is 77%. It is ESSENTIAL for your nervous system, and actually blocks nerve degeneration. Vitamin B12 deficiencies show up as numbness in extremities, irritability, anemia, personality changes, chronic fatigue, and memory impairment.
Vitamin E - 86% is lost. Vitamin E, or ALPHA-TOCOPHEROL, is ESSENTIAL, so you don't "rust away". It is a VERY powerful anti-oxidant, which prevent rancidity in foods - and PEOPLE. It prevents liberation of hemoglobin from red blood cells, and aids the heart, reproductive system, and your body's utilization of fatty acids.
Folic Acid - the loss is 67%. Also called Vitamin B9, FOLIC ACID is ESSENTIAL for proper growth and development, and healthy blood.
Pantothenic Acid - you lose 50% of it. Pantothenic acid is also known as VITAMIN B5, and contains a very powerful antidermititis factor. Like the other members of the B Vitamin Family, is ESSENTIAL for the proper functioning of your nervous system.
Just LOOK above at the percentages of ESSENTIAL nutrients that are stripped out of our flour, when the germ and bran are removed! I have linked the other nutrients, for you to do your own research. Just click on the names of the nutrients below. You will be AMAZED at how VITAL these nutrients ARE, and dismayed that they are being milled OUT of our wheat! Click on the links to see.
Whattaya bet, that if we didn't allow them to refine our flour, and give us WHITE bread, WHITE flour, and WHITE flour pasta - the nation would spring back to LIFE! Gone would be a lot of the psychologists, psychiatrists, and counsellors - along with a lot of the cardiologists and dermatologists.
Did you know that many European countries STOPPED refining their wheat flour, during World War I? Well, they did! Results? All of a sudden - healthier people, despite the war shortages. They did the same thing during World War II. Results? Healthier people. Despite incredible stress - WAR - the populations of the countries that were involved, experienced a DRAMATIC drop in heart disease, high blood pressure, and diabetes - to name a few. For many years, the Shah of Iran forbade the refining of flour in his country. It may still be so today - I don't know. Anyone who wanted to purchase white flour, had to buy it at the United States Embassy commissary.
WOULD YOU LIKE TO KNOW HOW RATS FARE ON "ENRICHED" WHITE FLOUR? A study, done at the University of Texas, reported that rats eating ONLY "enriched" white bread and water lost 2/3's of their buddies --- within 90 days!!! Another study, this one from the University of California, found that rats fed only "enriched" white flour and water, died LONG before a control group fed only plain white flour and water. Rats fed whole wheat flour and water, lived for over a year. Interesting - no?
Pasta lacks the bran, which keeps the "sewer" of our body running freely, and the germ, which keeps us healthy. Everything that is needed for a grain of wheat to sprout and grow, is contained within the germ. Without those two items, the bran and the germ, the starchy part of the wheat is pretty much dead, devitalized "food". Yet it is used in almost every single item of baked goods in this country. Why? Because, remember the plan is SICK, STRESSED, and BROKE.
So...who controls the farms and the farmers, the grains and their hybridizing, the chemicals that are used to grow the grains, the major milling companies, and the big food manufacturers? You got it. THE OLYMPIANS. Just THINK a moment, of the idiocy here. You can count on the fact that THE OLYMPIANS are benefiting handsomely. All of the above mentioned natural nutrients, are taken OUT of our flour. Then, the remainder of the wheat is ground into white flour, which is then "enriched" with vitamins and minerals that have been synthesized in a laboratory. We end up eating the starchy part of the wheat, which is suitable only for wallpaper paste and "do-it-yourself" Play-Doh. Keep reading, there is more...