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Negative Impact of Refined Carbohydrates    In this week's excerpt from Lessons from the Miracle Doctors, Jon Barron Barron Barron details the negative impact of refined carbohydrates.
 "So, given this background, and understanding that there are both good and bad carbohydrates, let's cut to the chase. When people say "carbohydrates are bad," what they really should be saying is, "Refined carbohydrates are bad." Refined carbohydrates include all refined and processed foods, such as: - Everything made with white flour: most snack foods, most baked goods (specifically, breads and rolls), and most pasta
- White rice
- Cold cereals and most hot cereals
- All sugar foods, including cakes, candies, many bottled juice drinks, and soda. Soda, particularly colas, may be the single worst "food" ever invented. Soda contains approximately one teaspoon of sugar per ounce of soda. (Artificial sweeteners are even worse.) That works out to about 12 teaspoons per can, or 32 teaspoons per "big gulp" drink. Many sodas, particularly colas, are also high in phosphoric acid, which leaches calcium out of your body at an astounding rate, eventually leading to osteoporosis.
When grain is made into refined white flour (primarily to prolong shelf life), more than thirty essential nutrients are largely removed. All fiber, wheat germ, and essential fatty acids are removed; only the starch is left. Of the natural nutrients removed, only synthesized vitamins B1, B2, and B3, and iron are put back in to create one of the first (dating back to the early 1940s) "functional foods"—enriched flour. This truly is a creative definition of the word enriched considering that "un-enriched" whole-wheat flour contains 44 percent more vitamin E, 52 percent more pantothenic acid, 65 percent more folic acid, 76 percent more biotin, 84 percent more vitamin B6, not to mention more magnesium, calcium, zinc, chromium, manganese, selenium, vanadium and copper.
As for fiber, enriched white bread has just 25 percent as much as real whole wheat. And keep in mind that much of the bread now marketed as "whole wheat" is in truth white bread with burnt sugar added for coloring. Several years ago, one company even added sawdust (calling it "cellulose" on the label) to replace the lost bran and advertised it as "high-fiber" bread. How can this be? Quite simply, it is legal to describe flour as "whole wheat" on the label even when the bran and germ have been removed. Buyer beware! You need to look at the ingredient list to see if the bread is 100 percent whole wheat or mostly white flour with just a little bit of whole wheat added just so it can be featured on the label.
Refined carbohydrates negatively affect the body in a number of ways: - They are acid-forming in the body.
- They are converted to triglycerides in the body and stored as fat.
- They all rank high on the glycemic index (with no redeeming nutritional value, unlike whole fruits and vegetables that are also high on the glycemic index)."
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