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Eating Well - Beaming with Health

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108 The Commonsense Guide to <strong>Eating</strong> Wet!.<br />

They are mostly made from processed flour that has<br />

been stripped of its rnicronutrients, manufacturers kindly<br />

returning one or two of the many they have removed.<br />

You are much better off having baked beans on<br />

wholemeal toast, egg, sardines or even last night's Ieftovers.<br />

However, things started well in the 1800s, when<br />

nutritional advocate and Seventh Day Adventist, Sylvester<br />

Graham, started to promote the health-giving qualities of<br />

wholemeal flour. (In fact, wholemeal flour was dubbed<br />

Graham flour in his honour.) The first breakfast cereal,<br />

Post Grape Nuts, was created in 1863 and was baked<br />

Graham flour, cracked and served <strong>with</strong> milk. In 1877,<br />

another Seventh Day Adventist, Dr Harvey Kellogg, produced<br />

Granola and in 1902 the fvst corn Bake was born.<br />

Things went downhill from there.<br />

Fruit contains fructose, a simple sugar that is one-and-a-half<br />

times as sweet as glucose. Surprisingly, fructose causes blood<br />

sugar levels to rise more slowly than glucose. For this reason,<br />

fruit can be included in the diets of people <strong>with</strong> blood sugar<br />

problems, including diabetes and hypoglycaemia and makes<br />

a good, between-meal snack.<br />

It is preferable to eat the whole fruit rather than just the<br />

juice of the fruit. For starters, there is more fibre in the whole<br />

fruit, allowing you to feel fuller than just drinking the juice.<br />

Let your hair down and try to eat the seeds, core and skin if<br />

possible.<br />

Eat plenty of fruit, two to three servings a day. Don't,<br />

however, overindulge, and end up like poor Fortunatus, at a<br />

banquet in the first century AD: 'First I was those

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