Nina Silver wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Judith Thamm <galing...@chariot.net.au> > To: <silver-list@eskimo.com> > Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2001 4:38 AM > Subject: Re: CS>My Arthritis...Still > > > Try eating puffed millet and see if your system can cope with that - it > is > > a taste treat - tastes like pop corn only it is alkaline forming and > > contains no gluten so is terribly easy to digest. > > Judith, > Puffed millet SOUNDS like a good idea. However, having learned how all > puffed grains are made, I wouldn't advise it. > > Each grain is forced through a machine that subjects it to so much pressure, > the molecular structure is actually CHANGED. It's not simply a matter of > pumping a grain full of air--two groups of mice given unaltered grain and > vitamins in water, respectively, lived far longer than a third group of mice > given puffed grains. > > So, in other words, the puffed grains are actually BAD for you. Sally > Fallon, author of *Nourishing Traditions,* cited these studies, and I trust > the source.
I am not sure you can reach that conclusion. The whole grain is always going to be healthier than one in which the germ has been removed, and both are missing a lot of vitamins. Simply adding the germ and vitamins would easily account for the difference. It is true that the molecular structure is changed, molecular structure is always changed by heat. That is what cooking does to food. Puffing is exactly the same mechanism that pops popcorn. The only difference is that in popcorn the husk forms the releasable container that ruptures when the steam pressure is high enough, and when puffing other grains, it is done by placing in a contain in which the pressure is suddenly released. When the pressure is suddenly released the puffed grains fly out of the container (remember the "shot out of cannons" that Quaker use to use in their advertising?). If puffing causes grains to be unhealthy, then the same would apply to popcorn, which I do not believe it does. Marshall -- The silver-list is a moderated forum for discussion of colloidal silver. To join or quit silver-list or silver-digest send an e-mail message to: silver-list-requ...@eskimo.com -or- silver-digest-requ...@eskimo.com with the word subscribe or unsubscribe in the SUBJECT line. To post, address your message to: silver-list@eskimo.com Silver-list archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html List maintainer: Mike Devour <mdev...@eskimo.com>
