Whole grains are loaded with trace minerals like silicon which are not that easy to get in your diet. It is also in onions, best eaten raw. Without Si the absorption and utilization of Magnesium and Calcium are much impairted, with adequate Si there is little need for supplementation of Mg and Ca given a diet rich in dark green leafy vegetables and nuts, seeds or seaweed (a dark leafy green vegetable).
Studies done in Thoroughbred Race horses, both brood mares and their foals and two year olds in training (both high risk groups) bears this out very well. Even a non-plant based form of Silicon lowered the injury rate and shortened healing times in all experimental groups over controls feed an ordinary commercial equine diet. Eating lots of onions makes my fingernails grow much faster and thicker. Si could be the key to rampant Ca and Mg deficiency syndromes. It is whole grains but not in processed grains. Garnet On Sun, 2004-11-14 at 02:04, Jonathan B. Britten wrote: > Thanks for your kind comments, Richard San. > > One quick but important point: Price did not condemn grains, only > refined white flour. He pointed in particular to the splendid health > of one rural group -- Swiss I think -- who thrived on whole, > stone-ground grain, and locally produced cheese, and other related > diary products. On this diet the people grew tall, strong, and > enjoyed healthy, long lives. This group, he said, comprises up the > guards of the Vatican in Rome. I believe their staple grain was rye > . . . . don't have the book at hand. > > JBB > > > > > > On Saturday, Nov 13, 2004, at 02:12 Asia/Tokyo, Richard Harris wrote: > > > Hi Jonathan, > > > > Thanks for the interesting, excellent information you share with "us > > seekers"--I truly appreciate it. Dr. Mercola at Mercola.com has a very > > interesting FREE weekly newsletter and is a prolific, unselfish writer > > and > > marvelous Doctor with a large Clinic near Chicago. His books and info > > on his > > NO-GRAIN diet comes close to your's & Sol's description. Audrey & I > > (each > > 81) are adding this diet to our health program and enjoying good > > results. > > > > Sincerely, > > _______________________________________ > > Richard Harris, 57 Year FL Pharmacist > > 448 West Juniata Street > > Clermont, FL 34711 > > www.rharrisinc.com > > www.myseahealth.com/reh > > http://healthandhealing.blogspot.com > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Jonathan B. Britten [mailto:jbrit...@cc.nakamura-u.ac.jp] > > Sent: Friday, November 12, 2004 2:35 AM > > To: silver-list@eskimo.com > > Subject: Re: CS>diet > > > > > > I was keenly interested in a famous book by Weston Price, a DDS who > > undertook worldwide studies of nutrition on peoples eating traditional > > diets or moving toward refined diets. It is a fascinating book. In a > > nutshell, he found that peoples with dramatically differing diets all > > enjoyed splendid dental and physical health -- from 100% meat eaters to > > almost exclusively grain and dairy eaters to mostly vegetarians. All > > thrived on their multifarious native diets. > > > > The one consistent observation: when these peoples started to eat > > refined foods -- white flour and sugar especially -- their dental > > health went to hell, and maxillofacial changes could be seen in the > > first generation of children born to the parents on the new diet, > > suggesting not genetic effects of course but direct nutritional > > influences on fetal development. I highly recommend the book, the > > title of which does not come to mind. Check Weston Price on Amazon: > > you will find it. I think it is Health and Human Nutrition. > > > > JBB > > > > > > > > On Friday, Nov 12, 2004, at 08:01 Asia/Tokyo, sol wrote: > > > >> What I'd like to see, and probably never will is a diet study where > >> all sugar and refined foods are eliminated. This part of John's > >> beliefs I agree with. But allowing meat. After 40 years of interest in > >> nutrition and human evolution, and the evolution of agriculture, I > >> personally believe sugar and refined white foods, but especially sugar > >> is the main culprit (along with the comparatively recent transfats). > >> However it seems to be an article of faith that a sugarless, transfats > >> less, and no refined foods diet must necessarily be a meatless dies as > >> well. > >> So far, I have only one person to experiment on. Myself. The > >> metabolic typing diet information so far *fits* my history and > >> experience the best. But I am also looking into the blood type issue. > >> I have the book and a blood typing kit, what I don't have is the nerve > >> to poke my finger to type my blood. Ridiculous, but there it is. It > >> sits there, because I'm too chicken for a finger-stick. Embarrassing. > >> My entire philosophy of eating as well as all things regarding > >> health whether conventional or alternative is that everything works > >> for somebody, nothing works for everybody. > >> I got a kick out of your statement that fruit clears the system in > >> 15 minutes, I'm sure I can beat that time by several minutes! > >> Joking aside, pulse tests, and kinesiology can also be used to help > >> determine what one's body needs. > >> sol > >> > >> Joy wrote: > >> > >>> Fruits never to be eaten with any other kind of food - though if > >>> you eat the fruit first, takes only 15 minutes for it to clear > >>> through your system enough to eat somethign else. Grains and > >>> veggies are fine to eat together. > >>> I guess what I'm getting at is there are so so many variables in this > >>> equation, and your approach is like a fundamentalist preacher, here > >>> is truth, and you're damned if you don't "believe". In my > >>> experience, each of us is able to pay attention to our own bodies and > >>> "hear" what it is we are needing at any given time, and that equation > >>> varies and evolves for many of us. Imposing something out of a "true > >>> belief' in one set of research or another can often be the MOST > >>> damaging thing one can do. Joy > >>> > >>> > >> > >> > >> -- > >> The Silver List is a moderated forum for discussing Colloidal Silver. > >> > >> Instructions for unsubscribing are posted at: http://silverlist.org > >> > >> To post, address your message to: silver-list@eskimo.com > >> Silver List archive: > >> http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html > >> > >> Address Off-Topic messages to: silver-off-topic-l...@eskimo.com > >> OT Archive: http://escribe.com/health/silverofftopiclist/index.html > >> > >> List maintainer: Mike Devour <mdev...@eskimo.com> > >> > > > > >
