Author Archives: Alice

About Alice

I've milled and baked with whole grains for many years, because whole grains are delicious, and white flour is missing the nutrition that protects you from cancer, stroke, heart disease, diabetes and many other diseases. Plus it's a good emergency food.

Getting in Touch With Your Inner Neanderthal: The 10,000 Year Explosion

Gregory Cochran and Henry Harpending. 2009. The 10,000 Year Explosion. How Civilization Accelerated Human Evolution.  This book makes the astounding claim that our evolution has sped up 100 times faster in the past 10,000 years than the previous six million … Continue reading

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Look Before You Eat – the history of Food Cheating

Bee Wilson. 2008. Swindled. From Poison Sweets to Counterfeit Coffee – The Dark History of the Food Cheats. If you’re looking for a way to lose weight, many of the hideous and frightening examples of food adulteration in this book … Continue reading

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Vitamin Pills Don’t Work

Below are some of the major studies done to test the efficacy of vitamin pills over many years, with hundreds of thousands of people.  I haven’t updated this post in a long time because there is no need to, the … Continue reading

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White Flour is Killing You

Up to 30 chemicals are added to white flour, and often chemical dyes as well, to make what is now a starch behave like flour again after the bran and germ were removed (and vitamins, minerals, healthy fats, phytochemicals, etc).  … Continue reading

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Chemicals added to White Flour

After the bran and germ are removed from wheat grains, what’s left is mainly the starch in the endosperm.  Try making bread from corn starch and you’ll see why chemicals are added to flour to make it behave like flour … Continue reading

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Dishonest Labeling: How to Tell if Something is Really Whole Grain

Wheat flour is exactly the same thing as white flour. Paula Figoni, author of “How Baking Works”, says that this “…can mislead consumers into thinking that it contains all the health benefits of whole wheat flour”. Labels are misleading; none … Continue reading

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Why do 50 Nations have longer Life Spans than the USA?

How could people in far poorer nations live longer than Americans –the wealthiest nation in the history of mankind? I suspect one of the reasons is the processed and restaurant food we eat that’s stripped of nutrition, full of sugar/trans-fat/salt, … Continue reading

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Who Shrunk the Americans?

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), Americans are shrinking in height, a key indicator of declining health The poor nutrition of white flour clearly plays a role in this decline. For two centuries, Americans were the tallest people in … Continue reading

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Who Stole the Nutrition from Wheat — and Why?

1) Millers Make More Money Wheat grain is milled into 3 products — tripling profits: White Flour Bran Germ You eat the white flour.  For extra money you can buy the bran and germ that were stolen. The bran and … Continue reading

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White Flour: What Fiber, Protein, and Healthy oils are missing?

When wheat is milled, only the endosperm is made into white flour, the bran and germ are removed and sold separately.  Yet the Bran and Germ have most of the good stuff! 93% of the fiber 85% of the protein … Continue reading

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