There ’ s Nothing Phunny About Phytates

We are told that we must eat wheat and grains for nutrition. But the OPPOSITE is true: Wheat and grains are responsible for widespread, sometimes severe, nutritional deficiencies. Conventional dietary advice is a collection of fairy tales. But understand this and you are empowered to achieve magnificent health. Transcript: I call this Wheat Belly conversation “There’s Nothing Phunny About Phytates”. Let me tell you what I mean. There’s a compound in grains called phytic acids, or phytates, and these are very powerfully effective binders of any mineral that is positively charged. When it binds up these minerals, you pass it out in the toilet. Screen text: IRON, ZINC, CALCIUM, MAGNESIUM The phytates in, say, two slices of whole wheat bread, bind up to 90%, sometimes more of all the iron, zinc, calcium, magnesium and some other minerals in your gut, and you pass it out in the toilet. This is why, for instance, when the World Health Organization flies in wheat and corn to feed starving people, they already know that the children will stop growing, and are going to have learning impairments, because the iron is bound up in their intestines, and the zinc is bound up, and they stop growing. So the World Health Organization has to take additional steps to compensate for the nutritional deficiencies that are so severe, that they impair learning and growth in children. They’ve known this for decades — that the phytates in grains are powerful anti-nutrients...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - Category: Cardiology Authors: Tags: News & Updates calcium iron magnesium nutritional deficiencies physic phytates wheat belly zinc Source Type: blogs