Superfoods part 30
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Today’s post: Friday, 5-26-2006
Superfoods & Honor Roll Foods, part 30
Brewers yeast.
Brewers yeast is a superfood. And it’s an honor roll food.
Like wheat germ, it is very rich in most of the B complex vitamins
And, it’s quite high in protein without being high in saturated fat.
Plus, for those of you who cannot eat the gluten in wheat germ, or who are trying to cut the carbs down in the foods you eat, brewers yeast is a good choice. It has no gluten & virtually no carbs.
**My other reason for listing Brewers Yeast is that the US government has continued to threaten to pass legislation or create FDA policies that will decide for you what vitamins & other supplements you can take without a prescription.
This would effectively prevent anyone not a doctor or who is not a millionaire with a co-operative personal physician from getting B complex vitamins.
If done, I certainly think that will harm the health of millions of people in this country & do so unnecessarily.
Some of the doctors in favor of this like to say they follow “evidence based” medicine. The gravely serious problem with this is that people like me who have raised their HDL’s to over 90 & their LDL’s to under 100 with supplements alone aren’t evidence they know about.
So they tend to give legislators & regulators bad & seriously flawed advice.
In addition, even if I’m wrong on the health harm that would cause, which the studies I’ve seen suggest & my just listed personal experience demonstates, is extremely unlikely, it’s totally unnecessary.
Doctors & pharmacists already know what supplements can interact with drugs. And, both that knowledge & the percentage of health professionals who know it or how to find it will increase withOUT over-regulating the vitamin & supplement industry.
(The very few supplements that cause other problems of any kind are becoming known, & in some cases banned. And the information on the few vitamins that cause some harm in very high doses is becoming better researched & better known.)
But people don’t always do the right thing if they know what it is -- & can’t do the right thing even if they are willing if they don’t really have all the pertinent information. This becomes more likely if they think they have all the pertinent information & do not.
So, since legislators & regulators are people, this kind of horrible over-regulation may come to pass anyway.
And, if it does, the rest of us will have to make do with superfoods.
Foods like wheat germ & egg yolks & avocados are high enough in vitamins to be also considered honor roll foods.
And, if that kind or regulation happens, you may well need them to replace the vitamin supplements you now take & take for granted.
Brewers yeast is also that kind of honor roll food.
So, it may well pay you to find out where it’s sold & find what ways to fit it into your food work well for you.
Brewers yeast has a distinct & slightly nutty taste & has a kind of powdery consistency.
For me, it doesn’t work adding it to cereal & milk. But it can work well in a blended protein drink or smoothie.
And, it can work with some soups as it adds both flavor & protein to them.
Brewers yeast is one of the few superfoods I’m listing here that you may need to get at a health food store.
The grocery store chain that does carry it is Whole Foods Markets.
And, they are well enough managed & have a strong enough sales base in organic & safest to eat foods, I think they will survive if the supplement industry is trashed.
They may even do well as the source of foods that can make up for the lack of vitamin supplements.
So they should continue to be around even if supplements are over-regulated & driven from the market.
In it we post health commentary & reviews of books, eBooks, & other things that improve or protect your health or which enable you to live longer, to be more prosperous, & to be more effective.
Today’s post: Friday, 5-26-2006
Superfoods & Honor Roll Foods, part 30
Brewers yeast.
Brewers yeast is a superfood. And it’s an honor roll food.
Like wheat germ, it is very rich in most of the B complex vitamins
And, it’s quite high in protein without being high in saturated fat.
Plus, for those of you who cannot eat the gluten in wheat germ, or who are trying to cut the carbs down in the foods you eat, brewers yeast is a good choice. It has no gluten & virtually no carbs.
**My other reason for listing Brewers Yeast is that the US government has continued to threaten to pass legislation or create FDA policies that will decide for you what vitamins & other supplements you can take without a prescription.
This would effectively prevent anyone not a doctor or who is not a millionaire with a co-operative personal physician from getting B complex vitamins.
If done, I certainly think that will harm the health of millions of people in this country & do so unnecessarily.
Some of the doctors in favor of this like to say they follow “evidence based” medicine. The gravely serious problem with this is that people like me who have raised their HDL’s to over 90 & their LDL’s to under 100 with supplements alone aren’t evidence they know about.
So they tend to give legislators & regulators bad & seriously flawed advice.
In addition, even if I’m wrong on the health harm that would cause, which the studies I’ve seen suggest & my just listed personal experience demonstates, is extremely unlikely, it’s totally unnecessary.
Doctors & pharmacists already know what supplements can interact with drugs. And, both that knowledge & the percentage of health professionals who know it or how to find it will increase withOUT over-regulating the vitamin & supplement industry.
(The very few supplements that cause other problems of any kind are becoming known, & in some cases banned. And the information on the few vitamins that cause some harm in very high doses is becoming better researched & better known.)
But people don’t always do the right thing if they know what it is -- & can’t do the right thing even if they are willing if they don’t really have all the pertinent information. This becomes more likely if they think they have all the pertinent information & do not.
So, since legislators & regulators are people, this kind of horrible over-regulation may come to pass anyway.
And, if it does, the rest of us will have to make do with superfoods.
Foods like wheat germ & egg yolks & avocados are high enough in vitamins to be also considered honor roll foods.
And, if that kind or regulation happens, you may well need them to replace the vitamin supplements you now take & take for granted.
Brewers yeast is also that kind of honor roll food.
So, it may well pay you to find out where it’s sold & find what ways to fit it into your food work well for you.
Brewers yeast has a distinct & slightly nutty taste & has a kind of powdery consistency.
For me, it doesn’t work adding it to cereal & milk. But it can work well in a blended protein drink or smoothie.
And, it can work with some soups as it adds both flavor & protein to them.
Brewers yeast is one of the few superfoods I’m listing here that you may need to get at a health food store.
The grocery store chain that does carry it is Whole Foods Markets.
And, they are well enough managed & have a strong enough sales base in organic & safest to eat foods, I think they will survive if the supplement industry is trashed.
They may even do well as the source of foods that can make up for the lack of vitamin supplements.
So they should continue to be around even if supplements are over-regulated & driven from the market.
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