Minutus

A man who was a vegetarian and drank only distilled water told me
once....purely heresay....that the amount of minerals that you would take in
through out one's life would be about ten feet high and 5 feet across. My
mother who had alzheimers only did two things that I often wondered
about...she had an addiction to good white bread and dranks lots of water with
minerals in it. The new book ..Grain Brain?...talks about bread stopping the
folate receptors in the brain...so you can't assimilate folic acid?

Having said that...I have a concern about oxylic acid(spelled wrong?).
Recently I've been baking Kale and Turnip greens..I didn't make the connection
to abdominal cramps for a while....but definately something bad happens in my
body when I eat those baked greens....to the point where I felt like several
parts of my body were going into cramp or sprain feeling. I know it leeches
the calcium out of one's body...and supposedly one is supposed to eat cheese
with those high oxylic foods....and I tried taking a calcium pill this morning
to see if that takes the crampy feeling away. Just wondering if anyone knows
anything about these things.

There is a growing group of holistic/nutritional folks who
are speaking out against eating most/all grains. Some
feel all disease is associated with the increased grains in our diet.
However, I do believe most of the problem is from a)processed
grains, and b) the increased gluten bred into the grains in the past
50-80 yrs. That amount has grown (pardon the pun) from about 5%
gluten to 35% gluten in modern wheat and perhaps other grains as
well. The wisdom from some of these people is to eat the ancient
grains such as quinoa or millet. Gluten has become a big health
problem with gut/brain issues. White bread is on the top of the
garbage food list as far as I am concerned.
Distilled water does not provide mineral content as that is part of
what gets distilled out. So don’t understand some of your post.
As for Kale/turnip greens and oxalic acid---when I feel out of whack
that is the kind of combo that sets me on track againl Just made a
big pot of kale and white beans this week—kale fresh from the garden!
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From: Carol Orr
Sent: Friday, October 11, 2013 11:45 AM
To: minutus@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [Minutus] water with minerals

A man who was a vegetarian and drank only distilled water told me
once....purely heresay....that the amount of minerals that you would take in
through out one's life would be about ten feet high and 5 feet across. My
mother who had alzheimers only did two things that I often wondered
about...she had an addiction to good white bread and dranks lots of water with
minerals in it. The new book ..Grain Brain?...talks about bread stopping the
folate receptors in the brain...so you can't assimilate folic acid?

Having said that...I have a concern about oxylic acid(spelled wrong?).
Recently I've been baking Kale and Turnip greens..I didn't make the connection
to abdominal cramps for a while....but definately something bad happens in my
body when I eat those baked greens....to the point where I felt like several
parts of my body were going into cramp or sprain feeling. I know it leeches
the calcium out of one's body...and supposedly one is supposed to eat cheese
with those high oxylic foods....and I tried taking a calcium pill this morning
to see if that takes the crampy feeling away. Just wondering if anyone knows
anything about these things.

Definitely increase your calcium-magnesium intake. The green leafy vegetables gap have calcium but not in the macro amounts as required by the body. Cal-mag citrate is the most absorbable and best taken right before you go to bed.

Oxalic acid blocks iron absorption. Spinach and kale, etc. have lots of iron but it's inaccessible.

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