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After you transition to a more healthy way of eating, these things are going to be calling out to you, tempting you, beckoning for you like those midnight snack cravings did back in the day: Breads, pastas, tortillas, chips, crackers, beans & legumes, hummus, bean burgers, soy ‘fake meat’, rice, oatmeal, starchy desserts of all kinds, bagels, cakes, pies, muffins, potatoes, corn and corn products.
I know what you are thinking — what other fun things are there left to eat if these are off the menu? This is a fair point. There are some pretty inventive substitutions — for example, tortillas made from coconut, hummus that’s made from sunflower seeds, chips made from dried vegetables and seeds, and numerous other products.
But why even go through all this extra effort to eat goofy substitution specialty products that have to be special-ordered and can’t even be found in most restaurants and many grocery stores? Are grains, beans and starches really that much of a bad thing to eat?
The short answer is that grains, beans and starches, in my opinion, while they may not be as bad as other things like dairy, GMO-type fake foods, chemicals and additives, sodas, and conventionally raised meat, they are still right below those other foods on the list and they are still quite harmful to the human body when consumed, for a few different reasons which I would like to outline.
Typically, these foods are cooked as part of the preparation process. As you can see outlined in another segment, ‘Cooked vs. Raw Foods’, if your goal is thorough detoxification and regeneration, you will want to minimize the amount of cooked foods you are consuming. Cooked foods lower the overall energy of the individual as opposed to raw foods raising it (electrically speaking in terms of angstroms). Repeated consumption of cooked foods depresses the electrical energy of the individual over repeated occasions.
Grains are a complex food which are eaten by herbivores in natural settings, and are a great example of a complex sugar. Grains include foods like wheat, but also rice and things like oats.
As opposed to simple sugars which are processed easily, complex sugars are digested with great effort and complexity. The result is acidic chemistry which is created throughout multiple steps of the digestive process, leaving behind an acid wake in the body, which must be neutralized and cleansed out. This causes oxidative stress on the body and creates toxicity and over-acidity which can lead to all kinds of health problems (the same ones which you are trying to get rid of by going through this information, and worse).
How about beans? Beans, also called legumes, are like the protein-rich version of grains. While grains are a starchy, high-carb food, high in complex sugars, beans are a complex plant food which are very high in protein but typically low in sugars. Beans are also full of ‘anti-nutrient’ compounds like the ones found in grains. These acidic chemicals are harmful to tissue in addition to preventing absorption of nutrients from the beans. Beans are also filled with enzyme-inhibiting chemistry. They take a very long time to digest, are very complex for the digestive system to break down, and can cause excessive gas, bloating and constipation.
Lastly, let’s address the whole truth about starches. Specifically, we’re talking about potatoes, as well as corn and corn products, and I know there are some other lesser known starch foods that I’m leaving out like palm starch and cassava and pumpkin. There are also vegetables which are on the starchy side like carrots, beets, cauliflower, and butternut squash (while regular squash/zucchini is not as starchy) — we’ll go easier on them keeping in mind that they are far less starchy than the aforementioned foods.
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