I recently read Beating the Food Giants by Paul Stitt. He worked as a biochemist for Quaker Oats Company. While doing research in Quaker Oats’s library, he came upon a report describing tests done feeding the breakfast cereal Puffed Wheat to rats. Four groups of rats were fed the following:
Group 1: Whole-wheat kernels, water, vitamins and minerals.
Group 2: Puffed Wheat, water, vitamins and minerals.
Group 3: Water and white sugar.
Group 4: Water, vitamins and minerals.
Group 1 on the wheat lived for more than a year. Group 4 lived eight weeks. Group 3 lived for a month. But group 2 fed the Puffed Wheat, water and nutrients died in two weeks!
Stitt writes:
It wasn’t a matter of the rats dying of malnutrition; results like these suggest there was something actually toxic about the Puffed Wheat itself. Proteins are very similar to certain toxins in molecular structure, and the puffing process of putting the grain under 1500 pounds-per-square-inch of pressure, and then releasing it, may produce chemical changes which turn a nutritious grain into a poisonous substance. And Quaker has known about this toxicity since 1942.
So think twice before sprinkling that anti-nutrient white sugar and that dead, antibiotic-laced pasteurized milk on top of this poisonous toxin. (And they say eggs are bad for us!)
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Does this mean I have to give up eating puffed wheat?
That’s entirely up to you, Calvin.