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I Wish I Knew How to LOSE You--The Weight Loss Thread (check first post)
Front-Ranger:
--- Quote from: Sason on April 12, 2010, 04:21:03 pm ---I't so unfair......
Men lose weight a lot faster than women..... >:(
And they can pee standing up!
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Yes, but we get the multiple orgasms...I'll take that over peeing while standing enni day!
Front-Ranger:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on April 12, 2010, 08:58:27 am ---What about whole-grain flours and brown rice?
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I was just thinking about this recently as I was looking at a loaf of whole grain bread. That is an oxymoron, because how can you have whole grain when it is ground up into flour? I suppose whole wheat bread is a little better than white bread, but even whole wheat flour doesn't have the wheat germ. Much better are wheat berries, the whole grain (seed) of wheat, which are delicious when cooked al dente and eaten with some olive oil and seasonings.
Other whole grains are amaranth, barley, buckwheat, bulgar wheat, couscous, kamut, millet, oats, quinoa, rye berries, spelt, teff, triticale, and corn. Try them all! I have a little book you can get free from Whole Foods that describes all the grains and how to cook them. It's one of my most used cookbooks!
As for rice, I find it rather boring, whether white or brown. When I order unagi at Tokyo Joes, I have it on top of brown rice, but I don't eat much of the rice.
A friend and I had a wonderful "Linner" at the Sherpa House last weekend, and feasted on fried rice and many vegetables as well as yak stew and Tandoori Chicken!!
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on April 12, 2010, 10:58:26 pm ---I was just thinking about this recently as I was looking at a loaf of whole grain bread. That is an oxymoron, because how can you have whole grain when it is ground up into flour?
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Not really. Whole in this context does not mean in one piece. It means that all the components of the grain are present.
http://www.wheatfoods.org/AboutWheat-what-is-whole-grains/Index.htm
Front-Ranger:
That was an interesting link; thank you! Nevertheless, I still feel that whole wheat flour, even though it contains the bran, germ, and endosperm of the wheat grain, still doesn't provide all the benefits of eating the whole grain, but it is certainly better than eating white or even "wheat" flour.
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on April 13, 2010, 09:17:40 am ---That was an interesting link; thank you! Nevertheless, I still feel that whole wheat flour, even though it contains the bran, germ, and endosperm of the wheat grain, still doesn't provide all the benefits of eating the whole grain, but it is certainly better than eating white or even "wheat" flour.
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I think eating whole wheat ground into flour would be the equivalent of eating broccoli pureed in a soup -- all the nutritious elements are there, just smashed up.
But when choosing bread, make sure "whole wheat" is the first ingredient. Often, bread makers will darken soft white bread with molasses to fool people into thinking what they're eating is healthier than regular white.
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on April 12, 2010, 10:58:26 pm ---Much better are wheat berries, the whole grain (seed) of wheat, which are delicious when cooked al dente and eaten with some olive oil and seasonings.
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Yum! :)
--- Quote ---Other whole grains are amaranth, barley, buckwheat, bulgar wheat, couscous, kamut, millet, oats, quinoa, rye berries, spelt, teff, triticale, and corn.
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Couscous is actually wheat formed into grain-sized pieces, like pasta. It comes in both white and whole-grain varieties.
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