On Wheat

Virgin wheat. 

In India we have a variety  called emmer wheat, Jave Godi or Khapli. 

It is good to shift to those forms of wheat. 

Wheat has been extolled as food from ancient times, "have this day your daily bread, etc" and is a staple the world over. Yet, the maximum degeneration in health today is due to the wheat we eat. Whenever anyone suffers from an extreme form of stomach distress like IBS or colitis, they should first try dropping wheat and then milk from their diet; there is a good chance that they will get better. 

So how come a food like wheat that has been extolled since ancient times is the cause of ill health? That is because the wheat we eat is no longer the same as what our ancestors used to eat. Nothing is, the tomatoes and sitaphal that we eat are hybrid versions too, but those seem to have worked out fine at least so far. 

Even the allopathic doctors, who are usually slow on the uptake, and gastro-enterologists, who, being more qualified alopathic doctors would be more prone to give wrong advice, have started recognising this. They advise their patients to drop wheat from their diet in case of unresolvable stomach problems or allergies without a cause. 

So how do we go towards the original biblical pristine wheat? Try shifting to Jave Godi. Or give up wheat altogether and shift to rice. Or shift to other grainss like millets. 

Even better from a holistic health perspective is to give up eating grains altogether. Since ancient times, natural healers have recognised that grains are not really good for health. 

Also note that such discussions are possible only if we buy our own grains, vegetables, and fruits, and cook them at home. The others can ignore all this and continue having their Kellogg's flakes and packaged orange juice for breakfast, which items being so far removed from food as to be not food at all, are perfectly fine to have.