Day Twenty Seven Get Into Grains: Walk Seven Days40 Minutes and 2 miles.
Gains are probably the least expensive, but richest source of nutritional rejuvenation around. You already know about the importance of eating whole
Grain foods for their fiber content. But whole grains provide much more than fiber. Satisfying dishes like mushroom-barley soup,rice pilaf, buckwheat pancakes or Mexican rice and bean can restore and protect health in ways you may never have considered.
First, the whole grains that go into these kinds of dishes—like brown rice, buckwheat,barley corn millet and wheat-are low fat and free of cholesterol. Second, they’re loaded with vitamins, particularly vitamin E and many of the all-important B vitamins. Third, they’re crucial sources of minerals: iron, magnesium, zinc,copper ,manganese and selenium, good for everything from
Wound healing to healthy nerves,muscles and kidneys.
And grain has one more sterling quality: Protien, which helps muscle tissue
To regenerate.
Just what is a grain? Basically, it’s a seed—a seed composed of the germ(which allows the seed to germinate), the endosperm(the starchy part that nourishes the seedling during its early growth) and the bran(the protective outer hell). Whole grains have all three parts and are delicious.
By eating more grains and less meat and whole-fat dairy foods,you’ll help
Ensure that your eating habits correspond to the nutritious low fat, high fiber
Diet that authorities say helps to prevent disease.
And you needn’t worry about grains. In Fact you’ll probably lose weight, since with grains a little goes a long way.
While you’re experimenting with eating more grains,you also may want
To experiment with different kinds of grains. There’s more in the world
Than just whole wheat, afterall.
Consider barley. It’s not only delicious addition to home made soup.but also a chewy, nutty substitute for rice or potatoes. Or try bulgur, a satisfying that is the mainstay of delicious cold grain salad called taboulleh.
Be adventurous when you shop and experimental when you cook. You’ll learn to love these grains, and many others as well.
Review your food diary to see if you eat grains daily-on occasion replacing main-course meat with agrain recipe. If not, the chart on the opposite page can help you put more whole grains into your diet.
Thanks for your patience Reading
MR