Something in the Flour

I've discovered, that in this country, flours must be enriched with thiamine, a B Vitamin, (B1) usually as thiamine mono-nitrate. It is purported that this nutrient is necessary for health in humans and all animals, and that its lack is cause of Beriberi. Well, this nutrient is naturally occurring in most modern diets. Even without enriching flours, modern people do not get diseases like Beriberi, which was largely exhibited in people like sailors who did not eat a proper diet.

Do you know what B vitamins do to me? They make me nervous, and amp me up. Get me wired like caffeine. This is not true for everyone, but it is true for X percent of us. It just makes me wonder. Further, and you could call me on this one of I'm wrong, since I just had high school level bio and chem classes but; nitrogen is a waste product in the human body. Its presence is immediately rejected, and it is expelled as feces or urine. The human body does not require it. However, the source of thiamine of choice, is a nitrate. Part of it will be expelled as a free radical whose presence has no place in our system. Why do humans need this? Is it just, perhaps, that it is cheaper to add that extra molecule, nitrate, in order to get the thiamine?

Look at the food pyramid- and you will see how essential grains and carbs are made to be in our diet. So let's think of this for a moment- you can't get anything with flour without thiamine here, and you are advised to eat a lot of stuff with flour. Not only that, but it's among the cheapest of foods, and very hard to imagine living without for most people. From the morning doughnut to the midnight cookie. We already know there's something in the water. Don't say there isn't. It wouldn't surprise me in the least, if there was also something in the dough!! whether or not the intent is to make us all nervous all the time, so that we obey, and don't think for ourselves, is not for me to conclude. I don't know why things are the way that they are. But I do know, there's more than meets the eye. The practices used in our food production, not to mention medicine and the rest of our social structures, remain mysterious. Never trust them!

If you don't buy the conspiracy theory, there are still other problems with our food system. Did you know the corn growers and dairy farmers, etc... bond together to force their wares upon the nation? For example, the dairy farmers have a government marketing organization which has given Domino's pizza cash incentives for producing (hideously unhealthy,) pizza's that contain lots of cheese; and their website tries to produce a guilt trip for those- like me- who would order pizza without cheese, by offering a message like “We just wanted to keep the dairy farmers happy but...” I'm not kidding! This is real. And the corn farmers band together to insure that high fructose corn syrup- a very unhealthy carb which is a leading cause of obesity- is in virtually everything! Look this stuff up. This is the kind of shenanigan your government is involved with!!

For careful eaters like me, being vegan, this stuff is a moot point, since we are not swindled by this BS, but for others, if this sounds like it affects your diet, it probably does. All I'm encouraging you to do is evaluate your moods after eating certain foods, and the physical sensations you have after that. I know that if I just subsist on junk foods for a day, I'm definitely going to be sick later. Without fail.

You are what you eat. That's all I'm saying. And America is eating very specific things as a general group. Consider deviating from that group, if you can.