Health Food

Health Food

David Sparks Ph.D.
David Sparks Ph.D.
Dr. Mark Brick, Professor of Plant Breeding and Genetics at Colorado State University, makes a strong case for eating pulse crops. "If you look at the average consumer, they are bombarded with information about whole grains, healthy food, blueberries, lettuce tomatoes are all good for you. You don't hear about edible grains. The cereal grains like wheat and rice, we eat them but in most cases like with wheat, we grind it up and make bread out of it. Rice we do eat somewhat directly but we take the best part off, the bran. We pulse is directly. We take the seed coat and put them in boiling water and then we make a porridge or a soup out of them. They are unique, they are known to be healthy for you, we've got good data based on epidemiological studies that pulses are one of, if not the most healthy food in terms of reducing the incidence of chronic diseases, heart disease, cancer, obesity and diabetes, the four majors, pulse crops in the diet, as we increase the intake of pulse crops, all four of those diseases are reduced. If you look at cultures that eat a lot of pulse crops, Eastern Indians, in these areas were they haven’t been exposed to what we call a Western diet, bread, meat, and I am not saying that bread and meat are bad, don't get me wrong, but when we get away from some of those pulse crops, incidences of chronic diseases go up.
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