If you desire excellent health, you must include health giving elements like clean spring water, fresh organic foods from your own organic garden or from a reliable organic source, raw milk and cream from your own cow or from a trusted local source, Local grass fed meat and organic pastured poultry products, and lastly, properly milled organic grains. Following this along with a trusted natural health care professional can help you experience abundant health.
In the past, I’ve revealed the many pitfalls of a diet which over emphasizes grain as the primary focus. Many popular diets today are trying to reduce grains dramatically, as these have been a major source of inflammation, intestinal discomfort, and obesity.
When people eat nourishing organic, heirloom, whole grains, processed and milled in the proper environment, we don’t see the messed up guts with gluten sensitivities that are running rampant in our world.
Most of what’s offered in your local store or bakery is filled with sugars and bleached white flour from GMO, pesticide, and herbicide sprayed grains which have been milled in such a fashion as to over heat the flour, allowing the healthy proteins and fats to be denatured and become rancid. The machinery often contaminates new flour with old rancid flour.
There are many excellent grains which can be obtained through sources like Bob’s Red Mill. Although milled grains are available through fine outlets like Bob’s, milling your own is the preferable way to insure the greatest health benefits from grains.
When a grain is milled, and the internal components are exposed to the atmosphere, oxidation begins, and healthy oils begin to go rancid. This is something inherent in commercially obtained baked goods. Buying flour off the shelf insures that you are getting lower grade nutrition and potentially toxic rancid oils and damaged proteins.
Properly milled flour left in a container in the pantry will go bad in just two days. If stored in the refrigerator in a sealed container, it will last up to ten days. Stored in the freezer it will last thirty days. Although it can last this long frozen, there are some nutrients which are lost. The healthiest whole grain flour is that which is freshly milled and used right away.
When Dr Lee saw that the commercial roller milling process of treating grains stripped away the health giving properties, He invented the flour mill for home use in 1927. His was the first household mill ever made, and was handmade. He machined all the parts to fit together with precision and the motors were wound at Lee Engineering. The mill took several days to assemble and cost over $1,500 each to produce. This allowed grains to be milled without the heat generated by other milling practices, and allowed individuals to have the benefit of wholesome, healthy grain products without depending on stale, store-bought flour.
The truth is, Dr. Lee dedicated his life to restoring our relationship with food, nutrition, and health. He designed the first household flour mill to fill a serious void. As he worked on his invention, he applied his vast network of knowledge to make sure the precious perishable oils and nutrients in grains would be preserved rather than destroyed in the end product. Knowing that wheat flour is almost as perishable as milk, Dr. Lee was motivated to design his home flour mill so anyone would have access to the freshest nutrients possible from grains. The Lee Mill is yet another ingenious tool which helps us manage our own health with our own hands, and one of the many amazing inventions Dr Royal Lee blessed us with.
Recently, the president of Standard Process had the general manager of Lee Engineering modernize the original Lee Mill and re-introduce it to the public. This is an advanced version of the original mill, and at an excellent price. This mill is an investment in good health if it’s used. To obtain one, go to www.OrganicsbyLee.com