What is Soy Lecithin – Benefits and Risks!(Video)
LECITHIN SUPPLEMENT’S EFFECTIVENESS IN WEIGHT LOSS
The Importance of Lecithin
The liver performs over five hundred separate jobs – one is producing the body’s normal cholesterol and an important substance called lecithin. Lecithin is one of God’s greatest gifts to man! It mixes with the bile in the gall bladder and is emptied along with the bile into the small intestine to help in the digestion of fats as they leave the stomach. Lecithin is a fat homogenizing agent which breaks up fat into tiny particles. One of the great health discoveries of Nutritional Science is the role of lecithin (from soybeans) and linoleic acid (from safflower oil) in helping the body to dispose of these excess fats. You can see that a deficiency of these two agents may cause serious coronary blockage problems.
The soybean is the richest source of lecithin. It’s also found in all products which contain fat, such as the germ (part that sprouts) of various grains. Lecithin and wheat germ are very much alike in appearance. Commercial lecithin has a wide variety of uses. It is used to lubricate precision machines where oil needs to be spread thinly. It’s also important in confectionery and baking businesses for its natural homogenizing effect.
For thousands of years the Chinese used soybeans. About 80% of their food is produced from soybeans in one form or another. There is a high concentration of lecithin in heart cells and in the sheathing around the brain, spinal cord and nerves. Lecithin supplements come from the diversified, healthy soybean. Lecithin is a natural fat emulsifier and helps reduce larger dangerous LDL cholesterol globules and elevates smaller, healthier HDL particles and also increases vital choline levels.
Many people who live unbelievably long lives, like Zora Agha of Turkey. It was not unusual to find men and women from 125 to 135 years of age. Among these people, heart attacks, strokes, paralysis, coronary thrombosis and degenerative artery diseases were practically unknown! Eating soybeans in various forms meant they got large amounts of lecithin in their simple diet. The lecithin homogenized (dissolved) their dietary fats. Thus their level of blood-fat or blood cholesterol remained normal.
Soybean Products for Healthy Heart & Nerves
We have been recommending the use of soybeans and its products to the health-conscious people of America since 1912. Lecithin – of which the soybean is the richest source – is not just important in the digestion of fats. The functioning of the nervous system and the glands are greatly aided by the phospholipids, one of the most important constituents of lecithin. That’s why it’s found in the nervous system and in every cell of the body. Nutritional Science teaches us that the nerves and cardiovascular system both require lecithin and the vitamin B-complex rich foods.
Scientists have cited that breast cancer in Asian women is much lower than those in American women, largely due to the fact that Asian women consume a diet high in soy protein which contains Isoflavines. These Isoflavines also lower blood cholesterol levels which are vitally important for a healthy heart!
What Are Live Foods?
Live foods are the living, vital foods for health and longevity and are perishable and some spoil quickly. We have been ignorant, foolish and almost idiotic in allowing our various foods to be so refined that the vital and essential elements that Mother Nature gave them are refined out of them. We are buying and eating the depleted, devitalized mess that remains. This refining of foods is destroying our health, hearts and bodies!
To work the head, temperance must be carried into the diet. – Beecher
Vitamin E & Raw Wheat Germ – Health Builders
Mother Nature invested raw wheat germ with one of the most valuable nutrients – vitamin E. And now it is coming to the aid of civilized man to help him regain the robust health he lost by eating devitalized foods.
Dr. Cureton of the University of Illinois, who is recognized as one of the greatest living authorities on internal and external physical fitness, recommends raw wheat germ (little yellowish flakes), wheat germ oil and vitamin E capsules. They are especially useful in providing a great boost for athletes and others who desire to be in the highest state of physical fitness. Athletic coaches all over the world are following this advice to get the best performance from their athletes. In our opinion raw wheat germ (vacuum packed), wheat germ oil and Vitamin E should be part of the nutritional program of everyone – not just athletes! Vitamin E capsules are also recommended as the oil is more protected from rancidity.
In the process of flour milling, refining removes the raw wheat germ to create white flour. Millers realize that 127 wheat germ is a fragile, natural oil reservoir which will go rancid quickly. Commercial food requires a long shelf life. The average American demands that everything they buy never spoil. That is why so many American foods are refined and why over 700 chemicals and poisons are used to preserve them!
Breakfast Should Be An Occasional Meal
On rare mornings when we eat breakfast, we have organic whole grain cereal, oatmeal or cornmeal, a sliced banana over the cereal, with some honey, etc. and rice or soy milk. Make your own by combining tbsp of soy powder with 2 glass of water and 2 tsp vanilla or 100% maple syrup in a jar and shake. It’s delicious and healthy!
A rich food source of vitamin E is cornmeal mush, made with organic stone-ground yellow cornmeal (not the refined, dead, GMO, degerminated variety of corn found in most supermarkets.
