Re: oat bran and wheat grass

 You crack me up H, I hope your concern is as real as your intensity.
I was interested in the difference between the basic petroleum molecule and the molecules of the super lubricants developed for the Alaska pipeline, one is like a beachball, the other like a golfball, similar, tho not quite the same except in their abilty to be effectivly utillized,when we compare the simple oses molcules with the larger carb molecule groupings.

If all we ever ingested was simple sugar molecules what do you think would happen? We would see a lot more obesity, a lot more diabetes, decreased bone density, increased hormonal issues, higher cholesterol, more heavy metal accumulation, more nutritional deficiencies and a lot of other health issues.  About 80% of our immune system comes from the intestinal flora, which use fibers as a food source. The simple sugars we ingest won't even reach most of the flora as they will either be absorbed adding calories or they will be fermented by Candida producing gas and promoting the Candida growth. Because the fibers are not absorbed by the body and they are not digested by the Candida they do not add calories, nor do they promote Candida overgrowth. What they will do is reach the flora intact where they act as a food source for the flora. Fibers also help in the production of bile preventing gallstones, and bind cholesterol and heavy metals. The flora fed by the fibers help increase mineral absorption, produce vitamins, produce cytokines and peroxides activating the immune system, help to keep Candida under control, help to kill or crowd out pathogenic bacteria, detoxify hormone metabolites, etc.

In addition we have other long chain sugar molecules (polysaccharides) such as aribinogalactan and beta glucan, which are strong white blood cell activators.

So yes the difference between simple sugars and polysaccharides is like the difference between a golf ball and a beach ball. But the same can be said about vitamin C and vitamin E. So you think the body only needs either vitamin C or vitamin E and not the other? What about the hormones insulin and DHEA? Again we only need one or the other since one is the "golf ball" and the other is the "beach ball"?

The fact is that we need fibers just as much as we need simple sugars such as glucose.

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