How much grain today is not comparable to its position in the history of human life. Why not! Proved that humans began to cultivate wheat before he learned to keep records. Wheat culture is formed in line with the development of civilization.
History of wheat.
No one ever knew the origin of the wheat crop. The only unknown is the grain grown in a place where humans are expected first appeared, namely in the area of Southeast Asia. Even the man thought to have been using wheat as a food ingredient at least ten to fifteen thousand years BC. In 1948, an archaeologist from the University of Chicago found an ancient village in Iraq, built 6,700 years ago. In the ruins of the village, they found two types of grain similar to wheat crops are grown now. The first humans probably always on the move, along forests and meadows, in search of food needed to stay alive. Until one day they find a kind of grass, namely wheat, which was edible. On the same day, they marked the spot where the grass species planted, to return annually to the same place.After passing through several centuries, they began to realize that the grain can be stored to meet the needs of their food during the winter, and wheat germ are the source of new harvest when spring arrives. Because wheat is only suitable in places where the land is fertile and rainfall, finally, man and his family decided to stay around the planting site.
To live in the vicinity of wheat plants and enjoy the harvest, early man a kind of shelter. If the land is wide and fertile, another family will come and join, forming small hamlets for the sake of common security. When people are no longer forced to move, there is time for him to think and plan, such as improving their harvest, place of residence and the pattern of his life. He began to observe the change of seasons, increasingly understand the meaning of time. Slowly turned into a society of nomadic farming communities. Due to the need to exchange ideas and mutually understand each other, began to develop spoken language. Shortly thereafter, a series of symbols to complete the communication needs, the precursor of written language at a later date. Seeds of wheat seed the guardian of development of human civilization.
Our daily diet containing too much grain. Countless that sometimes we fall asleep and not aware or even override the meaning of the content of the wheat in our diet. Such as bread, which is a type of whole grain foods are most popular, example ballpark has been found among the ruins of ancient village, belonging to the inhabitants of the lake in Switzerland. however, grains of wheat estimated first type of food grain, peeling of the skin, to chew.
Wheat found during excavations of ancient towns often take the form of carbon, such as skin peeling through a heating process. Grain leather heated or dried it easier to peel. Other forms of cereals, such as maize or rice, and early varieties of wheat, like popcorn, can be blown out of his skin. Thus, the beans are heated causing the moisture that is enclosed in a hard shell inside turns to steam. As a result, the seed was blown out.
One interesting fact in the history of wheat, wheat was eaten by primitive way in various parts of the world today. Various kitchen appliance used beginning culture began to grow wheat can still be found, incidentally rugged devices that are often used several thousand years ago are still in daily use. With the development of writing skills of man, the story of the wheat began to be recorded in history.
Several bronze tablet dated nine centuries before BC tells milling activities of wheat and bread making in Assyria. In the fifth century, Herodotus, a historian of ancient Greece, wrote about the bread in Egypt. Some walls of the tomb building along the Nile, featuring paintings planting and harvesting wheat, flour milling and bread making. Also found deposits of grain and bread made of solid foods in a variety of building tombs. Even Egyptians used to sift their food to make flour and bread, an activity that is reserved for the class leader. To the extent commonly agreed that Egypt was first discovered a bread that can inflate.
Wheat for Body Health Benefits.
One of the content of the grain is rich in B vitamins and contains fiber. By regularly consuming wheat, will have many benefits for health. In some health referral mentioned that oats can also cure diseases, such as coronary heart disease. Therefore, do not be surprised if many products touted to cure coronary heart disease, because the food is made from high quality wheat base and not much use traditional preservatives. Wheat also suspected to lower cholesterol levels and diabetes. In addition to curing the disease, the benefits of wheat is maintaining the health and development of the body, including growth and development of children.In production, divided into whole grain oats and wheat milling. Whole wheat is called if all parts of the grain used for consumption. Whole grain contains carbohydrates, vitamins, minerals, protein, antioxidants, and fiber. All of these parts, if consumed whole, will benefit the whole anyway.
Wheat in general are not very different from rice, especially mixed with still leave the membranes, because in this section contains a lot of natural fiber that is very beneficial for the body. But in terms of vitamins and other compounds that are beneficial to the body, obviously higher wheat. Actually wheat for some countries be used as a staple food as well as in Indonesia and Southeast Asian countries in general. In the form of processed grain can be obtained in the form of bread, snacks and drinks.
Wheat plants thrive in temperate climates with humidity seven per cent, widely grown in fields in South America. Actually wheat can also grow well in the area of Indonesia, only less popular as crops. This is of course related to the consumption of Indonesian society in general to wheat lower than rice consumption. Though already a lot of research that says that wheat is indeed very beneficial for the body, especially because it contains high fiber. With high fiber that when consumed will facilitate defecation, so it will not be much left the rest of the food in the gut that could lead to accumulation of fat and cause the symptoms of constipation.
Content of Wheat.
In contrast to the mainly rice that has been processed through the lining of the missing rice, wheat has a high fiber that can help facilitate digestion. Whole wheat also mentioned have a good role to maintain weight. Because the process is long, complex carbohydrates in oats into a good source of energy for the body. It also makes the body feel full longer so that the desire for snacking can be reduced. So that in the end will not be a lot of foods that cause excessive weight increased even up to obesity. Obese people in general are closely linked to this snacking craze. Well, if you include the likes snacking, try replacing your staple diet of rice with wheat. Similarly, for breakfast rather than bread made from wheat, better eating wheat bread. It is true that wheat bread is slightly more expensive and not all bakeries provide bread made from wheat.Meanwhile, for the wheat milling, not all parts of the grain used. Eg for flour and bread, just the part that contains carbohydrates and proteins are used. For the obese, consume whole grains are excellent, accompanied by eating foods low in cholesterol and fat. In fact many things we can do in relation to maintaining a healthy body is to maintain the diet and sleep patterns. What is meant by changing patterns of food is particularly pay attention to the content and adequacy of balanced nutrition, not simply whether or not the food is filling. One indication of a good diet is to defecate regularly without complaint, as preceded by constipation, too hard or too soft or even diarrhea.
Wheat contains phytochemical compounds, chemical compounds in plants, but have the positive properties for the body. Compounds is exactly what makes the wheat is very good for health. Phytic acid helps reduce sugar levels in plants so that the plants are good for diabetics. There is also the phenolic compounds contain antioxidants that bind free radicals ions. The content of this phytochemical compounds that are now widely used by the experts to make herbal medicines or drugs derived from plants. Thus if you actually want to regularly consume wheat with an appropriate dose, the body itself will be much healthier, so no longer require additional medications either chemical medicine and herbal medicine to nourish and maintain a healthy body. It's just that people often underestimate and neglect the health advice in relation to the enriching of basic foodstuffs. Too delicious to eat rice for example, makes people less likely to change with staples such as wheat.
In fact, if people begin to consume grain as a staple, with its own farmers will increase planting of wheat, so it is also sufficient availability in the market. Thus in the end the government will also not be confused with importing rice from other countries if the rice needs of the community will decrease. In addition to wheat, with abundant wealth in Indonesia, the staple food should not just rice and wheat. Some of the plants or crops and plantations that can be used as a staple among others, cassava, yams, taro, bananas and sago. All these plants thrive in the area of Indonesia.
A study also showed that oats can lower blood pressure, or in other words useful to cure hypertension. Although the content of whole wheat is better, it does not mean eating foods that do not contain all parts of the grain not useful. For example, bread. As was mentioned earlier that eating whole wheat bread is better than white bread, though it is more expensive.
For breakfast needs, children usually given white bread. For children who are obese, it should be avoided. High carbohydrate content in white bread makes the weight of obese people is increasing. Therefore, it is better to consume wheat bread. Well baked, steamed or eaten without being processed first, consume wheat bread is much more delicious and savory. So actually fitting that then the price is more expensive than white bread.
Wheat is not so well known by the people of Indonesia. For product was usually consumed for patients with coronary heart disease. Yet for those who are not suffering from any disease can consume. For those who do not like the bland taste of oatmeal, can be added when consuming fruits, such as strawberries and bananas. And ready meals now indeed been many variations of the product oatmealini. It's just that easy to get alias unprocessed whole grains, much better, considering the food if wheat had been mixed with preservatives.
People who have high blood sugar or being on a diet is highly recommended to consume foods made from wheat. In Indonesia, wheat is not the main meal. But there is nothing wrong if you choose wheat consumption since now, because health is very friendly.
Dr. Joanne Slavin, from the Department of Food Science and Nutrition at the University of Minnesota, US states wheat helped to shape the body is better because it contains various nutrients low in fat which can enrich the daily diet, such as complex carbohydrates, dietary fiber, vegetable protein, phytokimia, antioxidants, vitamins, and minerals. In every 100 grams of wheat contained 3.1 mg of iron and 36 mg of calcium which is useful, among other things, cure coronary heart disease and high blood pressure.
Oatmeal (oatmeal) and cereals are the best source of carbohydrates, because it is made from grain that is processed does not eliminate the source of the fiber. According to Dr. Prapti Utami, a herbalist, consultant and author of 'Treatment With Medicinal Plants', oats contain fiber and folic acid can reduce and cure coronary heart disease.
Research Effect Against Cholesterol Oatmeal (1999) showed that consumption of as much as 70 grams of oatmeal on a daily basis can bind cholesterol and remove it from the body.
American Cancer Society research being, suggests oatmeal is a soluble fiber that can lower LDL cholesterol without lowering HDL cholesterol. Although there is a faster pharmacological therapy to lower LDL, but more healthy whole grain cereals therapy and without side effects. Oatmeal also has a low glycemic index.
Oatmeal is also very good for diabetics because it has been shown to stabilize blood sugar levels after a meal thanks fitrat its acid content, and provide a protective effect against the risk of developing colon cancer cells.
Despite having plenty of phytochemical compounds, wheat is a food that is safe from addictive substances. "Most of oatmeal product does not contain any addictive substance. In fact, no preservatives and dyes in the majority of oatmeal products," said Dr. Prapti as published on Sunday (03/06/2011).
According to the study, 50 percent of women over the age of 20 years can meet the needs of a wide essential nutrients calcium, folic acid, vitamin B6, vitamin A and E, and iron by eating wheat. Cereals contain vitamins A, D, calcium is useful for bone health, and energy enhancer such as iron and vitamin B, as well as folic acid, and vitamin E.
Vitamin B which are found mainly in whole grains will stimulate production of serotonin, a hormone and neurotransmitter substance that will send calming signals in the brain. Elisa Zied, RD, author of Nutrition at Your Fingertips also said that whole grains are digested slowly so that the body of the hormone serotonin released will last long.
Presents a practical way wheat.
Cereals.
- Serve with whole-grain cereal or soup broth soup that uses natural herbs. Avoid the use of salt or flavoring excessive because it would contradict the benefits of oats.- To taste better and look more attractive, mix some vegetables like carrots, beans, broccoli, and fruits such as kiwi, strawberries, grapes, or peaches.
Oatmeal.
- Boil 4 cups of water and one cup of oatmeal in a pot. Stir until dissolved, turn off the flame. Let the oatmeal in a covered pot overnight. The time to be served, reheat the oatmeal to warm them.- Mix ½ cup oatmeal with two cups of water in a bowl, which can accommodate 8 cups of water. Cover the bowl with plastic wrap, heat in the microwave for five minutes. Stir well, warm back in the microwave for five minutes.
In the wheat in Medicine Ala Prophet.
Prophet advised the friends that consume wheat. This much he pointed out in some of his saying. Among narrated by Ibn Majah in the book his Sunan from the hadeeth Lady 'Aisha RA, that he said, "It is the Prophet when found someone from the family (his wife) it is not feeling well (ill), so he ordered that the cooking bowl (soup ) of (material) of wheat. Then he told them to drink (consume) it. Then he said, 'Behold (soup broth) wheat (nutritious) to strengthen a weak heart (sad), disclose (treat) a sick heart as someone amongst you uncover the dirt on your face with water. "Hazrat Aisha RA said, too, that the Prophet Muhammad when told about someone who is sick and will not eat. He said, "Be ye make soup wheat, Drinks to him ..." he also once said, "By the One that my soul is in the grip of his hands, the real (soup / sauce, wheat) efficacious cleaning one's stomach among you, as a person of you clean the face of dirt. " (HR. An-Nasai, At-Tirmidhi, Al-Hakim and Ahmad).
Wheat various properties.
Wheat is used in a way cooked as a cure inflammation and fevers.Meanwhile, the water used to cook the grain-medical efficacy have properties as follows :
- Curing disease cough and throat throaty.- It is good to neutralize the smell of sweat sharp.
- Smooth urine.
- Cleaning the hull.
- Relieves thirst.
- Turn off the heat in the body / Heat inside.
- Relaxes at the same time reinforcing tendons nerves are effective.
- Reformer body strength.
- Increase vitality liver.
- Lowering high blood pressure.
- Curing diarrhea.
- Healing the inflammation and irritation of the bladder and kidneys.
20-50gr recipe ripe wheat in one liter of water, for 20 minutes, then filtered and taken the water, then used as a beverage and a solvent. The wheat bran can be used to wash and clean wounds festering. Thank you for reading this article.
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