You may have heard the expression knowledge is power.

Well, today we're gonna give you more power to control your diet and lifestyle by giving you the facts.

Welcome to the Nutrition Facts Podcast.

I'm your host, Dr. Michael Greger.

Today on the show we discover how whole, ideally intact grains, ancient and modern alike should be an integral part of everyone's diet.

Let's start by looking at ancient grains, sounds mysterious, right?

The number one killer in the United States and around the world is what we eat.

Killing millions more than tobacco, for example.

What are the five most important things we can do to improve our diets based on the single most comprehensive global study of the health impact of nutrition?

Eat less salt.

Eat more nuts, eat more non-starchy vegetables, and more fruit, and finally eat more whole grains.

Any particular type of whole grains?

What about so-called ancient grains? Are they any better than modern varieties?

Like what about camo?

The so-called mummy wheat, supposedly unearthed from an Egyptian tomb.

After World War II, the wheat industry selected particularly high yielding varieties for pasta and bread.

Over the past few years though, some of the more ancient varieties have been reintroduced on the market,

find basically as those that haven't changed over the agricultural revolutions of the last century.

Nusricially, Einkorn wheat, the oldest wheat and camo, have more of the eyesight improving yellow crod-noyed pigments like lutein and zizanthin,

compared to modern bread and pastry wheat because the pigments have been bred out of the bread intentionally.

People want their white bread white, but modern pasta flour, Durham wheat, maintains much of that yellow hue nutrition.

Yes, modern wheat may have less lutein, but for example tends to have more vitamin E based on straight,

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