Posted on 11/21/2013 4:24:03 AM PST by Renfield
It’s tempting to call David Perlmutter’s dietary advice radical. The neurologist and president of the Perlmutter Health Center in Naples, Fla., believes all carbs, including highly touted whole grains, are devastating to our brains. He claims we must make major changes in our eating habits as a society to ward off terrifying increases in Alzheimer’s disease and dementia rates.
And yet Perlmutter argues that his recommendations are not radical at all. In fact, he says, his suggested menu adheres more closely to the way mankind has eaten for most of human history.
What’s deviant, he insists, is our modern diet. Dementia, chronic headaches, depression, epilepsy and other contemporary scourges are not in our genes, he claims. “It’s in the food you eat,” Perlmutter writes in his bestselling new book, Grain Brain: The Surprising Truth About Wheat, Carbs, and Sugar – Your Brain’s Silent Killers. “The origin of brain disease is in many cases predominantly dietary.”...
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mm hmm
Hello......Dr. Atkins. Hated for being correct all these years about carbs.
srbfl
Yep, he’s been vilified many times over but there’s more and more info coming out about the truth.
Hmmm.
BS meter going off. Since the beginning of civilization, dietary choices have been primarily limited to what you chose to eat with your bread.
What has changed is that we have much more to eat with our bread.
I believe him. Low carb eating heals you up from the inside. It’s not a quick fix though and I find it tough to stay on the wagon.
Yes. Our diet should be mainly meat, fruits, vegetables and Scotch.
And you can get all the grain you need in your beer.
Before we get posts: most modern wheat bread is made from dwarf wheat. It has a high GI and is not the ‘staff of life’.
Look for bread made from einkorn wheat flour if you want to eat old-school bread.
Advocates of fad diets are - and have always been - a dime a dozen.
Another goofball grinning all the way to the bank, courtesy of bad science.
FRiend, our bread changed abruptly in the 20th century.
HAH, I like that diet!
I’m all in favor of low-carb diets and cutting back on sugar for health, but the grains bread and rice have been food staples for most of the world at least since biblical times. When Our Lord says “Not by bread alone shall man live”, the bread remains part of the diet, and was on the menu at Passover. I suppose that you can argue the unhybridized grain then was different, but that is a different argument than the author is making. He thinks we have to go back thousands of years in eating habits for problems that have come back in the last 30.
We know all too little about the life expectancy of pre-historic times. Chances are it was shorter, and most flks diddn’t have TIME to get Alzheimers. Add to that the sickliest babies didn’t make it at all, while we help them grow to maturity, retaining any genetic or traumatic weaknesses they already had.
The liberal Michael Poulan has a conservative sounding solution: Eat what your great-grand-parents ate. That was from his book “In Defense of Food”. Poulan is unusually level-headed on the diet question (”The Omnivore’s Dilemma”, at least the first half, is another good read) and brings up well-constructed arguments for his point of view.
Anyway, as I said before, grain can only be made safe when it has been properly fermented.
Yep. We also didn’t load up on it, as well as all sorts of other carbs in one sitting. That’s not to say that it may not have happened occasionally, but the meals weren’t what they are today, by far.
“Yes. Our diet should be mainly meat, fruits, vegetables and Scotch.”
I just knew this was coming...
I finally found some einkorn flour locally last night - on sale for $5.75 per 2 lb bag .. about twice as expensive as Pillsbury, but worth it!
Essentially all advances in human technology and culture, before last 100 years or so, took place in societies in which the primary food was one or another grain.
This is hardly evidence that eating grains devastates the brain.
One could make an argument that the grains we eat today are drastically different nutritionally from those eaten by Aristophanes, Confucius and Christ.
I missed the 1st three staples last night but finished with a couple scotch’s. 25% ain’t bad...
Dementia, chronic headaches, depression, epilepsy and other contemporary scourges are not in our genes,
And here I thought those thing were related to belonging to the Democrat party.
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