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Posted on 09/29/2012 5:32:25 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Modern wheat is a "perfect, chronic poison," according to Dr. William Davis, a cardiologist who has published a book all about the world's most popular grain.
Davis said that the wheat we eat these days isn't the wheat your grandma had: "It's an 18-inch tall plant created by genetic research in the '60s and '70s," he said on "CBS This Morning." "This thing has many new features nobody told you about, such as there's a new protein in this thing called gliadin. It's not gluten. I'm not addressing people with gluten sensitivities and celiac disease. I'm talking about everybody else because everybody else is susceptible to the gliadin protein that is an opiate. This thing binds into the opiate receptors in your brain and in most people stimulates appetite, such that we consume 440 more calories per day, 365 days per year."
Asked if the farming industry could change back to the grain it formerly produced, Davis said it could, but it would not be economically feasible because it yields less per acre. However, Davis said a movement has begun with people turning away from wheat - and dropping substantial weight.
"If three people lost eight pounds, big deal," he said. "But we're seeing hundreds of thousands of people losing 30, 80, 150 pounds. Diabetics become no longer diabetic; people with arthritis having dramatic relief. People losing leg swelling, acid reflux, irritable bowel syndrome, depression, and on and on every day."
To avoid these wheat-oriented products, Davis suggests eating "real food," such as avocados, olives, olive oil, meats, and vegetables....
(Excerpt) Read more at cbsnews.com ...
On the scale of problematicals, starving to death is much less preferable than eating something that might be somewhat unhealthful.
IF (repeat, IF) this worries you, look for older, heirloom varieties; if stored properly, they can not only be eaten, but also planted.
BOOKbump
Different plants are different, thats reality.
This article is not about celibacy disease. That is real, obviously, but only affects a tiny minority. Thus article is about a quack calling wheat a “poison” because something in it increases your appetite. Which is just a way to grab headlines.
We are fat because we eat too much and mive around too little, period. Not because sugar and wheat are secretly poisons. Which is not to say you won’t lose weight easier by targeting what calories you eliminate. The easiest way is to cut out what is most obviously bad for you, which is usually what’s tastiest ot most addictive. Or just wgat makes you feel worst after your done with it, as in comparing a giant bowl of pasta to a carrot, or something. We don’t need to blame phantoms.
You’re talking about natural selection. By that logic we shouldn’t eat chicken or steak because if you could see cows and chickens before they were domesticated, boy oh boy. Except we did domesticate them, as we did strawberries and wheat. And we made them better, or rather harnessed their evolution to our purposes. It just so happened that when we got really good at it we also got fat for unrelated reasons.
I meant celibacy disease, stupid computer.
Then one day somebody had a mutant baby and that baby grew up able to eat the otherwise dangerous to eat wheat, barley and rye.
Eventually there were a lot of babies who could eat those dangerous plants, and they began to outnumber the original, non-mutated humans!
Now they imagine wheat, barley and rye are healthful and that the original model humans with all the correct genes are somehow DAMAGED.
We have the same situation with lactose intolerance. The original people did not drink milk after childhood because they could no longer digest it properly ~ unless they turned it into aged cheddar or yoghurt.
Then, there's rice ~ it was first domesticated in the Aleutian islands and brought South to East Asia where mutant people arose who could eat it EXCEPT 10% of Japanese cannot! The mechanism is similar to that which prevents West Asian folks from eating wheat, barley and rye although the allergic expression is different. They lose their skin to great welts, whereas with coeliac you just lose your guts!
Fortunately there's corn. There's tapioca. There's sorghum. There's ....... well, a wide variety of other nourishing and edible plants. That's why we still have the original models of humanity wandering about
That's 3.54% of the population in this country. When a family has a single member with coeliac or wheat gluten intolerance that means the diets of all the others will be limited ~ since the impact of a mistake is so devastating.
That gets you up to 10% affected in some way and at that point the folks who run grocery stores and package food start getting really concerned.
But let's go beyond that a bit ~ there are related problems. Many of the folks with what's called autism also have something called leaky bowel syndrome. little teeny tiny holes show up in their bowels and allow the entry of peptides that would otherwise be prevented from entry into the blood stream. It's not coeliac but the treatment is the same ~ avoid foods with the same problematic peptides found in wheat, barley and rye. That's another 4 or 5% of the population restricting family diets due to the ailment of a single member.
You encounter a 15% situation (Combined coeliac and autism) and groceries do more than get concerned ~ they PANIC!!!!!
Beer marketers shed tears and vinters leap for show.
Up until some time in the 1930s it was believed that Cystic Fibrosis (CF) AND Coeliac were the same disease. Some of the dietary restrictions are still in order with both. But either condition will create intense concern over what the children eat and that affects the bottom line at Safeway and Giant in ways you almost can't imagine. I think Wal-mart is still a gluten free holdout ~ last thing they'll do is start selling $3.50 loaves of bread to a minority.
Yes, but modern wheat isn’t a poison. That’s also reality. Ditto for modern corn, chicken, beef, etc.
Yes, but modern wheat isn’t a poison. That’s also reality. Ditto for modern corn, chicken, beef, etc.
“Yes, but modern wheat isn’t a poison. “
And you know this how? I’m sure “wheat” as a general statement isn’t poison, in fact the doctor says that in his report. He says some modern strains contain a protein which acts as an opiate.
I read “Wheat Belly” and immediately gave up wheat and my belly is GONE. I exercise and lift weights and the six pack is back!
:-)
Note: this topic is from 9/29/2012. Thanks 2ndDivisionVet. Low-gluten diets are this decade's fad, the same way low-fat, chronic fatigue, epstein-barr, etc have had their time.
You mean like the Starlink that got into the Taco Shells that put my mother in the hospital ER with allergic reactions, repeatedly, before we figured out what was causing the problem? (She had never had a reaction to corn before that, and had used that brand of taco shells without a problem prior to that).
It may not be an experiment on the human race, but if your field of non-Monsanto corn gets pollinated by the Monsanto corn across the road, they'll sure come after YOU for patent infringement, so maybe there is some sort of 'conspiracy' in there somewhere.
Cheers!
Here, you might enjoy this.
Cheers!
All I eat are Burger King Croissan’Wiches (delete the meat), mashed potatoes and cold turkey sandwiches (white bread). Does this stuff affect me? Oh, I just ate a cup of Lucky Charms.
“I think Wal-mart is still a gluten free holdout “
Our Walmart here in li’l ol’ Rockwood, TN, does have a gluten-free section. It’s not very big, but it’s there.
Atkins was right. Minimize flour and sugar consumption, and you’ll do fine.
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