mm hmm
Hello......Dr. Atkins. Hated for being correct all these years about carbs.
srbfl
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
BookMark
Total BS!!!
how do you eat fat?
what fat would you eat
My wife has done a fair amount of research about food, and her latest discovery is that it’s not so much grains and gluten that is the issue, it’s the yeasts being used today. Since the 80s, the available yeasts have been seriously modified.
We have been making our own bread from a wild culture (sourdough). It is very tasty and doesn’t cause any side effects.
Seriously, my health has improved a lot since virtually eliminating wheat from my diet. The ADM GMO concoctions on American plates seem to bear little resemblance to wheat as it was historically consumed.
Just litened to the Gluten E-Summit. It was good. I am a person who always tries to aviod carbs, but I have got to get serious!
If Mr. Perlmutter doesn’t like grain, he shouldn’t eat it.
Otherwise, he should leave those of us who do the Hell alone.
Quack alert! Quack alert!
Good thing the brain doesn’t need glucose to function properly. Otherwise, we might actually need carbohydrates in our diet.