Do you also believe, then, that bread, pasta and flour are poison?
I tend to realize that anything that causes an inflammatory response in the body is bad for you.
I am unaware that bread, flour and pasta have been shown to create an inflammatory response by the body that would allow us to implicate them in causing heart disease, obesity or diabetes. I've seen nothing that would cause us to label these things as "poison." But, then again, maybe I just missed it. I've pinged another FReeper who researches inflammation for his input.
I know it is a funky position to take, but if we were eating closer to how we were designed to eat...I think we'd be much healthier.
What were we designed to eat?
Inflammation: A Common Denominator of Disease
Sugar and white flour increase blood sugar, and even a modest increase in blood sugar generates pro-inflammatory chemicals. Most people eat these poisons daily in the form of bread, pasta, breakfast cereal, cookies, cakes, soft drinks, candy, etc.
In addition, sugar and white flour cause inflammation and disease by forming AGEs.
AGEs are produced when a protein reacts with sugar, resulting in damaged, cross-linked proteins. As the body tries to protect you by breaking these AGEs apart, immune cells secrete large amounts of inflammatory chemicals. Many of the diseases that we think of as part of aging are actually caused by this process. Depending on where the AGEs occur, the result can be arthritis, heart disease, cataracts, memory loss, wrinkled skin or diabetes complications, to name a few.
Do a search for "refined flour cause inflammation," and learn. The new research is quickly evolving.
Not everything that causes an inflammatory response can be said to be a “poison”. Otherwise peanut butter is a poison!
Some people have an allergy to gluten - this doesn’t make bread pasta and flour “poison”.
As to what we were designed to eat - most human populations in a primitive state (outside the Arctic) gain the majority of their calories from carbohydrates, with infrequently eaten meat and fat providing essential nutrients and dense high quality high calories for lean times.
Nowadays the lean times are few and far between - thus the high calorie nutrient dense foods we have grown to love are probably too high calorie for our far more sedentary and far less likely to every suffer privation situation.