What's so bad about GRAINS?

"Jay, I hear you talk about avoiding wheat and other grains all the time- what's so bad about them??"


I hear this constantly.  "Amber waves of grain" has such a halo of goodness about it...

But, let's look at it from the WHEAT'S perspective:

The wheat itself, (and other grains as well- corn, barley, etc.- but wheat is the biggie here) does not want to be eaten! Would you willingly give your babies to a creature that wanted to eat them??

No, probably not...

You would fight, rend and claw to protect your progeny; as a mammal, that is your defense mechanism.

Plants, however, can't run or fight; they have developed different defense strategies to protect themselves and their young:  Anti- nutrients, aka POISONS!

Lectins:  These little anti-nutrients within grains are there to subtly poison any mammal that might eat them- they make the intestine permeable, leading to a "leaky gut" where bad things have free access into the bloodstream, making invasion of your body really easy!

Phytates: These are also built into the grains, and they make it impossible for your body to extract the nutrients you think you are getting from your "healthy whole grains".  So, you are basically consuming  empty calories along with your poisons...

Gluten:  Gluten causes many problems, like lectins, gluten will cause your gut to be "leaky", letting in all sorts of bad.  Can you say "itis"?  Well, any disease that ends in that is traceable to a leaky, grain compromised GUT!

In addition, gluten has been strongly associated with Cancer...

I think that wheat has figured out how defend itself rather well!

We just need to pay attention!!

Truly, there is no reason to eat wheat, or other grains, EVER.  The USDA "My Plate" agenda be damned!  They are only in the business of selling Government subsidized wheat, soy and corn.

Health to them is not even on their agenda!

So, be a "Paleo Pirate" yet again: sink those "wonderful grains" to the bottom of the Wine Dark Sea!

Arghhh!

J

Just eliminate wheat!

Ancient wheat was one thing...

It took people away from hunting and gathering, and made their nutrition much worse, of course.
(Much less in the way of nutrients, and more in the way of anti-nutrients).

But that is an ancient tale!  Let's move into the present:

Modern Wheat was developed in the 1970's, in a response to the perceived food shortage that loomed before us.  The poor would starve!  In a well-meaning effort, geneticists developed wheat strains (and this was pre-GMO) that would out produce any wheat in existence- in spades!


The result- wheat crops that produced huge amounts of "wheat"... unfortunately, this "wheat" was not the same as the biblical wheat that had existed for so long.  It had... more lectins (anti-nutrients), and otherwise so confused our digestive systems that it started causing:

1. The greatest epidemic of diabetes in History
2. Obesity to run rampant
3. Heart disease to affect vast numbers

And that is just a few effects of modern wheat!

If you would try one thing, and one thing only in your life, I would recommend this:

Eliminate Wheat!

Don't try to do anything else.  Just get this one thing out of your diet!  Eat sugar.  Smoke cigarettes.  Do whatever- but don't eat wheat.  Try it for a month.

This one experiment will prove to you that you don't need to suffer high blood pressure, acid reflux, obesity, diabetes... isn't that enough?

Just get rid of wheat for one month!

If you do that one thing, I believe you will be convinced!

That's about 50% of the battle...

We can deal with the rest later.

Check out this link to Wheat Belly by Dr. William Davis: Why eliminate WHEAT??

There is all the information you need.  Or, JUST DO IT- eliminate Wheat!


The science is all there, but...that's really ALL you need to know.

Jay