Modern Wheat a "Perfect, Chronic Poison"?

[alfreda89]

Have you heard Dr. William Davis, the author of Wheat Belly, talk about how wheat changed in the 1960s and 1970s, and that our obesity and health problems may be linked to that change? Not just those of us having trouble with gluten. There's the protein gliadin to consider -- a protein that locks into the same centers of the brain as opiates. If it does cause many people to overeat by 20-25% DAILY, imagine what that means.

This is fixable, but not easily -- the modern wheat produces 10x the amount of grain that older strains produce. I wonder if we could switch cattle to this wheat, and wheat eaters could have older, safer grains?

In the meantime?

Stop eating wheat.

Comments

Cattle and Wheat

[scott merritt (from livejournal.com)]

I wonder if we could switch cattle to this wheat

Cattle are not designed to eat grains. When they do it alters the ph balance in their digestive system and allows infections such as e coli to occur (which is why they have to feed anti-bio-tics to cattle in feed lot operations and only discontinue 5 days before slaughter - which is not a long enough period for all of the drugs to dissipate)

Re: Cattle and Wheat

[alfreda89.livejournal.com]

I wondered about that, Scott. How do they feed all that cattle corn, then? It's a grain.

Maybe none of us are designed to eat grains?

Now you're sounding like a

[sheilagh.livejournal.com]

paleolithic/ancestral diet type! ;-)

Re: Now you're sounding like a

[alfreda89.livejournal.com]

Well, I ate that way for a while, when I was most ill, before I went macro. I still eat as clean a meat and fish as I can find.

And right now, my body wants only rice, no other grains. And it doesn't even want baked goods made from other grains.