http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-505269_162-57505149/modern-wheat-a-perfect-chronic-poison-doctor-says/ (CBS News) 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. "(It's) the stuff that is least likely to have been changed by agribusiness," he said. "Certainly not grains. When I say grains, of course, over 90 percent of all grains we eat will be wheat, it's not barley... or flax. It's going to be wheat. "It's really a wheat issue." Some health resources, such as the Mayo Clinic, advocate a more balanced diet that does include wheat. But Davis said on "CTM" they're just offering a poor alternative. "All that literature says is to replace something bad, white enriched products with something less bad, whole grains, and there's an apparent health benefit - 'Let's eat a whole bunch of less bad things.' So I take...unfiltered cigarettes and replace with Salem filtered cigarettes, you should smoke the Salems. That's the logic of nutrition, it's a deeply flawed logic. What if I take it to the next level, and we say, 'Let's eliminate all grains,' what happens then? "That's when you see, not improvements in health, that's when you see transformations in health."
All these years of thinking it was carb shock after eating a sub or 2 slices of pizza.. I'd be sitting at my desk and practically falling asleep.. can't think.. can't function. FUCK YOU MONSANTO!!! FUCK YOU UP THE ASS WITH A WIRE-BRUSH!!
I was attending a public funds seminar back in the spring and this one lady behind me kept yammering endlessly about how she'd given up all wheat in her diet to anyone within earshot. She'd pull out a snack and tell us all how it didn't have wheat in it, and when it was lunch time she made a big show of asking the waiter (who had no effin clue) if the sauce on the chicken had wheat in it. By the fourth day I was ready to shove a big wheat roll down her throat to shut her up. Anyway, I couldn't help but notice that over a dozen people commented on how much weight she'd lost. Apparently just by getting the wheat out of her diet she'd dropped 44 pounds and it was still coming off. Makes ya wonder.
When can we finally charge Monsanto with the hundreds of millions of counts of murder, and hundreds of millions of counts of attempted murder that they have coming to them ??
You pays your money and takes your choice. Not particularly defending Monsanto, but the trade off in this case seems to be eating poison or starving since the chemicals and genetic "improvements" enable much greater production, thus increased population.
True enough.. But it seems as though many of their "improvements" go out of their way to knowingly line their pockets at the expense of people's health. And only they and their scientists know how unhealthy it is. Seems a bit evil.. I've got nothing against anybody lining their pockets. I hope to do it myself a little someday. -- Also, I wouldn't mind seeing a little cutting back on the increased population part, but that's a whole 'nuther topic.
True. Didn't mention it because it's pretty plain. Also true of many things man has done to himself over time, more's the pity that homo sapiens doesn't do well with precognition or prognostication. I honestly can't say that Monsanto didn't do enough research before marketing a product that would do mankind (in general) and farmers (in specific) some good. There are a number of epic fails on humankind's record, thinking here of thalidomide and agent orange as pretty good examples of how man has stomped on his own (_________parts and pieces____.)
The change in wheat was long before the 60's and 70's. No genetic modification, just old time cross breeding and such. 1920's, 30's, and 40's. The 'Amber Waves of Grain' were several feet tall with small seed heads. They got knocked down easily by weather. That made them hard for machines to harvest. 'Wheat Belly' is a good book to read on the subject. Unintended Consequence and all.
