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In reply to the discussion: Modern wheat a "perfect, chronic poison," doctor says [View all]sense
(1,219 posts)an excellent book. Gary Taubes goes over the research and control of obesity for the last 200 years or so and explains in great detail how we got so off track in what we "know" about it. I cut wheat and all grains, starches and sugars out of my diet more than a year ago and it made an enormous difference in my health and weight. I used to have type 2 diabetes and now do not. I've lost weight and and gained lots of energy. My spouse lost more than 50 lbs and got off all but one medication. We have several couple friends and many co-workers who at first just laughed at what we were doing, but one by one, they've followed the "weird" experiment we tried and have seen drastic improvements in their health as well.
I think there's a lot of confusion and a lot of reluctance to try anything new, but I think that many people would benefit from giving up at least wheat. Try it for 30 days and see if you feel better. If you don't then perhaps it's not for you. I know that I can eat wheat occasionally and don't seem to experience any immediate distressing affects, but what I do experience is an enormous craving for it for many days after that's very hard to get past. I just want to keep eating things with wheat. It's much easier and I'm able to function much better when I don't eat it. I've gotten off all medications and would never go back to eating the Standard American Diet (SAD).
Pizza really seems to be a tough one for people to give up.... but good health always makes me think twice now!
Here's a good video from a Swedish doctor that's very informative about diet and health and the grand experiment that's been performed on us by our government and the ptb over the last 30-40 years.
http://vimeo.com/couchmode/ancestralhealthsymposium/videos/sort:newest/29464690