Boy, slap a doctorate on a person and immediately their theories become respectable, no matter how ridiculous.

So in other words, shut up, stop thinking, and eat your grains.

Because after all, the government is never wrong.

I’m SO glad I gave up grains. And sugar. And processed food. And started eating lots of butter, lean grassfed beef, home-raised eggs and raw milk with some vegetables (some home grown)thrown in for good measure.

I CURED my pre-diabetes. Cured. C.U.R.E.D. 5 years ago no less. Dropped 30 lbs too. My last Ha1C was 5.0 just 2 weeks ago. Five point zero. Someone please tell the ADA. Wait, they’re on the take too and advocate grains. I NEVER teach ADA to any diabetic.

You missed on your statement. I can assure you that the statement you just made shows that you have never spent time in a lab studying the effects of exercise and diet. You say the country would save “countless of billions in healthcare costs by stripping modern wheat from our diet and grain based processed garbage.” I can assure you that it is actually a lack of physical activity, and not the foods you listed, as the underlying cause to the issue you stated. In fact, you may want to view some important and highly reputable research that studies the effects of exercise on the effects of Flow Mediated Dilation, especially afterconsuming a high fat foods. Consuming diets high in fat, proven through clinical research, basically destroys your arteries. Since you are chosing to use comparisons, I will too, but it’s basically like setting a nuclear bomb off in your arteries. However, exercise has been proven to be 100% protective of that effect, and why? Because your cells stimulate Nitrous Oxide, which widens the arteries and allows enhanced circulation. This is why cardiovascular disease is so low in populations that exercise regularly. In fact, there is a study going on at Arizona State right now that is looking at exercises effects on a totally crappy high fat diet. You’d be surprised and probably change your opinion. Why do you think our ancestors could consume diets high in fat and stay slim, because they were physically active every day; it’s not the diet, it’s the exercise.

Another statistic I would like to provide you. You say it is wheat causing a health care problem. I say it’s exercise. Let me give you another figure. you figure about $50 billion dollars per year goes into stent proceedures. Stents are used to widen the artery because someone is at risk for a heart attack. But a stent only widens the artery in that specific place, it doesn’t treat the entire vascular system. Meanwhile, exercise – which treats the entire vascular system, virtually costs nothing because we can all technically go out and run, hike, go on long walks, etc… and exercise is proven to have the same effect, in fact a better effect, than the stent. In conclussion, just that one procedure would save the US about $50 billion per year if people just got active.

FURTHERMORE, cancer. Look at how much cancer costs us. Well exercise has been proven to reduce many forms of cancer, so again, how much would that save?

IIn fact, look at just sitting time. A huge cross-sectional study shows that those people that are current smokers, that sit less than 3 hours a day, have a lower death rate than people that don’t smoke, but sit more than 6 hours a day. Just sitting will kill you. IT’S PHYSICAL ACTIVITY, NOT WHEAT.

ANOTHER MAJOR ISSUE IS DIABETES! Well, how much money does that cost our economy each year. Everyone thinks diabetes is a fat issue or a carb issue. WRONG!!!!! It is a lack of skeletal muscle use. When you eat ANY food it turns into glucose which will then immediately store itself in the muscle. Once the muscle is full it stores in the liver. Well, if you don’t have contracting muscles, something that exercise provides, then you have glucose that is just sitting in the muscle. So, let me ask you this, now what happens when you eat a meal, it is converted to glucose, but now that glucose has now where to go because the muscles and liver are full????? Well, this is a major factor as to how the cells start to become resistant to insulin and you develop type 2 diabetes. IN fact, there is a study in which a doctor took type 2 diabetics and loaded them up on a ton of fiber rich food (3 times the recommended amount), and within two weeks they were off of their prescribed insulin. The body responded positively. If people were physically active, they would have contracting muscles, the glucose would be utilized, and the body would stay in a nice balanced state. AGAIN, MORE PROOF AS TO HOW EXERCISE IS WHAT WILL SOLVE THE HEALTHCARE CRISIS.

I can assure you that if you spent time in exercise physiology labs and were a part of some of these studies, you would not make the comment you did. Heck, look studies up yourself.

can totally assure you that if I chose to eat wheat products, and lots of carbs, which I do now, I would not be overweight and have heatlh issues if I chose to exercise. ALL food is bad for you if you sit on your butt all day and consume too much food and didn’t exercise. It doesn’t matter what kind it is. Food contains energy, it’s a chemistry 101 lesson, and if you do not utilize that energy it stores; it doesn’t matter what source of food it is. This is why Dr. Gaesser said it’s the calories and not the wheat that causes obesity. Yeah, because you don’t utilize that energy. Why is it that people can’t understand the most basic science behind energy? It blows my mind. The sun can burn every day because it has a huge supply of energy causing chemical reactions, once it burns through all that energy, it will die. Why do you eat food? HMMMM, because the body needs energy to exist. So if I give the body too much energy and don’t use it, then it stores. Too much stores, and I will start having health issues. Now, what is so difficult for people to wrap their mind around that. It’s a fact that carbs are lower in energy than fat, so how is it possible that this is the cause of people getting fat? How is it simply not a matter of exercise? In fact, a diet high in carbohydrates and low in fat is the prescription for someone that has diabetes!!!! LOL!!!! yet people say carbs are bad!!! How funny!

For most of the rest of us, it takes years of constant exposure which raises systemic inflammation levels, bringing on a myriad of auto-immune disorders which have been delineated above.

Doesn’t make it any less dangerous, just more insidious.