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In reply to the discussion: Modern wheat a "perfect, chronic poison," doctor says [View all]Shivering Jemmy
(900 posts)33. Where did disease come from before modern wheat?
'Modern "Wheat" or more precisely Glutten is at the heart of all disease....'
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no. different substance. opiate blockers bind to opiate receptors. they have
HiPointDem
Nov 2012
#116
I took myself off wheat for about 10 months a while back. By doing that, I demolished my
Squinch
Nov 2012
#63
Probably because the disease has not progressed to attacking the intestinal lining
FarCenter
Nov 2012
#222
every food plant in the world has been selectively bred, not to mention the semi-
HiPointDem
Nov 2012
#51
Yippiee! Does that mean I can go on eating it until I have to wear glasses?
left on green only
Nov 2012
#148
Same here. I have to wonder if the weight loss issues referred to in the article...
wakemewhenitsover
Nov 2012
#198
Xfundy was simply referencing an article about alternatives to wheat. I didn't take that as
Squinch
Nov 2012
#129
Anything that doesn't further enrich the death merchants is woo, silly rabbit. n/t
Egalitarian Thug
Nov 2012
#13
Refusing to dismiss claims out of hand is not the same as accepting them.
Egalitarian Thug
Nov 2012
#86
Atheism is a religion? Why not wheat? Look, I'm personally pretty sure that the answer to most
Egalitarian Thug
Nov 2012
#141
I agree that this guy is hyping to high heaven - And that he is playing loose with the facts
Chemisse
Nov 2012
#189
it's certainly woo if it promotes falsehoods like "gliadin is a new protein".
HiPointDem
Nov 2012
#56
It might be wrong, but using pejoratives is of no help and, as you might know, there
Egalitarian Thug
Nov 2012
#77
Then you should know that you don't know, and you should also know that the wheat we are being
Egalitarian Thug
Nov 2012
#91
i fully acknowledge that *all* wheat we eat today isn't precisely the same as
HiPointDem
Nov 2012
#95
When you claim the difference is a protein that has been in wheat since antiquity
jeff47
Nov 2012
#98
Your mind simply cannot grasp how little I care about your opinion. You do this all the time,
Egalitarian Thug
Nov 2012
#106
Truth cannot be suppressed forever, no matter how big a budget is behind the lies. K&R n/t
Egalitarian Thug
Nov 2012
#12
What is, is. Real results and real science. You just have to get out of American fantasyland to
Egalitarian Thug
Nov 2012
#21
Then there you go. Results are what matters and we are all individuals.
Egalitarian Thug
Nov 2012
#101
if you have to sell your results by lying, they're not all that matters. if i secretly fed
HiPointDem
Nov 2012
#176
First you claim a false equivalency and that is just cheap. If you fed me a tapeworm that would be
Egalitarian Thug
Nov 2012
#180
you & *your* buddies seem to think its your right to promote health claims in
HiPointDem
Nov 2012
#185
So, you're going to talk around the question and try to characterize your weirdness
Egalitarian Thug
Nov 2012
#202
Everything my grandmother cooked until she was 89 years old was cooked in lard,
Yavapai
Nov 2012
#88
You think sno-balls are food? Try living on them for a month. You can live on eggs fried in
Egalitarian Thug
Nov 2012
#149
You make some valid points, but to imply that what is being done today is in any way
Egalitarian Thug
Nov 2012
#182
I read his book "Wheat Belly" about a year ago. Ya want the science? Read the book.
geckosfeet
Nov 2012
#27
So if I wrote a book talking about the dangers of modern oxygen, would you believe it?
jeff47
Nov 2012
#57
How, exactly, am I misinterpreting his claim that gliadin is a new protein? (nt)
jeff47
Nov 2012
#115
no human food is the food humans 'cut their teeth on'. they've all been modified.
HiPointDem
Nov 2012
#65
I would not be at all surprised if wheat had been modified a lot more than most other grains, other
Squinch
Nov 2012
#74
they look pretty similar to me. and they're all modifications as well. but if indians
HiPointDem
Nov 2012
#90
I think his point is that the smaller chromsome set produces fewer varieties of gliadins/gluteins
geckosfeet
Nov 2012
#156
I truly believe that Modern "Wheat" or more precisely Glutten is at the heart of all disease....
blue sky at night
Nov 2012
#29
True. But there are immune system diseases that are exploding in incidence now.
Squinch
Nov 2012
#75
why did japanese get sick, then? they barely ate wheat before WW2. but they
HiPointDem
Nov 2012
#103
Wheat requires huge amounts of dihydrogen monoxide, which is incorporated into every cell of it.
Ian David
Nov 2012
#34
His book title is Wheat Belly: Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight, and Find your Path Back to Health
Maineman
Nov 2012
#35
I don't trust doctors trying to sell books anymore than I trust corporations
liberal_at_heart
Nov 2012
#39
Look around you. Point to something in your room that isn't a chemical.
AtheistCrusader
Nov 2012
#130
as i & many others said on the identical OP last month, gliadin is not a new protein.
HiPointDem
Nov 2012
#38
yeah, what about the arsenic found naturally in foods? why is no one talking about it?
HiPointDem
Nov 2012
#76
i specifically said that all plants have defense mechanisms. i also said lectins
HiPointDem
Nov 2012
#154
they all have lectin. which is more or less destroyed when you cook it. so unless
HiPointDem
Nov 2012
#83
That is what nutritionists and doctors are apparently concernerd about.
undergroundpanther
Nov 2012
#102
The food value of protein is not protein, it is the amino acids that it gets broken down into. nt
Bernardo de La Paz
Nov 2012
#201
I did it for a while. For a few days it's hard, but after that, you don't really miss it.
Squinch
Nov 2012
#82
In a way, though, I understand it. Wheat IS so prevalent. It almost is like saying
Squinch
Nov 2012
#214
The Berkeley Health Newsletter is one of the best sources for food, healthful living, and the like.
byeya
Nov 2012
#192
That's it. Just don't eat X so much. Almost never necessary to cut X out entirely.
Bernardo de La Paz
Nov 2012
#203
Often I feel like I'm going to the "Poison Shop" anymore when I go grocery shopping. n/t
RKP5637
Nov 2012
#152
All "excellent" suggestions. I'm finding more and more I have food allergies to what were once just
RKP5637
Nov 2012
#166
Whole wheat pasta is and will continue to be one of my main starches...
Systematic Chaos
Nov 2012
#188
the fact is that gliadin is a major component of gluten and a huge proportion of the
NoMoreWarNow
Nov 2012
#196
Good Lord! All the people who have lost so much weight in this thread! Congratulations!
Squinch
Nov 2012
#218
The left is full of "nutritionists" who have never taken a physiology or biochemistry course.
FarCenter
Nov 2012
#221