I just read this blog entry from Dr. Keith Harris of PaNu fame. His blog is filled with great nutrition advice and he doesn't mince words. When asked questions about the Paleo diet, people are always amazed when I tell them I've cut out grains. I usually get the response, "I can see why you'd cut out refined flour and sugar...but why WHOLE GRAINS?" Dr. Harris has great insight into that answer and if you have time, check out his blog here: Where are all the Healthy Whole Grains?
He says: "Increase Fats to 65-70%, and cut out all residual grains, legumes, and starchy vegetables like potatoes, corn and rice so that only the green salads and non starchy veggies are left. This will get carbs down to 10% (roughly 50g per day) and absolutely minimize glucose, fructose and insulin effects. If you agree that in a food- abundant environment we can keep our insulin levels low with this regime, then it will be very hard to achieve this without eliminating grains. Second, there is no downside to eliminating the few remaining "healthy whole grains" after the white sugar and flour are gone because there never were any "healthy whole grains" in the first place."
He went on to make the point, "I am still waiting for someone to show me a shred of evidence that there is anything essential we can only get from grains, gluten or not .
Grains are all high-carbohydrate foods that are deficient in healthy fats, lacking in vitamins compared to other sources, and have proteins that are poison to a large segment of the population. (Gluten)
The only way to get a "wholesome healthy whole grain" is to put the words "wholesome" and "healthy" in front of the words "whole grain". The rest is just a fantasy made necessary by our culture's long history of dependence on cereal grains, juiced by politically correct forces that were created in the 1970's by George McGovern's meddling, the demonization of fat and meat as decadent, and the confluence of these forces with Aquarian Rousseauist fantasies of a lost utopia where no animals need to die." He's a pretty entertaining writer with lots of science to back him up. Give his blog a read...
And if this doesn't change your mind about keeping grains out of the mix, then type in the word "Lectins" into your google browser and read the stuff that comes up. You'll never want to eat grains again!
~Frowney Face Bread image was copied from: Love to Be Fit for Life Blog!
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