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Post by harryincali on Feb 19, 2013 0:19:47 GMT -5
(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." Read more... www.cbsnews.com/8301-505269_162-57505149/modern-wheat-a-perfect-chronic-poison-doctor-says/
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Post by bones on Feb 19, 2013 7:52:19 GMT -5
I tend to believe that the wheat products do increase my appetite. The best for me is small portions of everything and totally avoiding soda, products made from flour,and high sodium foods. And still it is a struggle.
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Post by ignatiusjean on Feb 19, 2013 9:29:43 GMT -5
To paraphrase a famous economist: In the long run, we all will die... what's the next one that will kill us?
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