Dogman wrote:
Doug Freyburger wrote:

Thus creditting the wrong thing just like I wrote.

I don't understand what that means.

Right. Getting cause and effect wrong by ignoring a ton of other
contributing causes.

Remove wheat, feel better. Credit the most recent mutations in the
wheat genome. Bzzt. Fail to take into account the carbs, the fact that
people have long been intolerant of wheat in specific and grains in
general.

Consider the observations that appear in the bibliography of the Protein
Power book series - When any society switched from hunting to grain
farming the general health of the skeletons went down the toilet.
That's been happening to various societies for ten thousand years so
blaming mutations of the last 50 years misses a lot.

Pretty close to the same percentage of the population will get the same
effect from removing potatoes, and a small percentage of them will
benefit because they didn't know they are nightshade intolerant. But
just like wheat most will improve because of carb count.

Remove rice, feel better. Same pattern and again it have little to do
with recent mutations in the wheat genome.

Many times I've read statements like -

There never used to be all this wheat intolerance.

Sometimes the conclusion is - So it's nonsense. Wheat isn't bad.

Sometimes the conclusion is - So it must be recent changes. Because all
previous observations are completely reliable and wheat was never bad
before.

But both conclusions miss the exact same points. Wheat is one of
several sources of high carb in our diets and most of us used to eat way
too much carb. And some of us were wheat intolerant without ever
knowing it because we were told that wheat is never a problem so we kept
looking elsewhere for what was wrong.

Should we go low carb? Yes. Cauliflower beats any sweet or starchy
food. Should we limit grains in general and consider them no more
valuable than any other vegetable carb gram for carb gram? Yes. Carb
gram for carb gram root vegetables tend to beat grains. Should we
avoid wheat more than other grains? Yes. There are more people who have
problems with gluten bearing grains than people who have problems with
other types of grain, carb gram for carb gram. Should be avoid modern
wheat more than heirloom wheat? Yes. There exist people who, while
already low carbing, found they tolerate spelt, kamut and other heirloom
wheats but get symptoms from modern varieties. Those are sorted in
order of how many people benefit from what cause, yet Dr Drew only
focused on the least common cause.

"Wheat Belly" is a stunt to make it sound like it's not Atkins. The
book could have been "French Fry Belly" and had much the same result.