Book: Dangerous Grains

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This is a new book, and I just got a copy. For anyone who is

interested in gluten-grain issues, this is a good book! The

authors are rather conservative, and basically try to give

an overview of the current research (without trying to

force a lot of conclusions about what the reader should do).

However, I DID find it interesting that they also are for

a rather NT-style diet: soups with bones, organ meats,

good fats. Eating more game meats and grass-fed meats.

Their take on gluten issues is interesting. The " celiac " reaction

is found in probably 1/100 people. But that is only a subset

of the people reacting. Something like 20% of people have

anti-gliadin antibodies, which means the gluten is in fact

leaking into the bloodstream. If it leaks into your bloodstream,

it acts as an opioid, and their feeling is that opioids in general

cause in increase in all kinds of cancers by disabling the T cells.

(Addicts tend to have very high cancer rates). However,

in the meantime it makes you feel good, hence the fact

that most " comfort foods " are glutinous. (Casien has the

same problem, but not so potent).

Which may explain the observation someone made that the

anti-cancer diets, while very different, all seem to exclude gluten.

Also the opioids cause insulin to be over-produced, leading

to more fat storage (and more diabetes type problems).

Also gluten is just not very well digested, and if it does leak

through the gut, it damages other organs on contact. The opioid

and gluten problems will happen to anyone who has a somewhat

leaky gut (which is a big chunk of the population), NOT just to

the people who happen to be genetically inclined to celiac.

Anyway, their take is that gluten-overdose is going to turn

out to be THE BIG health problem of the last century, and

it's going to be a big issue in this one as the researchers

come to terms with the data that is coming in now. The research

has been going on for a long time now, but, the authors say,

no one really wants to believe that something as obiquitous

and well-thought of as wheat could be harmful: and for a lot

of people there is a religous aspect.

Which is pretty much what I was feeling, based on my experiences,

but it was odd to see it in print from some rather conservative

sources. I kind of think a LOT of the degeneration Price saw

in the primatives was from the introduction of wheat products:

the wheat issues take about 20 years to surface, which is

about what he observed.

Heidi