Grains are addicting!

I am so glad, someone is saying the same thing and there is even a book about it. Great. Read about it here:

A grain-fee diet is the answer to a lot of health problems, it seems. That implies therefore that eating grains is a contributory fact to a lot of health problems. Actually, its a bit more complicated than that. It looks like we humans , with our omnivorous habits, are adapted to eating a small amount of grain-based food with no particular problems. However the "addicting" factor means we eat more and more of grain based foods and find them generally irresistable even when we are not hungry. Soon, our whole diet can end up founded on grains and sugars - and foods made of them and with them.

It's not the grains that do the damage, its constant overdose on grain-based foods. Obesity, fluid retention and skeletal problems seem to be some of the many ways our poor paleolithic bodies are trying to adapt to a modern, grain-based diet. People with a health or digestive problem, who discover an allergy or intolerance to wheat or other grains such as corn or the barley in beer, are faced with the bleak prospect of life without most of their favourite " food fixes". Many of them give up at the first hurdle and decide to simply live with their symptoms; others do try very hard but fail again and again and end up sinking sink into that all-too-familiar food addict's gloom and despondency.

A few recognise the impossibility of ever changing their diet so drastically and so limit their food intake with bariatric surgery. They starve slowly and lose weight, calling this a "success story" while all the while everyone is missing the entire point. [sigh]

Its the easiest weight loss diet in the word, eating grain free, as long as one isn't a food addict.