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Good day everyone,

I have a pressing question about something that has been worrying me for some time: the supposed extreme harmfulness of wheat

About ten years ago I read that grain /wheat (processed into bread, seitan, etc.) is very harmful to the intestines and health in general. It causes inflammation in the intestinal wall and it affects your immune system among other things. The grain consumed by us today would hardly resemble the beneficial variety that our early ancestors would have consumed. I then started baking bread from teff flour myself.

I would like to know what the WFPB movement has to say about this

Here is what Dr McDougall has to say about it.....

https://www.drmcdougall.com/misc/2008nl/jan/grains.htm

https://www.drmcdougall.com/2014/01/31/ ... ain-brain/


Here are some articles and posts from me on the topic

Wheat Belly—An Analysis of Selected Statementsand Basic Theses from the Book
https://wholegrainscouncil.org/sites/de ... nesCFW.pdf

Gluten-Free Diet: Imprudent Dietary Advice for the General Population?
https://jandonline.org/article/S2212-2672(12)00743-5/fulltext

Body mass index and the risk of obesity in coeliac disease treated with the gluten-free diet.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22316503

Overweight in celiac disease: prevalence, clinical characteristics, and effect of a gluten-free diet.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17032202

Odd Spending: Why We're Wasting Billions on Gluten-Free Food
By Martha C. WhiteMarch 13, 201318
http://business.time.com/2013/03/13/why ... pt=hp_bn18

Gluten Intolerance and the Nocebo Effect
http://www.slate.com/articles/health_an ... ingle.html

Can an increase in celiac disease be attributed to an increase in the gluten content of wheat as a consequence of wheat breeding?
J Agric Food Chem. 2013 Feb 13;61(6):1155-9. doi: 10.1021/jf305122s. Epub 2013 Jan 31.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23311690

Does wheat make us fat and sick?
Journal of Cereal Science. Volume 58, Issue 2, September 2013, Pages 209–215
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/ar ... 969#bbib15

Is Gluten The New Peanut?
http://www.drmcdougall.com/forums/viewt ... 70#p438070

Enjoy your grains, intact and whole!
Jeff

Thank you very much, Jeff. I'll have to take some time to go through all that literature. I am very curious about your findings. After all, the opponents of wheat also seem to rely on solid scientific research

I would also recommend reading this full thread

The Importance of Evidence
viewtopic.php?f=22&t=27778