An interesting read is Wheat Belly by Cardiologist Dr William Davies where he pin points the start of the obesity epidemic to when wheat was introduced as a necessary element for a balanced diet. He also goes into the history of wheat, how it has been modified over the years, what our Grandparents ate is not the same strain that we now consume.
Don't know about you, I've developed a habit of looking at the content of Joe Public's supermarket shopping trolley. I can't help but feel the majority possibly have some form of vitamin deficiency with their selection of foods. Another thought I have often nurtured, if everyone ate healthily turning away from the bulking agents, fillers, addictive additions would there be a global food shortage?
Nothing is healthy.
Possibly if you relied solely on completely organic, but then there would be only enough food for a very small percentage of the population.
I certainly would be priced into death.
But then, so would everyone when the first natural crop failure happened.
You could move down the chain, to reared meat, with the associated drugs, feeds, factory farming.
Or the crops, with the associated fertilizers and chemicals and pesticides.
Or fruit and berries, with the same.
Or eggs, from factory farmed, barn fed, free range, drug fed chickens.
All food is bulked up, be it carbs, or fats, or proteins.
All we can do is decide what we choose to draw our own personal line at.
As to the wheat argument, that is very true.
But then, if you believe all carbs turn to sugar, so no carb is ever good, or was ever good, it makes no difference it the strain has been altered over time.
It would still have had the exact same affect if it was the original strain.
