> This felicitous hypothesis says that grains are the environmental > factor specific to agrarian societies that is responsible for diseases > of affluence. > http://www.pubmedcentral.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pubmed&pubmedid=16336696 The above hyperlink writes about the hunter-gather myth. Hunter-gather societies simply cannot support the current world populations levels. Give up growing grains and people would be starving to death on a mass scale.
> The easiest way to disprove this hypothesis is to point out the > obvious. [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > of affluence would have logically existed some 10,000 years ago when > man first started eating grains rather than today. Furthermore, throughout these past 10,000 years many agrarian societies existed almost exclusively on grains. Hence, these people would also have logically experienced the most acute levels of these diseases of affluence.
> Further, this very same academic paper contradicts this conclusion by > saying that "CHD was reportedly rare in developed populations until the [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > grains rather than whole-grains. Of course, there are other > possibilities too, such as global warming and modern stress. Something else major happened. Refrigeration was invented and our food distribution system improved tremendously. Modern industrialized civilizations have had in the past 100 years more variety in their agrarian diets than ever before. In reality more people are eating more meat today than in the past 10,000 years.
> Furthermore, this paper presents only an untested and unproven > hypothesis. I have easily this hypothesis to be wrong. [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > human diet. So, the notion that 10,000 years is not long enough for > humans to adapt to grains is total nonsense. Ergo, Grains in the Agrarian diet as the causative factor for diseases of affluence hypothesis is total bunk. This theory is actually arguing that diseases of affluence should be at their lowest levels in the last 10,000 years of history. Thus, who are promoting it have mush for brains and are promoting a fairy tale.
> Who says so? I do. > http://naturalhealthperspective.com/food/whole-grains.html [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > sharper terminology than ever before. > http://naturalhealthperspective.com/food/ |