The Deception and Danger of Grain Based Foods
Grain based foods such as cereal, bread and pasta have become a staple of the modern diet. Despite their popularity and the common recommendation to make them the most significant part of your diet, grains are at the root of many serious health issues. Between the number of grain based foods that are highly processed and unhealthy for anyone and the number of people who don’t digest grains well, frequent consumption of these foods can easily lead to life compromising conditions, and if left unaddressed, even premature death.
Many government organizations and so called nutrition experts adamantly state that grain based foods are the foundation of a healthy diet. Unfortunately, this dogmatic perspective is misleading many people and encouraging them to harm their health and live a compromised life.
Why Grain is Such a Large Part of the Modern Diet
Wild grains are very difficult to eat and weren’t a regular part of the human diet until the recent advent of agriculture. Despite the fact that farming required more effort than hunting animals and gathering fruits and vegetables, grains provided several advantages that made the additional effort worth while. Because grains could be stored for long periods of time, they were a more reliable source of food. This allowed humans to settle into more permanent communities and establish better living quarters.
Grains are also known to be addictive and have the ability to mimic the effects of an opioid drug. As such, they provided a false sense of comfort and well being that encouraged many of the early proponents of agriculture to continue eating and farming them.
Today, grain based foods continue to provide similar advantages. They can easily and inexpensively be produced in mass quantities, they have a long shelf life, and their addictive nature continues to lure people into buying them. Based on these factors, grain based foods are a money making dream come true for large food manufacturers.
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