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If wheat is so bad, what about all the other grains?
First of all, I demonize wheat because of its top-of-the-list role in triggering:
--Appetite--Wheat increases hunger dramatically
--Insulin
--Blood sugar--Wheat is worse than table sugar in triggering a rapid, large rise in blood sugar
--Triglycerides
--Small LDL particles--the number one cause for heart disease in the U.S.
--Reduced HDL
--Diabetes
--Autoimmune diseases--Most notably celiac disease and thyroiditis.
Most other "healthy, whole grains" aren't quite as bad. It's a matter of degree.
Can including wheat in your diet create hell on earth?
Was The Inferno nothing more than Danté's prediction for the state of the U.S. diet circa 2009?
I'm kidding on The Inferno allusion, but the American diet nonetheless sure does create an inferno of unhealthy phenomena.
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Many U.S. teenagers -- including half of African Americans -- would be considered vitamin D-deficient if the definition of deficiency were changed to what many experts recommend, a new study finds.
Right now, people are considered to have an overt deficiency in vitamin D when blood levels drop below 11 nanograms per milliliter (ng/mL), but there is debate over how the optimal vitamin D level should be define
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