Mozambican Grass Seed Consumption During the Middle Stone Age
Julio Mercader
Science 18 December 2009:
Vol. 326. no. 5960, pp. 1680 - 1683
DOI: 10.1126/science.1173966
The role of starchy plants in early hominin diets and when the culinary processing of starches began have been difficult to track archaeologically. Seed collecting is conventionally perceived to have been an irrelevant activity among the Pleistocene foragers of southern Africa, on the grounds of both technological difficulty in the processing of grains and the belief that roots, fruits, and nuts, not cereals, were the basis for subsistence for the past 100,000 years and further back in time. A large assemblage of starch granules has been retrieved from the surfaces of Middle Stone Age stone tools from Mozambique, showing that early Homo sapiens relied on grass seeds starting at least 105,000 years ago, including those of sorghum grasses.
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.