Odds stacked against you

[unixronin]

Last night, someone I know pointed me at a July 2007 blog article by a Dr. William Davis, talking about why excessive consumption of processed wheat products is bad for your health.  That includes breads, cakes (see, you always knew Ho-Hos were evil!), pasta, and even those breakfast cereals with the boxes plastered with logos telling you how heart-healthy they are.¹

It’s an interesting blog overall. The title of this post comes from part of Dr. Davis’ capsule “about” text:  “You’ve been playing the health game by someone else’s rules with the odds stacked against you.”

Davis stresses that he’s not dispensing medical advice, just sharing information and discussing health issues frankly as he sees them.  But it seems to me there’s a lot of good information here.

I’ve just syndicated his Atom feed here on LJ as heartscanblog.  If you want to become a little more of an informed player in the health game, you might want to pick the feed up.

[1]  Oh, wait, wait, most of them don’t actually come right out and say that they’re heart-healthy ... they usually wrap the insinuation in weasel-words like “Supa Wonda Brekky Bikkies can be part of a heart-healthy diet” and let you draw the conclusion they want you to, without ever actually making explicit claims.  Well, cellulose packing peanuts can be “part of” almost any diet you care to name, too, but I still don’t recommend eating them.

Comments

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

I believe you'll find he does make the distinction. The harm, he says, lies in an excess of highly-processed wheat products. But it's probably simpler to advise people "Eliminate wheat from your diet as much as you can" rather than "Eliminate highly-processed wheat products from your diet". The majority of people don't know how to tell them apart, and the ingredients list on the package is seldom of any help in this regard.

[perspicuity.livejournal.com]

i know many people who almost exclusively live on processed wheat and soy. it's kind of scary. they don't get many vegetables, and some no meat at all.

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