Mercola agrees that cereal grains are the problem

Mercola who is held in high esteem by many on this board, agrees that cereal grains are the cause of many of our illnesses and problems.  Mercola has written The No-Grain Diet and I have a friend who is following it and within the first week lost 10 pounds without trying (she is not overweight) and some of her allergies cleared up.  I don't agree with Mercola on a lot of things, but on this one I'm in complete agreement.

From one of Mercola's sites: http://www.mercola.com/article/carbohydrates/scientific_evidence_low_grains.htm

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Generally, in most parts of the world, whenever cereal-based diets were first adopted as a staple food replacing the primarily animal-based diets of hunter-gatherers, there was a characteristic reduction in stature, a reduction in life span, an increase in infant mortality, an increased incidence of infectious disease, an increase in diseases of nutritional deficiencies (i.e., iron deficiency, pellagra), and an increase in the number of dental caries and enamel defects.

In a review of 51 references examining human populations from around the earth and from differing chronologies, as they transitioned from hunter-gathers to farmers, one investigator concluded that there was an overall decline in both the quality and quantity of life.

There is now substantial empirical and clinical evidence to indicate that many of these deleterious changes are directly related to the predominately cereal-based diets of these early farmers. Since 99.99% of our genes were formed before the development of agriculture, from a biological perspective, we are still hunter-gathers.

Thus, our diet should reflect the sensibilities of this nutritional niche: lean meats; fish; seafood; low glycemic vegetables and fruit, (modern agriculture has significantly increased the sugar and starch content of vegetables and fruits over their Paleolithic counterparts), nuts and seeds - the evolutionary diet.

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