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To: E. Charters who wrote (12928)10/30/2015 9:25:18 AM
From: Pogeu Mahone  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 17056
 
EC
You are looking in the wrong direction:
"It is relatively easy to come up with pro meat anything goes, lets return to our bad diet. But something is causing our epidemic heart disease and cancer rates."

Wheat, Corn, Sugar are causing our epidemic of heart disease and cancer.

Three Hidden Ways Wheat Makes You Fat

Posted: 02/18/2012 7:53 am EST Updated: 04/19/2012 5:12 am EDT

Gluten-free is hot these days. There are books and websites, restaurants with gluten free menus, and grocery stores with hundreds of new gluten-free food products on the shelf. Is this a fad, or a reflection of response to a real problem?

Yes, gluten is a real problem. But the problem is not just gluten. In fact, there arethree major hidden reasons that wheat products, not just gluten (along with sugar in all its forms) is a major contributor to obesity, diabetes, heart disease, cancer, dementia, depression and so many other modern ills.

This is why there are now 30 percent more obese than undernourished in the world, and why chronic lifestyle and dietary driven disease kills more than twice as many people as infectious disease globally. These non-communicable, chronic diseases will cost our global economy $47 trillion over the next 20 years.

Sadly, this tsunami of chronic illness is increasingly caused by eating our beloved diet staple, bread, the staff of life, and all the wheat products hidden in everything from soups to vodka to lipstick to envelope adhesive.

The biggest problem is wheat, the major source of gluten in our diet. B