Bread In Paris
By Lawrence
A friend of mine went to Paris last week to attend a medical conference.
Something interesting happened.
She has issues with wheat gluten and has suffered for a long time from bloating and other issues after eating bread, pizza, etc. here in Canada. She has the same problem with bread, cake and other baked food involving wheat flour in United States.
When she had croissant, pizza and other wheat based food in Paris, no problem at all.
First person account of this unusual difference in our food.
Comments
About a year and a half ago, I discovered the book, “Wheat Belly: Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight, and Find Your Path Back to Health.” I am usually quite skeptical about “fads,”but I was impressed by the argument presented, and saw no downside in judiciously avoiding certain foods.
Merely, removing all grains from my diet, I lost 38 lbs.(down to my high school weight) in about 6 months. “Miraculously,” I was virtually cured of my acid reflux disease.
Since then, I have read extensively on the subject and the conventional food pyramid propaganda foisted on the population by the processed food industry.
Denise Minger has provided devastating critiques of Keys and Campbell whose studies dominate our ideas about diet and disease. She has a new book due out in January, 2014, “Death by Food Pyramid: How Shoddy Science, Sketchy Politics and Shady Special Interests Have Conspired to Ruin the Health of America.”
I don’t eat much wheat based stuff at all. I’ve read the book Wheat Belly too.
Your experience of dropping 38 lbs speaks volume.
Really interesting to me – thanks for the post.
About 6 years ago I developed a wheat intolerance that causes quite a bit of pain. I wonder what the difference is and why does the difference exist. Surely their is a research study about this, why is not mainstream – hmmmmmmmmmmm
With kind regards,
MK
In US the grain industry is “strategically protected for the safety and independence” of the country. Hence you cannot have research telling people it is not a good idea to eat more grains.