Originally Posted by Whofan
Absolutely do not want to squabble, but I would like to explain that my, personal, dismissal of healthywholegrains and starches is because I had eaten them every day of my life for decades (and in even larger quantities for the 10 years when I was a vegan). I used to love unripe bananas, potatoes, brown rice, and just about every other form of grain or starch available. They had no health benefits for me. It was not until I stopped eating them completely that I realized they had caused: asthma, annulare granuloma (a skin rash I had for 26 years), joint pain, triglycerides at 380, gum disease, brittle hair and fingernails, and intense, uncontrollable, aching, cravings for more and more and more of them. I know this was all caused by grains and starch because, within weeks of eliminating them from my diet, every single one of those symptoms disappeared - including the 26 year skin rash that no doctor could cure - and two years later have never returned.
When I convinced my boyfriend to stop eating healthywholegrains, in 3 days he lost a debilitating pain in his foot that had plagued him for a few years and within 2 weeks reversed a rapidly rising PSA count (a marker for prostate cancer) that was about to send him for a second painful biopsy.
So, perhaps, "instant" dismissal is not really an accurate characterization of my feelings toward articles like the one in question. I've had decades of health problems to help me decide whether to believe in the healing powers of grains or not. From my experience the only conclusion I can come to is that I emphatically do not. And, I do care about other people, so it worries me to think that they too may be suffering needlessly because they are constantly encouraged to eat these substances.
After all that, for me, the effortless weight loss when I kicked those things to the curb is merely a wonderful, amazing, side effect.
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