Sunday, September 9, 2012

Wheat Belly


In her quest for health, LuAnn came across the book Wheat Belly by a Dr. Davis in Wisconsin. He keeps talking about hybrid wheat changing wheat into this obesity causing grain. Does he mean strains? Hybrid wheat failed because wheat is a perfectly self pollinating plant. The average wheat variety takes 13 years from cross to enough to plant in farmers fields.

Help me decipher this mans book. I know there is truth in it but I am only aware of celiac disease allergy to wheat and America's lack of a balanced diet. I am not aware of wheat the cause of bellies in the U.S.

"Wheat: The Unhealthy Whole Grain
Book Excerpt: Wheat Belly
By William Davis, MD

Flip through your parents’ or grandparents’ family albums and you’re likely to be struck by how thin everyone looks. The women probably wore size-four dresses and the men sported 32-inch waists. Overweight was something measured only by a few pounds; obesity rare. Overweight children? Almost never. Any 42-inch waists? Not here. Two-hundred-pound teenagers? Certainly not.

The women of that world didn’t exercise much at all. How many times did you see your mom put on her jogging shoes to go out for a three-mile run? Nowadays I go outdoors on any nice day and see dozens of women jogging, riding their bicycles, power walking—things we’d virtually never see 40 or 50 years ago. And yet, we’re getting fatter and fatter every year.

I am going to argue that the problem with the diet and health of most Americans is wheat—or what we are being sold that is called “wheat.”

Documented peculiar effects of wheat on humans include appetite stimulation, exposure to brain-active exorphins (the counterpart of internally derived endorphins), exaggerated blood sugar surges that trigger cycles of satiety alternating with heightened appetite, the process of glycation that underlies disease and aging, inflammatory and pH effects that erode cartilage and damage bone, and activation of disordered immune responses. A complex range of diseases results from consumption of wheat, from celiac disease—the devastating intestinal disease that develops from exposure to wheat gluten—to an assortment of neurological disorders, diabetes, heart disease, arthritis, curious rashes, and the paralyzing delusions of schizophrenia.

The sad truth is that the proliferation of wheat products in the American diet parallels the expansion of our waists. Advice to cut fat and cholesterol intake and replace the calories with whole grains that was issued by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute through its National Cholesterol Education Program in 1985 coincides precisely with the start of a sharp upward climb in body weight for men and women. Ironically, 1985 also marks the year when the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) began tracking body weight statistics, documenting the explosion in obesity and diabetes that began that very year.

So why has this seemingly benign plant that sustained generations of humans suddenly turned on us? For one thing, it is not the same grain our forebears ground into their daily bread. Wheat has changed dramatically in the past fifty years under the influence of agricultural scientists. Wheat strains have been hybridized, crossbred, and introgressed to make the wheat plant resistant to environmental conditions, such as drought, or pathogens, such as fungi. But most of all, genetic changes have been induced to increase yield per acre. Such enormous strides in yield have required drastic changes in genetic code. Such fundamental genetic changes have come at a price.

Wheat starches are the complex carbohydrates that are the darlings of dietitians. “Complex” means that the carbohydrates in wheat are composed of polymers (repeating chains) of the simple sugar, glucose. Conventional wisdom, such as that from your dietitian or the USDA, says we should all reduce our consumption of simple carbohydrates in the form of candy and soft drinks, and increase our consumption of complex carbohydrates.

Of the complex carbohydrate in wheat, 75 percent is the chain of branching glucose units, amylopectin, and 25 percent is the linear chain of glucose units, amylose. In the human gastrointestinal tract, both amylopectin and amylose are digested by the salivary and stomach enzyme amylase. Amylopectin is efficiently digested by amylase to glucose, while amylose is much less efficiently digested, some of it making its way to the colon undigested. Thus, the complex carbohydrate amylopectin is rapidly converted to glucose and absorbed into the bloodstream and, because it is most efficiently digested, is mainly responsible for wheat’s blood-sugar-increasing effect."

Here is a good review of the book and what Western Producer said about the book, thanks to our reader from Canada, Ralph Goff.

He said something like whole wheat bread has more glucose than table sugar. In my studies, I have not seen the changes in genetic code the last 50 years he speaks of. I am familiar with Dr. Norman Borlaug and dwarf wheat and the doubling of yield in my lifetime but not with dramatic gene changes.

"1000's of new strains have made it into the human food supply." The Malabar soft red winter wheat I raise is similar to the Cardinal wheat I raised 30 years ago.

I don't get it.

Help.

Thanks,

Ed Winkle


18 comments:

  1. And I thought obesity was caused by mobile phones used by sedentary people...

    A complex issue such as obesity can hardly be attributed to a single culprit, poor wheat. And going from moderation (eating some wheat) to one extreme (eating no wheat products at all) is just that, an extreme, and always suspicious. In his book, Davis mentions processed (i.e. junk) food and high fructose corn syrup among others, so I'm not sure why the book's title is just about wheat.

    In any case, people eat much less bread today than a century ago, so the whole argument about wheat just does not hold. In France, consumption went from well 900g a day (it was almost the whole meal) to a stable 170g a day for the past few years, and funnily enough, it's only now that obesity is starting to show up...

    Wheat did evolve tremendously over the past 50 years, but so have carrots and cows, where's the book about them? It seems the guy bases his whole argument on wheat because he himself has an abnormal wheat sensitivity: He was near vomiting for 36 hours after eating 100g of whole wheat bread. Hardly a scientific proof for a so-called doctor.
    The dwarf genes have indeed been introduced to wheat and other grains such as rice, but it seems to be well studied for many years, and I never read about it affecting the taste of wheat or the structure of gluten. It is possible though, or at least a risk, and indeed, all that the guy talks about is "the potential differences" between the old and new wheats (I read the word "potential" 3 times in 3 pages), no hard facts. The seed companies and the regulation agencies certainly don't care a dime about things such as taste or the different forms of gluten.

    Davis' personal trials were not even comparisons with the old varieties (which are still available) but with emmer and einkorn, not really proving a point.

    Anyway, how can you trust someone who spells "croissant" as "crescent" in his book? ^-^

    I bought Richard Heinberg's "The Party's Over" and Will Allen's "The War on Bugs" for 1 penny each this week-end. Well, $4 with shipping. They should make fine reading next week.

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  2. I have not read the book but seen various reviews and excerpts. I am a little skeptical of the whole idea. There was a good article in the western producer magazine a while back offering a contrary view. Wish I could find it.

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  3. Thanks, Chimel, Thanks, Ralph. I find your points suspiscious, too.

    Maybe we are producing too many high yielding, empty calorie foods, not the nutrient dense foods we need to consume in moderation with exercise.

    I don't see how picking on wheat the way he did explains much, although I have met people who have taken wheat or potatoes out of their own diets with amazingly good results. Several said all signs of arthritis disappeared!

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  4. Ralph, I was able to find the article and link it in my blog, thanks to you.

    I also added the wheat belly cover for a picture. I am not trying to sell or advertize his book.

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