Nutrition
Dough Makes Dough
Wheat amplifies the fattening effects of an unhealthy diet in multiple ways. Research shows that gluten-containing foods impair metabolism and gut health—with profound consequences for our wellbeing.
Nutrition
Wheat amplifies the fattening effects of an unhealthy diet in multiple ways. Research shows that gluten-containing foods impair metabolism and gut health—with profound consequences for our wellbeing.
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Unfortunately, one must repeatedly remind oneself that wheat produces an "odd, spongy fattiness." This is what one reads in Weston Price, and later in Albert von Haller ("Endangered Humanity"):
When the Eskimos ate one-sided bread, sugar, and grain foods, an odd, spongy fattiness developed that was unknown among people living in their traditional environment. Through their native diet they remained slim and light.
And what was this "native diet" of the Eskimos? Exactly: "meat, fish, and seaweed." In our reality here in Switzerland, as in many other parts of the world, the situation is different:
Dough makes dough.
You can observe this in yourself again and again. We need not elaborate on the fact that most of us are not adapted to this "dough diet." The so-called civilization diseases—heart and circulatory disorders, neurodegeneration; everything that people living in the wild do not know—make this more than clear. This becomes particularly apparent in the example of Aboriginal Australians. They come out of the bush into the city, eat a pretzel... and develop diabetes. Yes, exaggerated, but fundamentally true, unfortunately. That is, the more archaic one's genome, the more sensitive one reacts to modern food—this likely affects at least 30–70% of people here.
Yet wheat operates in a completely different dimension. Wheat has a different quality compared to rice or perhaps corn. Why this is the case is something the experts will dispute for decades to come. Wheat seems to be particularly incompatible in a certain sense. Even rodents naturally adapted to it show strange anomalies when fed wheat.
Mind you: we are talking about only a single factor in the animals' diet. The total amount of calories the animals consumed was the same.
Dough makes dough.
In real life, unfortunately, few people consistently avoid their gluten pizza, their croissants, or bread (whether they can or want to). In doing so, they frequently forfeit what is possibly the most important lever for becoming and staying healthy. Many people still fail to understand that food has an enormous influence on EVERYTHING in life. Many people still do not understand that the probability is not insignificant that they do not digest wheat well and react to it immunologically—for instance, with antibodies.
One can only repeat: these antibodies against gliadin cross-react with all body proteins and thereby impair their function. Even in the brain: "Gliadin is a highly immunogenic protein, and the epitopes spanning its entire immunogenic length are homologous to products of numerous proteins relevant to schizophrenia. These include members of the DISC1 interactome, and glutamate, dopamine, and neuregulin signaling networks, as well as pathways involved in plasticity, dendritic growth, or myelination. Antibodies to gliadin will likely cross-react with these key proteins." Period.
If people understood that gliadin and gluten are not everyday fun in the form of cookies, donuts, and jam rolls, but rather serious and disease-causing factors in food, perhaps at some point a rethink would occur. Unfortunately, one can predict that people today are so far off track and living past their lives that the spiral only keeps turning, and we—naturally by government decree—will eat as we did in the post-war era. Then it might be said, "A loaf of bread a day, keeps health away."
In any case, we are experiencing a grave agenda and a grave educational intervention by many of our politicians and media. Today, meat is made out to be the culprit for everything—costs, climate, health, and more. Populism these days spreads unfortunately very effectively. With fatal consequences.
