The fibre con

About 10 years ago when we were telling people saturated fat was an essential nutrient, and "low fat diets" were far from healthy, a lot of people freaked out.

Now if we start telling people that high fibre diets are are also very unhealthy, we suspect there may be some reaction.

Of well, nevermind!

You probably have been repeatedly told that fibre prevents colon and breast cancer, lowers cholesterol, reduces the risk of heart disease, regulates blood sugar, wards off diabetes, curbs the appetite, induces weight loss, cleanses the colon, arrests diarrhoea, and unplugs constipation.

Wheat Belly

This book is great - highly recommended - really good summary of how wheat causes obesity, diabetes, and a range of other diseases.

And it also explains why most commercial "gluten free" foods (high starch) are just as bad as the wheat.

Wheat Belly: Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight, and Find Your Path Back to Health by William Davis, MD

http://www.westonaprice.org/thumbs-up-reviews/wheat-belly-by-william-davis


 Things that can happen if you cut out "healthy whole grains"

The Vegetarian Myth

For anyone who has ever been accosted by angry vegetarians, we recommend this book - although it won't be too shocking to anyone familiar with Weston A Price findings, we gather it's quite a challenge for vegetarians and particularly vegans.

While we wouldn't give it a 100% rave review - at times when it gets into topics other than nutrition it goes off the rails (for example the graph on page 251 referring to climate is one of the most meaningless charts ever published!), but it's very entertaining and well written, as well as a scary insider account of what veganism really does to people - well worth reading.