Free The Animal

This post is basically for the purpose of highlighting a couple of others’ posts on grains in case you haven’t seen them.
First, Mark Sisson took on the "Better Fed" and "Feasting on Grains" nonsense I posted on the other day.

Let’s suppose that Mercader’s dating estimates are correct. Let’s also suppose that the tools Mercader tested [...]

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Whether you’re talking ADA, as in, American Diabetes Association or, ADA as in American Dietetic Association, the advice is the same and the effects are the same: not helpful at best, deadly at worst.
This is a sort of follow-on to my recent post on registered dietitians.
One of my readers, Steve Cooksey, offered to share his [...]

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Very quick. Cardiologist William Davis reports on the unexpected benefits his patients achieve after some months completely wheat free.
First, the expected benefits.

A patient would come to the office, for example, with a blood sugar of 118 mg/dl (in the pre-diabetic range) and the other phenomena of pre-diabetes or metabolic syndrome (high blood pressure, high inflammation/c-reactive [...]

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I’m mad as hell, so here goes a shot The Atkins organization (“Nutritionals,” et al) is, I believe, doing a tremendous disservice to the great work done by its pioneer, Dr. Robert Atkins. Frankly: that company sells virtually nothing but processed crap. Bars & shakes loaded with soy, artificial sweeteners, unpronounceable, mystery ingredients, and other Bad Stuff®. And now, it’s All-Purpose Baking Mix and Penne Pasta, both absolutely chock full of gluten. Here’s the press release. The ingredients for one of the bars are what you see to the left. Amazing, eh? So, their only distinction from your run of the mill boxed crap is that it’s lower in carbs? I guess so. Here’s the ingredients for the baking mix: “Wheat Gluten, Whole Grain Soy Flour, Modified Wheat Starch, Unprocessed Wheat Bran. CONTAINS WHEAT AND SOY.” And the penne pasta: “Enriched Semolina (Semolina, Niacin, Iron (Ferrous Sulfate), Thiamin Mononitrate (Vitamin B1), Riboflavin (Vitamin B2, Folic Acid), Modified Wheat Starch, Wheat Gluten, Wheat Protein Isloate. CONTAINS WHEAT.” Soy has no place whatsoever in the human diet (please see here and here). And, neither does wheat, or grains in general. What I’m wondering is how may people with undiagnosed celiac disease (not…

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So there you have it: the punchline, right there in the title. But who did it, and how? That would be none other than Dr. William Davis, cardiologist. So then, what sort of medical procedure did he perform? What sorts of pharmaceuticals did he prescribe? To what level did he admonish his patient, Daniel, to cut the arterycloggingsaturatedfat and to eat lots more servings of hearthealthywholegrians? Of course, anyone who actually reads and thinks for themselves — rather than swallowing the cloistered expert-&-authority-protectionism of conventional “wisdom” — should know, he did none of those things; which, given the other successes he’s blogged about — some of which I’ve highlighted here — exposes most if not all of the “lipid establishment” (i.e., cloistered expert-&-authority-protection racket) as con men: most physicians in that role, all the drug companies, and our beloved (not!) FDA. Got it? Good, so let’s move on. Since most of you who should know, know, what then, dear supplicant to cloistered expert-&-authority-protection rackets, did Dr. Davis do? I’m glad you asked! It’s actually simple: step one is that he “prescribed” 3,600 mg of over-the-counter omega-3 fatty acids per day, i.e., plain ol’ fish oil caps. Depending on concentration, that…

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