Why wheat is bad for us?

Wheat is such a commonly accepted part of our diet that it is hard to believe that it is the cause of so many of our health problems. But when we look at the way our diet has changed even over the last hundred years and the effect that has had on obesity and diet related diseases it is obvious that something is seriously wrong. Worldwide there are approximately more than one billion people who are either overweight or obese. And in the United States this figure is some 64% of the population.

When we compare ourselves to Palaeolithic man who had very low body fat and with none of the many health problems such as heart disease or cancer that we now suffer from we may ask where we started to go wrong.

The answer lies with the rise of the agricultural revolution which began 10,000 years ago and has been magnified in the last one hundred years with the virtual removal of fresh vegetables and fruits from many people’s diets. The fact is that we are not designed to eat wheat. Man has been living on the earth for over half a million years but he has only been eating wheat grains as a predominant part of his diet for just under 10,000. Evolution does not work this quickly and our bodies have not had time to adapt. Unlike cows which have four stomachs were as we only have two. So while a cow maybe to handle wheat ok we are not able to do so.