I realize I often write a lot when I participate in a thread, but I strive to separate fact from belief from fiction.
Gyrobob wrote on 04/19/12 at 06:37:14:It is kind of frustrating to discuss things with you when you make fanciful accusations/claims about holy roman emporers and medieval walmarts.
It is not a fanciful accusation, it is a testimony from the past, it is my culture.
Quote:All I mentioned in that last post was that over the past few months, several folks have chimed in with comments about hair growing back and/or getting thicker as one of the many benefits they are experiencing once they stop abusing wheat.
Here's one from 11 hours ago, "6 weeks in, my husband is growing hair on his "bald spot". Me? Menopause reversal, have to shave again...aahhh youth!"
No claims, no studies,... none of that. I'm just relating something posted there. Maybe you would tell them it just didn't happen,.. that they just imagined the bald spot filling in.
Your paradigm problem about wheat seems to pretty much filter out any info that doesn't match your paradigm. This is quite understandable. Most folks have trouble comprehending what they are not used to comprehending.
This claim describes your attitude perfectly
It is just as frustrating to carry on a fair, rational discussion when the counterpart replies with the argumentatyions of a taliban...
...meaning of a person who's read ONE book and is now convinced anything which is against that book is the work of the devil!
May I humbly point out that hair loss may be triggered by two factors:
- stress in the family or in the workplace,
- endocrinal factors (hormones)
In hair loss ceases or hair may even regrow, if the cause for stress is removed and emotional health is recuperated;
OR
hair may regrow where there was a bald(ing) patch due to desease of the skin, an allergy (perhaps related to something which had nothing to do with wheat, but came with the wheat, such as chemicals in the plastic wrapper)
or physical damage which is healing.
I had a skin transplant due to cancer at the age of 26, they sliced a portion of skin from my thigh and transplanted it on my neck, under the left ear.
My beard grew there, the skin on my thigh was hairy, but once the transplant was successful and the skin took root on my neck, the hair never grew back.
Menopausal reversal ?
Has the lady told her family Doctor ? What were his comments ?
As for all the "improved health" symptoms, may I simply observe:
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many improvements are not due to "not eating wheat" but to "not eating the dressings"; many sauces mimick the Italian recipe only by name, but have far more fats than expected, or some ingredients are completely different and allergies may unexpectedly result; cheaper to mass produce but definitely a long way from being "healthy".
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many improvements are not due to "not eating wheat" but to "eating less", simply because eliminating the slices of bread or the pasta will result in less volume fed to the stomach (i.e., 2 hot dogs without the bun will result in an overall small portion to be digested, as opposed to the spongy mass which bloats the stomach if you do have the bun)
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many improvements are not due to "not eating wheat" but to improving the overall quality of the food eaten; if I cannot have my "chicken pesto fettuccine" (culinary blasphemy, but I'll skip the details) I will add vegetables to the chicken simply to make up for the missing pasta... hety, I'm hungry and DEMAND food on my table!
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many improvements are not due to "not eating wheat" but to finding "old" or "traditional" alternatives; no more corn chips for my snack but a healthy apple... corn chips are garbage in the first place, any fried and salted carbohydrate is culinary garbage.
Overall, I read many tall tales in the WB FB page (what do you think, I have never accessed the blog? I even contributed to it) but much of the advice asked or the "testimonials" are either clue to nutritional ignorance of the blogger (such as "fat free oil"
) or dismissible claims, or explainable as I have just above.
I am not slamming Dr.Davis, nor have I insulted you.
I still have to understand where Dr.Davis draws scientific evidence for his assumed discovery of the obnoxious "wheat brain fog", I am sure that any scientist at MIT in Boston would take offense.
I certainly have.
I am ready to bet one whole dollar that while in college and at School of Medicine Dr.Davis stuffed his face with french fries, hot dogs and hamburgers - i.e., carbohydrates as you find in the buns etc.
Yet he (assumedly) got through School of Medicine successfully, got his degree and became a cardiologist.
THEN, his mind fogged by wheat, he "saw the light" and went on his anti-wheat campaing.
Am I being sarcastic ? By the looks of it, yes.
I'd rather say the more I think about it and ask around, the stronger my skepticism becomes.
If Dr.Davis belonged to a culture or an ethnic group in whose diet wheat is altogether absent, and he went on this campaing, then I'd understand.
He's supporting his culture and looking for whatever scientific evidence is avaliable to support it.
I do exactly the same when I insist on the virtues of olive oil v.s generic vegetable oil.
But I don't go on a rampage telling people who fry their cod in lard they are [please insert polite insult here] and that if they switch to olive oil their life will improve and they will grow wings and fly to work every day.
I have read a lot on the so called "paleo diet" fad, which is just that, a fad.
To assume that the diet of Man in the Paleolithic was better quality than it is today means:
- we deny the improvements due to modernisation, from hygiene to cooking and refrigeration, to medicine,
- we deny the scientific evidence that Paleo Man was generally malnourished, fed on a seasonal diet on whatever was available on hand IF he/she was ALLOWED to feet of that food (i.e., hunters/warriors first, then the women, then the elderly).
How would you feel, Gyrobob, if the allowed calory intake was defined by age and job ?
Serving military ? 5000 calories / day
School teacher ? 3000 calories / day
Retired ? 1000 calories / day, you can't contribute much to society so why ask for more ?
THAT was Paleo Man. Diggings and findings support that.
Ride well, and enjoy your "Daly Bread" (now... where have I heard that before ...?)