The Essential Guide Magazine Stockton Heath and Appleton Aug - Sept 2014 | Page 38

I’ve been advising my clients for years
now to either avoid wheat in their diet
completely, or to keep it to a minimum.
It would appear that the consensus of
opinion is heading in that direction now.
According to a few articles that I’ve read
recently, the sale of gluten free and wheat
free foods has doubled over the last year.
Despite the fact that barely 1 out of every
100 of us has a wheat gluten intolerance.
As a species, we weren’t designed to eat
large amounts of grains. We evolved
eating vegetables, fruit and animals that
we hunted. Wheat and other grains were
only introduced a couple of thousand
years ago during the agricultural
revolution. That’s a VERY short period of
time in evolutionary terms.
Cattle are fed on grain in this and other
countries to ‘fatten them up’. If grains
are used to fatten up cattle, then they’re
doing the same to us.
There has been an increased demand in
recent years for grass-fed beef because
of its lower fat content and improved
nutrient content. Leaner, healthier cows
mean leaner, healthier beef.
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