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[jimhensen]

Grains are bad for you, right? Like REALLY bad. Probably the worst thing ever. So lets link up all the studies that suggest this.

Unless you want to get ridiculed, don't post youtube videos, blogs, or articles as proof that they are bad. Lets see it, only things you can find on google scholar.

I will start: here is a scientific paper about the health benefits of IP6 AKA phytic acid.

Cancer Inhibition by Inositol Hexaphosphate (IP6) and Inositol: From Laboratory to Clinic

Wait, phytic acid is good for you? Hmmmmm.......

[jimhensen]

Elsevier

I know its epidemiological, but it is better than the non existent studies that say grains are bad for you. It even goes so far to say that refined grains aren't associated with CVD.

[StackingPlates]

Nobody will be able to because those studies don't exist...many of the longest living societies in the world eat grains as a staple food.

[jimhensen]

Whole grains protect against atherosclerotic c... [Proc Nutr Soc. 2003] - PubMed - NCBI

[jimhensen]

Nobody will be able to because those studies don't exist...many of the longest living societies in the world eat grains as a staple food.

But grains are the devil...if you stop eating them you become a super human free of any and all auto immune diseases.

[bloodorchid]

4 more posts and you'll have the coveted 666 post count

[jimhensen]

Whole-grain intake may reduce the risk of ischemic heart disease death in postmenopausal women: the Iowa Women's Health Study.

[StackingPlates]

But grains are the devil...if you stop eating them you become a super human free of any and all auto immune diseases.

About the only thing you acquire from arbitrarily avoiding entire families of edibles is an unhealthy relationship with food.

[jimhensen]

Associations of whole-grain, refined-grain, a... [Am J Clin Nutr. 2003] - PubMed - NCBI

[jimhensen]

About the only thing you acquire from arbitrarily avoiding entire families of edibles is an unhealthy relationship with food.

And you just summed up the problem with paleo/primal in one sentence.