Recipes containing wheat is actually bad for you

Wow, you guys are making great arguments. I am really enjoying the intelligent responses.

I'm going to be straight with you. You are falling so far into the stereotypical, "Post controversial, highly unsupported 'research' with a grammatically incorrect title; respond to all thoughts disagreeing with extreme passive-aggression" right off the bat that I can't tell if you're just an observer posting a joke or actually falling into that stereotype.

LOL!!!!! Agreed!!!!

Doctors who have a hypothesis about something like this do scientific research and publish their results in peer-reviewed journals. They do not write fear-mongering books about their ideas in order to make more money.

http://europepmc.org/abstract/MED/12566142

http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=807124

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0939475307000026

http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=807108

http://rd.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11883-004-0081-y

Oh, and there are so many more of those. This is coming from someone who has a gluten intolerance and does not consume wheat.

I agree with you.

Person who has full blown celiac disease (treated by a gluten free diet)

If I could eat wheat, I would. 2/3s of the population has no problem with wheat and will never have a problem with it, they don't have the HLA type to get celiac disease. As a side note, I was much thinner when I ate wheat.

+1. My mom has celiac, and she was always much thinner when she ate wheat (yay for intestines and villi attacking themselves and not being able to absorb nutrients). This whole "wheat makes you fat" argument is kind of funny coming from her perspective.... lol.

Gluten free foods are actually higher in calories.

Yup. I've mentioned that before here. A lot of celiac patients gain weight, and this is one of the reasons aside the fact that when the gut heals, foods are digested much better. In a person with a normal gut, the higher calories are going to have the same effect.

How about people stop blaming restaurants, ingredients, manufacturers, farmers, their mom, their neighbor, their spouse or their dog for making them fat. It's time everyone accepts the fact that they ate too much damn food and gained a crap ton of weight from it.

All this does is push blame away from the individual. People will see this and start to believe it wasn't the 5000 calories per day that made them fat. It was the wheat roll they had with their 2000 calorie dinner.
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Spot on!

I used to poo poo the idea of wheat sensitivity as just some dietary hypochondriac hysteria. Other than the few honest to goodness full-blown celiacs who must avoid gluten for documented medical reasons, I thought the rest of the wheat avoiding crowd was nuts. It wasn't until I learned by accident that I was wheat intolerant that I bought into any of it. Going wheat-free was the best thing I ever did for my health! Is wheat unhealthy for everyone? Probably not. But it was tearing my body to shreds.. my joints were so aching that I couldn't even close my hands into a fist and I could barely walk after my shift at work. Within the first month of giving up wheat (and other cereal grains for now) I had no joint pain and I felt fabulous.

Yes, we all know that celiacs need to go gluten free.. but there are many non-celiacs out there who are sensitive to wheat to varying degrees. If you suspect that you may be wheat sensitive, then try giving it up for a month and see what happens. If you don't think you're sensitive to wheat then go on and enjoy your bread... and have a slice of fresh baked whole wheat bread slathered with apple butter for me because GOD, I sure do miss it!

BTW, I do have better appetite control than I did before I gave up the wheat. I used to eat about 95% from whole grains and it still was a very strong appetite stimulant for me and I could EASILY eat 1000 calories from just fresh baked whole wheat bread alone (not even with butter on it) in a single sitting because something about it just made me want more and more and more.. other foods that I like like steak, or lobster, or pears don't have this effect on me but OMG bread, glorious bread, I just couldn't get enough! I guess even though it's a pain in the petutties, It really is a blessing in disguise that I learned of my wheat sensitivity, because does keep me away from a lot of the high calorie foods that I love.

Wow, you guys are making great arguments. I am really enjoying the intelligent responses.

I'm going to be straight with you. You are falling so far into the stereotypical, "Post controversial, highly unsupported 'research' with a grammatically incorrect title; respond to all thoughts disagreeing with extreme passive-aggression" right off the bat that I can't tell if you're just an observer posting a joke or actually falling into that stereotype.

This is the second time today you've made me swoon....

Truth. Why have I not FR'd sip?

How about people stop blaming restaurants, ingredients, manufacturers, farmers, their mom, their neighbor, their spouse or their dog for making them fat? It's time everyone accepts the fact that they ate too much damn food and gained a crap ton of weight from it.

All this does is push blame away from the individual. People will see this and start to believe it wasn't the 5000 calories per day that made them fat. It was the wheat roll they had with their 2000 calorie dinner.

*claps*

Quote: Recipes containing wheat is actually bad for you.
Correction: Recipes containing wheat ARE actually bad for you.

Now that your grammar is fixed, that article proves nothing. I will remain agnostic towards wheat for now. Thank you.

Ha ha ha...Beer!