PatriciaGausnell

This is an issue I have struggled with for years. In 1970 I read Adelle Davis's books on nutrition, and tried to change my family's diet to improve our health. I still very much believe in them, and feel we have been much healthier because of it. I almost completely quit using white flour and other refined grain products. I have a wheat grinder in the kitchen, and turned it on when I was ready to make something using flour. My children knew when they heard it go on in the morning that the pancakes would be ready in 10 minutes. They were raised on cracked wheat cereal, corn meal mush, brown rice cereal, etc. All pretty healthy kids, hardly ever a need for antibiotics, no serious illnesses, etc. In the past few years, we have been hearing all this stuff about celiac disease, gluten sensitivity, etc. I read "The Wheat Belly Book," whose author doesn't want us to eat any kind of wheat or gluten containing grain. After much study, prayer, and thought, I still don't know if I should be eating wheat or not. But I do know one thing. We should not be eating white flour or refined grain products. Ever. So much of the food value has been removed that it doesn't resemble the real stuff. And maybe, as Adelle Davis, says, the nutrients we are removing are the very ones that will keep us from developing allergies. I wish I could tell you her list of percentages of each nutrient that has been removed (I don't have access to the book now, as I am on a mission in Australia). All the vitamins, minerals, protein, fiber, etc. We need all those things to be healthy.