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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Finally something comes out against the whole wheat lovers. Many people do not respond well to wheat -- in fact only Northern Europeans really eat it. [/quote]

Huh? So Italians, Greeks, Portuguese etc don't eat bread, pasta, etc?[/quote]

Wheat is also the main staple in the Middle East and North Africa. It was probably first cultivated somewhere in the Fertile Crescent ( Iran or Turkey) and then spread to Europe, India and China. It provides more nourishment worldwide than any other food. About 0.5 %-1 % of the population in the US has an inability to digest wheat protein. Eat ( or don't eat) whatever you want, but the current "wheat-free" diet craze is meaningless, except to the profits of the  makers of gluten-free food. Americans are fat and unhealthy but not because we eat wheat, We simply eat too much. Many people lose weight when they go "Gluten free" because they replace carbs with vegetables and fruits, so it can be a good thing to do this, but not because wheat is necessarily bad for you. It is sort of a fad.[/quote]

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