Are cereals bad for you?

Are cereals bad for you?

cereals are badI keep looking for articles  that talk about grains as an absolute evil , usually because they are on a Paleo diet (meat raised without flour, if you know where to find it, and game, fish, nuts, fruit and vegetables, seeds) or a Paleo diet and raw food together .

Thanks to great experts such as Taubes, a journalist who apart from meat and green leafy vegetables demonizes legumes, cereals, tubers, vegetables and fruit, but eats a lot of cheeses  (yet, he is often cited by supporters of the Paleolithic diet), people they are prey to an unjustified alarmism against many sources of complex carbohydrates, judged to be harmful and dangerous to health, and not suitable for real human nutrition. But what does real human nutrition mean?
Without making controversy about some considerations taken from research and cut with the hatchet just to be able to fit them well into their arguments, the writer that cereals are bad in general takes two cases in support of this thesis

– the case of the primitives of the Paleolithic, who with an average life of thirty years did not have serious degenerative diseases: perhaps, given that one can see the signs of these diseases in the bone remains after forty thousand years, it will also be because at twenty , thirty years these diseases do not manifest themselves in such a striking way as after fifty?
– the case of some tribes in different corners of the planet, as in the studies of Lindeberg and Weston Price. Too bad that Weston Price cites in his studies the consumption of cereals such as corn, oats, millet and legumes (often beans) in many of the tribes analyzed (you can find the complete pdf of his study on the internet), so much so that the diet put forward by Weston Price Foundation also provides for the consumption of cereals and legumes, as long as they are treated (i.e. soaked, sprouted and fermented where possible, cooked); Lindeberg argues instead that the populations surveyed had a low consumption of cereals, not any consumption of cereals (the Kitava Study).

The conclusion is that rather than abolishing cereals and legumes, refined cereals and sugars should be abolished. Reading today’s diet of those who recommend abolishing cereals (including whole grains) and legumes, as well as dairy products and sugars, we see that it is advisable to eat a lot of meat instead, little fruit, little vegetables,lots of fish, especially salmon. This is based on the fact that the average user can easily have meat from livestock raised on forage and locally caught. I have already written to you how salmon is raised, for example, but even intensive farming does not provide quality meat, and at this point people would have to stop eating altogether, or become breeders themselves in order to eat like a man. time, but what do I say breeders, hunters! In addition, there are many cereals, there are many varieties of legumes, and all cereals can be consumed in the whole form, avoiding the refined variants. So why generalize?
It is not an invitation to eat four-jawed cereal products, but not to dwell only on the side of the coin that seems to shine the most. Documenting ourselves, in the most heterogeneous way possible, can also allow us to have a diet free from fashions, from the bestseller of the week, and from the forums in which we discuss and advise without citing reliable studies. 

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