> That's all well and good as long as you give the full story, but you've forsaken the anti-grain diet fads while parroting their mantra almost verbatim. Namely

> That's all well and good as long as you give the full story, but you've forsaken the anti-grain diet fads while parroting their mantra almost verbatim. Namely, the idea that grains are a primary food source only because they're an easy source of calories. What about the fact that they're also rich in essential nutrients and have numerous documented health benefits? They aren't rich in essential nutrients. They don't have numerous documented health benefits. And most certainly the reason why we bake bread and eat rice is because of their caloric density and ease of storage of rice and wheat. A diet void of vegetables (and to a much lesser extent, fruit) is horribly unhealthy. You can't say that about grains. Is it really so unreasonable to postulate that the solution to our obesity pandemic is to remove the dense and less-satiating sources of calories and replace them with fibrous fruits and vegetables that contain many more micronutrients?