What’s with Wheat is a must-see documentary that lays out the multi-faceted problems with conventional wheat these days. In a nutshell, it’s not what your grandma was eating.
No time to watch? Following are some highlights to help you know whether or not you may want to avoid wheat or eliminate it altogether:
Wheat isn’t the problem. It’s what we’ve done to wheat that’s the problem. Today’s wheat is probably the most problematic food in the modern diet.
Over the last six decades, our wheat has changed dramatically. So much so, it doesn’t even resemble what it used to. The wheat that is being developed now was developed for commercial reasons and it’s laced with chemicals. It’s also hybridized, then turned into overly processed fake foods with additives, that the average person eats every day, all day.
A lot of wheat has at least ten applications of chemicals from start to finish. Starting with a spray they put on the seeds to make them sprout. They have hormone sprays to make their stalks strong. Hormone sprays to make them come into seed all at the same time. And then there are fumigants, pesticides (i.e. Roundup/glyphosate), artificial fertilizers and more.
We’ve seen a steady increase in the rate of celiac and the rate of non-celiac gluten sensitivity. If you have a gluten sensitivity, you are more susceptible to learning disabilities, psychiatric problems and other neurologic disorders.
There are no tests for non-celiac gluten sensitivity. The only way to find out if you have it, is to eliminate wheat from your diet and see how your body reacts. (Basic Elimination Diet & Food Allergy Testing Instructions).
We’re also seeing a phenomenal growth in autoimmune diseases. It’s estimated that 17% of Americans suffers from an autoimmune condition. Multiple sclerosis, vitiligo, alopecia, thyroiditis – they always find a connection between autoimmune diseases and gluten.
There’s no part of the body that is immune to the damaging effects of gluten; because there’s no part of the body that is excluded from the mechanism of inflammation. Your joints can become inflamed. Your heart and blood vessels can become inflamed (coronary artery disease).