In The War on Wheat, this enlightened physician fights back

A University of Toronto physician speaks out about the Fifth Estate production that purports to have debunked the Wheat Belly arguments: To the producers of the above named show. I did not find that you presented the issue fairly to the public. The show was basically about which guru people should follow—Dr. Davis and a host of glamorous hucksters or the skeptical debunkers. A debunking of a popular movement always feeds into people’s cynical nature and makes good, entertaining TV and a smug audience. Unfortunately, the truth took a big hit. So did an opportunity to educate Canadians to some important issues Dr. Davis raises in his book. I read the book some time ago but here are some points I think it would have been worthwhile to have discussed: Bread is basically “empty” calories with no nutritional value beyond the calories, so in the presence of other sources of calories, it is not an essential food and fair game for risk analysis. This is a simple point and should have been the take-off point of the show: given it provides no value, what evidence is there for harm? And then proceed to look at the risk of harm. But the discourse in the show did not address a single such point. The large number of calories consumed from baked goods make a huge contribution the epidemic of obesity and its complications such as diabetes, hypertension, cardiovascular de-conditioning, obstructive sleep apnea, acceleration of atherosclerosis, increased risk for surgery, childbirth, an...
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