The War on Wheat

The War on Wheat

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The War On Wheat profiles Dr. William Davis, author of the influential best-selling book Wheat Belly, a work that is largely considered the bible of those on a wheat-free diet. A charismatic man who believes genetically modified wheat is a universal health threat, this film presents his claims while questioning the lack of scientific evidence behind them.

While more doctors have been advising patients with diagnosed food sensitivities to steer away from wheat and gluten, Davis equates all North American wheat with "garbage", declaring it an addictive opiate that poses a risk to all who consume it. Consumers have not taken his claims lightly - since the beginning of the wheat-free craze companies including major cereal manufacturers and commercial bakeries have felt a significant negative impact on sales, with some businesses having to close entirely.

CBC's Mark Kelley interviews Canadian dietary scientists and researchers, such as McGill University's Joe Schwartz, to present counter-arguments to Davis' claims. Schwartz is just one of the many subjects that argues there is no hard science to back his crusade against wheat. He claims the evidence Davis cites in his book is "cherry-picked" data that has been manipulated into seeming more compelling than it should be. Similarly, diet expert Yoni Freedhoff likens Davis to an evangelical preacher, a showman who is full of promise but no substance. Perhaps most damning is the fact that not a single registered health organization - not even the Canadian Celiac Association - support the elimination of wheat for anyone not diagnosed with Celiac Disease.

Why, then, is the anti-wheat craze so popular? Health policy professor and author of Is Gwyneth Paltrow Wrong About Everything? Timothy Caulfield correlates the impact of celebrity endorsement on fad diets with the popularity of wheat-free eating, and indeed Davis has received much attention from major talk shows and Hollywood figureheads.

A provocative look at the dizzying and confusing area of food and dietary science, The War on Wheat reveals the minimal influence science has had in dissuading the general public from believing genetically modified crops present a serious health threat and leaves viewers wondering who to believe when it comes to beliefs about food consumption.

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Helena Maria Fernandes Pereira Amador da Costa Tomé
Helena Maria Fernandes Pereira Amador da Costa Tomé
2 years ago

We, Portuguese, eat wheat bread a lot. However, I was always tought that when we eat too much of any food, we gain certain features and that it is true to all kinds of foods. So, people who eat too much bread has certain fluffy features, very much alike to the physical features people who eats too much vegetable soup or too much potatoes. Different features are seen in people who drinks too much wine; too much beee; and so on. That's why we should not eat too much of any food, not only bread, or soup, or beer.
Anything said about wheat is fake. Grains have a scale of acceptance by the body: wheat is the best, then corn, oat and finally barley. Corn, though it's the second best cereal to humans, it cannot be eat in large quantities because it stops the absortion of certain minerals we need.
My children and I always followed these rules. We have been healthy and I got a little fat because of medication.

Storm martin
Storm martin
3 years ago

It is actually the post-processing of the wheat into flour of any kind that is the problem. This is done so it can have a long shelf life and make money for businesses.
There is a very simple solution to all this, buy a good blender and put the wheat in the blender and then sift it and wala you have whole wheat flour and no chemicals It is so so so good for you It stops inflammation arthritis And I believe the reason why we say: Give us this day our daily bread just use it for pancakes and watch you health improve instantly.

Sara
Sara
4 years ago

It's not the proteins that are a problem. It's the Round Up Ready that farmers spray (drench) on the wheat before harvest. Round Up causes cancer. Would anyone spray Round Up on their food and then eat it?

Peter
Peter
5 years ago

It's all about trust and who to believe. I prefer health issues with food backed up with plenty of scientific evidence for and against evidence than make my own decision.
Can't stand hype doctors, Wonder how much movie stars or famous people make per infomercial

LeCoyoteRuse
LeCoyoteRuse
5 years ago

I find it interesting that Dr Oz and Dr Davis all appeal to women to sell their "science". How about getting an audience full of men and see how the presentation is accepted. I have the sneaking suspicion the two good "doctors" would be laughed off the stage.

Rodney
Rodney
5 years ago

If its been grown and made like it was in ancient times its good for you,the problem is the food industry isn't regulated very good in any country so limit any processed food or liquid food,they can't be trusted,if its in a package its not that good for you and has little life in it regardless off how good the package might make it out to be,you are a living organism and you begin to die when you put dead lifeless old food in it.

LauraGH
LauraGH
5 years ago

If people were even half as concerned about sugar (the real culprit behind metabolic disease) as they apparently are about gluten, we'd have the diabetes 2/obesity problem nearly licked.

Mindy
Mindy
5 years ago

PURE GARBAGE!!! This program didn't disprove that wheat causes the many ailments Dr. Davis. None of your hit-men/women disproved the studies Dr. Davis cited, nor can they claim that science proves that wheat isn't a problem for people. My partner isn't Celiac but he DOES have gut issues w/ wheat! Bloating, gas, pain...that's all real and only occurs when he eats modern wheat. When he doesn't eat any grains he has no joint pain....that's not a study...that is ACTUAL proof for him that grains incl wheat causes arthritic like conditions for him. It is the same for me too! Since I cut out sugar and grains I have no arthritic pain in my hands or knees when I wake up. Your program SUCKS!

bobby
bobby
6 years ago

The debate about wheat has NOTHING to do whether it is GMO or not. !!!
The fact is that wheat causes health problems.
I know because I have experienced for many decades before any discussion was going on that I had a problem with eating wheat products. I didn't need to be told. The health degradation was evident to me without discussion.
Therefore I feel obligated out of experience to let others know the truth AS I HAVE LIVED IT.
What this documentary smacks of immediately is the same type of ridicule that typifies Climate Change deniers.......
"Ha ha, These people are conspiracy nuts."
Anyone who doesn't understand the negative impact of wheat on health by now, will never admit to it because, like climate change deniers, they have a vested interest in doing otherwise and they don't want to.
My advice is to test it out for yourself and see if you find yourself in better health.
If there is no benefit then you are one of the lucky ones.
If you do feel an increase in health then do what is necessary.

CoolWithNew
CoolWithNew
6 years ago

I would be willing to bet as the trend dies away (as it inevitably will just like "Atkins" etc) that we will see the wheat growers forced to adopt GMO wheat.

CoolWithNew
CoolWithNew
6 years ago

I have seen enough of the way things can be massaged... and people and industries pushed and pulled this way and that that is has made me seriously wonder if the "gluten free" thing has as much to do with Monsanto (now Bayer) punishing the wheat farmers who so diligently resisted GMO wheat in the US. "Gluten Free" blew up... just exploded in such a way that, even living on the west coast in a city where health trends are evident early... the marketing of the idea way outpaced the adoption of it. Of course short of a leak there is no way to know for sure, but I am quite suspicious of this. Of course there are people who need to eliminate gluten, but for most people its more important just to make sure they are getting whole grain. I can't imagine what "gluten free" has done to the wheat farmers... and that may have been the point all along...

C. B.
C. B.
6 years ago

All I need to know is this: I caught a few minutes of Dr. Davis on TV. I got his book a few days late and read it one sitting. I started eliminating modern wheat from my diet. My sugar craving shrank in about five days. I lost 31 pounds over a summer. I felt better, especially my knees. I still eat buckwheat, rye, oats, polenta, quinoa, rice, farro, teff and other grains. I still think it is something about modern wheat, not a gluten issue with me.

lizz
lizz
7 years ago

like to forward to a friend

Pankaj Jena
Pankaj Jena
8 years ago

I see this documentary to be clearly an organized attack on Dr. William Davis by Wheat Industry big guns behind the scene.

JamesWales
JamesWales
8 years ago

Great video by a wheat eating vegan dispells all these low carb videos made by grossly overweight fraudsters :

Wheat is extremely safe and healthy and proven so by decades of medical research and thousands of years of usage by humankind. Everything this man with the "Wheat belly" book claims is an outright lie. This man is a total fraudster. Only the light of truth can stop it. There is no such thing as GMO wheat which is not made clear in this report. There was one study where old women seemed to have some mild stomach upset which soon was proven not to be connected with wheat- that is the spawn of all of this nonsense. Sugar causes diabetes not wheat. One way to help fight diabetes is to consume 2 to 3 tablespoons of coconut oil a day. Stay away from table sugar aka sucrose in all food. Stop using sugar and replace it with options like Stevia and Splenda. And eat plenty of greens and other multi colored vegetables and fruits. Invest in a juice machine and add a tall glass of fresh juices to your diet. But do not stop eating wheat or pasta- it's all good for you. Wheat works in the body to improve health and protect us from disease. Wheat is a good source of food energy.
The fact is before the 1900s wheat was the bulk of most people's diets throughout the world, including the USA and Europe and heart disease was relatively rare as was cancer. There is a statistical correlation showing a massive increase in heart disease, cancer and other illness following the shift away from wheat as being the main source of calories over to meats and cheeses and processed sugar.

Cromero
Cromero
8 years ago

Crop desiccating with glysophate... Look that up. It's an absolutely fact, that this is done, wide scale.

... We are 'absolutely' ingesting pesticides in our wheat; among other things... That harms the microbiome in our gut.

Also, grains in the USA have been genetically altered, to be resistant to the damaging affect of toxic pesticides, in ordered to withstand being drenched in it, and nit die. However, humans have not undergone such modifications... Yet we are being fed that poison, and we're getting sick; all while being told that we're paranoid and delusional if we think that glysophate laden wheat is making us that way.

Goldie
Goldie
8 years ago

Wheat is not genetically modified. If anyone has proof otherwise, please email me. Let me reason with everyone. People have LIVED on grains for thousands of years. Why now do we have all these problems? Because of processing which removes nutrients and puts in additives that don't grow in nature. Solution: prepare and eat only foods in their natural form. Read the labels. Better yet, follow recipes using only ingredients that are real foods. I have used whole organic wheat berries to make my own bread and foods (from whole grains) for many years and my immune and health improved after the first 3 months. I have not needed a doctor in 20 years. Being healthy, my body responds to simple things to heal me when something minor happens. My bread is delicious, easy to digest, filling, and I use NO ADDITIVES to make it taste great. Diabetics can eat it safely. It's all in the simple lost knowledge of how to prepare it so it responds as bread should both before and after it's eaten. Stop listening to this dude. He obviously doesn't know how to cook or about real food and nutrition or he wouldn't have gotten sick to begin with. Unhealthy people can't think well either. But they don't see it. Anyway, I never take advice from people who exhibit the opposite of what they say. Go listen to and read Michael Pollan. Stop blaming Monsanto for all your problems. Just don't eat their foods. You can say NO by not buying it and educate yourself with the facts. (And as for potatoes, get the waxy kind. That's what the Irish lived on and proliferated off of for many years until the potato famine. They are filled with lots of nutrients. Don't forget to slap on the real quality bacon, real butter, and real cheese made from good milk all over them! Yum! Beats any restaurant you'll ever go to!)

mysterioso
mysterioso
8 years ago

I have been on the "wheat free" diet for 3 years now. It also includes rice free and potato free, pretty much a starch free diet. I "Wheat Belly" when it first came out and was sceptical. But, after 4 months on the diet I had to go in for my yearly physical. My doctor asked me what medications I was taking ! He assumed that because my cholosterol had dropped dramatically, my blood sugar had dropped dramatically, my blood pressure had dropped dramatically…..that I had to be taking some pills. When I told him I simply removed "starches" from my diet, he laughed. He said there is no proof that a wheat free or starch free diet gives any of the results I was showing. I said the proof is in the results of my blood workup and blood pressure test. He still wouldn't give it his blessing. Then I found out why. There is pretty much a rule that doctors cannot proscribe FOOD or reduction of it, as medicine. (even though Hipocratis stated, "let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food). Another year went by and I remained on the starch free diet. Time for the yearly physical. This time my blood workup showed that my counts were even lower than before. Cholosterol down, (and I eat red meat and dary), blood sugar down, blood pressure down. Another side effect is that the pain in my fingers from arthrits has pretty much gone away. The wheat lobby, which is pretty much Monsanto, is attacking the no wheat or starch advocates because its cutting into their profits. Too bad Monsanto. You poision people.

trumpsahead
trumpsahead
8 years ago

That was a waste of time; or more like an advertisement for Wheat Belly book.
I agree that Wheat is genetically modified, which is what is causing our problems, but not one piece of added info to that claim? What a lousy video.
I had read quite a while ago that Monsanto's Roundup is what is causing the problem. Roundup is sprayed on the crop two weeks or so before Harvest so the entire crop will go begin to die simultaneously. Monsanto's Roundup has been used on wheat ever since Gluten became the culprit in the conspiracy, and conspiracy it is.
This info of Roundup as the true villain can be easily discovered when searched for, but MSM never tells us of these trespasses against us by almighty Monsanto. I've also read farmers are now using Roundup on other crops on a regular basis: beets, yams/sweet potatoes, and maybe onions.
The way I see it, if we do not take responsibility for our own lives, even at the cost of fighting for our lives, then we are truly doomed. As I write we are under siege by our very own traitorous and tyrannical govt who cares not one iota for America or its citizens. It is time each and every one of us learn that our corrupt govt and unbridled corporations the world over see all humans and the Earth also as nothing more than a commodity to be exploited for the monetary gain.
No sense praying to God; he knows what's going on and sent us our Forefathers who wrote the wonderful Constitution which is essentially in the trash can now. It is time to take back our lives and be responsible. Wheat is bad because Monsanto is bad.

Coco
Coco
8 years ago

I've studied both sides of this topic and see pros/cons with each side. I also read the book, Wheat Belly... and having a brain of my own, ability to discern information for myself and not suffering from believingeverythingIread-itis; the book didn't result in a ceremonial burning of everything in my house that contains wheat or gluten. The one thing 5th Estate gets correct: wheat isn't an enemy. However, their blatant disregard for objective reporting - given the author does not call out Canadian wheat farmers - he factually documents the man-made AND organic/natural transformation of wheat over decades (some circles call this 'evolution'... Fifth Estate calls it unfounded quackery) .... bottom line, some people went to a lot of effort to debunk the book. I agree: wheat isn't the enemy; rather, politically-motivated, manipulative, propaganda reporting like this program is the far greater threat and hazard to our health. Shame on you Fifth Estate.... Incidentally: I love fresh pasta and my wheat belly...

Sakura
Sakura
8 years ago

GM food industry, fertilizer and pesticide industries have same stockholders as those of war making industries. This documentary is backfiring the makers, exposing them and their fears of devaluation of their stocks.

Paul
Paul
8 years ago

After watching 'Merchants of Doubt', this documentary seems like a move by the wheat industry, using the same counter-arguments: "there is no "hard science", "minimal science proving GMO crops present a serious health threat", and specifically attacking the critic (Dr. Davis), and not showing scientific evidence proving Davis' claims about wheat wrong.

Loo Cartier
Loo Cartier
8 years ago

Instead of listening to this man gable on (I could only put up with him for so long) Try going without wheat, barley, rye, and oats for 21 days and see how you feel. I feel great after only two weeks. The best part is my cravings have stopped and I am back to having a healthy relationship with food. The girl had the perfect answer when he asks, Who do you trust at the end of the day"? and she says "Your body" wow, so intelligent and so concise. How can you argue with that?

aranyani
aranyani
8 years ago

Neither side offered solid information. Where is the info on exactly how grains have been modified? Is wheat a hybrid or does the DNA contain bacteria genes or glyphosate as with GMO corn, soy, beets?

TheCovertChronicle
TheCovertChronicle
8 years ago

How about this, if people are losing weight and feeling better, why go out of your way to judge this wheat free diet??? lol Why because corporations are going bankrupt thats why!

After being a Lyme patient for 5 years, I now understand how scientists, scientific data, and lack of scientific data can be manipulated to suit corporations and governments needs. Most scientists and doctors will state there is no such thing as chronic lyme and scientific evidence to support it, just like the wheat free diet. Yet, you have the Embers study that shows borrelia bacteria still persists after 6 months of antibiotic treatment. The argument then becomes, well that's one study, (sound familiar?). I'm thinking well isn't that enough to question the CDC's guidelines.

Instead of using an analogy, lets talk about the question this documentary didn't raise is, like why so many people are coming down with Celiac disease, Wheat Intolerances, Chrons, ulcerative colitis, and other digestive diseases nowadays. Non of these diseses were prevalent 50, 100, 200, 1000 years ago. First thing we should be asking ourselves, since these diseases are digestive related, we should be looking at the food products we consume the most. Wheat and GMO corn/high fructose corn syrup being in everything, well that's enough for me to be concerned about these products.

I also want to say, this documentary is very one sided, they interviewed multiple scientists and doctors to debunk the wheat free diet. You see bits and pieces of Dr. William Davis as well as some of his supporters at the patient level. Yet they didn't interview any scientists or doctors who would help support Dr. William Davis and his idealogy. Let me tell you from experience after going through hell of Lyme Disease, there are plenty of ILADS doctors and scientists that I have met that support Dr. Davis and his diet.

I like what the one young lady said, who do you trust in the end? "Your body!!!" I say damn right!

Through my own experience and suffering from Lyme Disease, I feel a massive difference of eating gluten free rice bread compared to wheat bread. My joints don't get inflamed, dont get any headaches, nor do I feel bloated! I tested negative for Celiac.

As for this Fabien L'Amour that's going out of his way to debunk everyone's response to this documentary. Man oh man, got a little narcissism in ya? lol Let some other people respond to these people's comments...

Fabien L'Amour
Fabien L'Amour
8 years ago

I just watched an interview with him on CBS This Morning, where he claims researchers breeded a new protein named gliadin in wheat. Gliadin is a component of gluten which was always part of wheat so that's a falsehood.

He also says gliadin is an opiate which is again wrong. It was found it could bind to opiate receptors in a laboratory study with rat brain tissue in 1984. No study was done in humans. There is no scientific evidence that gliadin stimulates appetite. So that's 2 more wrongs for Doctor Davis.

If people ate on average 440 more calories per day because of wheat as he claims, every wheat eater would add 46 lbs per year! I don't see a lot of 1000 lbs bread eaters on the street.

I stopped analysis after 59 seconds of interview, how many more falsehoods does one need to finally understand he is twisting the truth to sell more books?

There is a great article titled "Wheat Belly Gives Me a Bellyache" by Dr Joe Schwarcz director of the Office for Science & Society at McGill University that lists more nonsense from Dr Davis.

For the science inclined, the article titled "Wheat Belly — An Analysis of Selected Statements and Basic Theses from the Book" is an even more complete 13 pages scientific analysis of the mistakes and lies of Dr Davis. There are 116 references to scientific documents that support the article.

"Nearly 25% of Americans (many more than the projected 3 million CD patients in the U.S.) are reducing or cutting gluten from their diets. This remarkable trend in the general population reflects the misconception that gluten can be harmful for everybody and, therefore, should be avoided to stay healthy, to lose weight, or even to prevent severe diseases."

Prof. Carlo Catassi, Department of Pediatrics, Università Politecnica delle Marche, Ancona, Italy and Prof. Alessio Fasano, Mucosal Immunology and Biology Research Center, Massachusetts General Hospital

mysterioso
mysterioso
8 years ago

I read the book a few years ago. I tried the diet and am still on it. I lost 25 lbs. My blood sugar level dropped dramatically. My cholesterol level dropped dramatically. My blood pressure dropped dramatically. I did not increase my physical routine at all or change any thing else in my diet except the elimination of wheat products and other carbohydrates. All of these changes were documented by my doctor in my annual physical over two years. I would call that scientific evidence.

Foodie
Foodie
8 years ago

What an uninformed, unscientific documentary trying to stop the healthful changes happening to the western diet, the SAD diet, that has caused untold damage to our bodies and our children's bodies. shameful.

Ian Bell
Ian Bell
8 years ago

What a hatchet job. I eat wheat, but im seriously now reconsidering this. Im always conscious and suspicious of 'protestith too much' films like this, that try too hard to get the audience to think THEIR way.

rgaura
rgaura
8 years ago

Awful documentary! Boring, empty, a he said she said format. When the interviewer asked, "What will we have without science?" I answered, "This movie!" There is much pertinent information on the human biome project, paleo diets, Weston price foundation, GAPS. There is tons of science. Why not ask if that grain was sprayed with glyphosate on harvest? Look at spiraling gluten intolerance numbers. Weak. Stinky. Who financed this?

The Periled Sea
The Periled Sea
8 years ago

Look to the studies with Johns Hopkins and University Hospital linking wheat to not just mood swings but schizophrenia. Also, find publications and studies by Alessio Fasano, MD, Director, Center for Celiac Research

The Periled Sea
The Periled Sea
8 years ago

Your body naturally provides an antibody to fight wheat (non-gmo). If you go off wheat for several weeks your body will no longer manufacture that antibody and so you make yourself gluten/wheat allergic. I learned the hard way by following the Adkins diet until it was too late.

SmoTh
SmoTh
8 years ago

As far as I know, wheat is sub pair with other foods. It is not that it is unhealthy, it's just not healthy enough to be the main part of the human diet, nor is meat. Hominid (Human like apes, Latin isn't my strong side) have been designed through evolution to live off of fruit, vegetables, and the occasional meat for the better part of 2.000.000 years, if not more. Wheat have been in our diet for, I don't know, less than 5000 years? To live off of mostly wheat and meat, is literally why Americans are so obese. (and a lack of excise of course) So wheat is a contributor to obesity. Obesity is a huge contributor to a long range of very deadly diseases. Therefor, too much wheat in your diet, is detrimental to your health. Pretty straight forward logic if you ask me. When you eat wheat, you are taking out other parts of your diet that is more beneficial to you, like fruit and vegetables. How much salad is in your average pasta salad? Not much, right?

There are deviations of course, I'm one of them, I can eat whatever I want, and sit on my skinny ass all day long without gaining as much as a pound. However, ever since I started eating as much fruit and vegetables as I can stomach, my brain function, immune response, and general overall health have increased substantially. Fruit and vegetables is super good for the human body, wheat, eh, not as much.

Edit: English isn't my first language, so please keep that in mind. Error corrections are greatly appreciated.

Ofelas
Ofelas
8 years ago

A lot of mis (mal) information in these comments. There have been tests of GMO wheat in the US (also GMO wheat was discovered growing in fields in Oregon in 2014 NOT where it had been planted) and certain companies are considering making it available by the use of the usual biased testing and collusion with the regulatory agencies. The only thing stopping this is that most wheat (actually most grains including rice and other non-gluten grains) is sprayed with glyphosate (Roundup, a plant herbicide/pesticide) shortly before harvest, and yes these grains will contain a certain amount of glyphosate. The intent is to kill the grain so that it will be ready for harvest at the desired time. In fact, the above mentioned Oregon tracts were discovered when the fields were sprayed prior to harvest and some of the wheat did NOT die as was desired. So, currently there is neither need nor desire within the Agri-bussines community for GMO wheat. Note that the WHO has listed glyphosate as carcinogenic. Genetically Modifying an Organism is extremely dangerous. E. coli (nobody spells out Escherichia because people then think it is a Mexican grunge band) is a common soils bacteria and essential to the continuation of higher level life forms on earth. It is in (or should be) every humans gut, most animals guts, and is most assuredly in raw milk (which is neither illegal nor unobtainable in most US States). Over the years a number of strains (genetically different) have arisen that cause minor or serious illness especially to those whose immune systems have not been exposed to E. coli, by for instance, drinking raw milk. In the real world of bacteria and viruses humans can either fight them and lose or learn to co-exist with them symbiotically. As for science one should always ask, Science in the Service of Whom? No amount of science will ever change a religious (political) conviction. On this documentary film I can only say that someone was willing to pay something to counter the opinion of Dr. Davis. Its intent is clearly to make people feel uncomfortable with Dr. Davis and comfortable with what is a clearly damaged worldwide food, wheat. The promoter (and profiteers) of GMO foods do not care what you know or understand as long as you eat it. And people will eat GMO foods as long as they feel comfortable doing so. People act out of their feelings and justify their actions by what they know.

Leigh Atkins
Leigh Atkins
8 years ago

Who cares if wheat sales go down & some big fat cat looses a little profit selling his wheat?
The gap in the market will soon be filled with enterprising farmers who see sales going up for quinoa, rye, flax, barley, chia, sesame, brown rice, buckwheat, etc. That's how it's always been & that's the best part of capitalism.
The other really significant factor is that in sowing these other grains, the land & our diets will be saved from the curse of the monoculture. It's no good for the dirt & it's DEFINITELY no good for the bacteria in our intestinal tracts.
I say let this bloke bang on, yeah sure, DEMAND PROOF of his claims, but don't complain about the side-effects. It just sounds like this pro-wheat interviewer is just trying to bash this guy before the doco even starts anyway - if he keeps up like this all through the vid, I'm just going somewhere else.

Archall
Archall
8 years ago

Didn't read that book. Fear people - commune way to control them. Just for money :D. Ridiculous how doctor made him self a Jesus of wheat heaters.

Fabien L'Amour
Fabien L'Amour
8 years ago

lol complete nonsense, in many Asian countries, wheat is not a major part of the daily diet and yes they do have diseases listed by Dr Wheat Belly as being caused by wheat.
The most damning fact that completely discredit Dr William Davis as an expert on wheat is that there is NO GM WHEAT commercially grown in Canada or the United States.

"The U.S. is the world's leading wheat exporter. Many foreign markets have said they will not purchase GM wheat, or any wheat grown in the same region because of the potential of cross-contamination of non-GM crops with GM traits. So far, genetically modified wheat has not been approved in the U.S. for commercial use. We must continue to oppose the theft of a great common resource and protect the sovereignty of independent farmers and our right to safe food."

Source : Organic Consumers Association, Genetically Modified Wheat Resource Center

Pol
Pol
8 years ago

Shame on you CBC. You have missed the point. The grains that are genetically modified come from Mon and they are Mon property, not original strains bred the natural way over the generations. And if you did a test on grocery store processed bread i bet you the results would come out differently. Of course you would mis-represent the information to wage propoganda war against someone who definitely doesn't have it all right, but at least hes doing a better job then our paid off scientists and news networks.