re: Anyone here read Wheat Belly, or are on a non-wheat diet?

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Regardless of your feelings about gluten, wheat, or various fad diets, wheat is a very recent entry into the human diet. Parts of northern Europe have eaten it for 2000 years or less. That's an eyeblink in evolutionary history. It saved a lot of people from starvation, but that doesn't mean it is ideal from a nutritional standpoint.

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I recall seeing on a documentary some time ago that average human life expectancy actually went down when we developed agriculture, stopped being wandering hunter/gatherers and settled down into communities. The reason given for that was that our diet changed from mostly meat and wild vegetation to mostly (or at least more) grain/bread, which was less nutritious. Increase in disease from concentration of population and the presence of vermin was also said to be a factor, but not as much as the change in diet.