TV ads, media conversations, magazine articles, even advice from the American Heart Association and USDA (a la Food Pyramid) all agree: eat more whole grains, get more fiber.
What happens when you follow the advice to add more and more whole grains to your diet?
Look around you: Appetite expands, people gain weight and balloon around their middle, blood sugar skyrockets, inflammatory responses are ignited, pre-diabetes and diabetes eventually develop.
Remember the kid's joke: Why did...
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