Think wheat, even whole-wheat is good for you? Have a read of this and the article from which it comes and think about it again...

It is not just the amount but also the hidden components of wheat that drive weight gain and disease. This is not the wheat your great-grandmother used to bake her bread. It is FrankenWheat -- a scientifically engineered food product developed in the last 50 years.

How Wheat -- and Gluten -- Trigger Weight Gain, Prediabetes, Diabetes and More

This new modern wheat may look like wheat, but it is different in three important ways that all drive obesity, diabetes, heart disease, cancer, dementia and more.

  1. It contains a Super Starch -- amylopectin A that is super fattening.
  2. It contains a form of Super Gluten that is super-inflammatory.
  3. It contains forms of a Super Drug that is super-addictive and makes you crave and eat more.

— Mark Hyman, MD: Three Hidden Ways Wheat Makes You Fat

Great article that effectively sums up a lot of the information in Wheat Belly which is a great book and definitely worth a read, even if you're not a coeliac or even think you have a wheat intolerance.

Actually come to think of it: I challenge you, the reader, to give up wheat entirely (don't substitute it with gluten free products either) for 3 weeks and tell me how you look and feel at the end. Then I want you to eat two slices of whole-wheat toast or a sandwich or a normal bowl of pasta and then tell me how you feel a few hours later :-)

If you don't notice a difference, especially a few hours after eating wheat again, then all you've lost is 3 weeks of wheat in your life. If however you do notice a difference, then maybe it's time to drop the wheat, or at least cut down on wheat significantly.