Low Carb is High Dumb by Dr. Donald A. Miller

Low carbohydrate diets are now the craze in the U.S.A. Fast

food stores even offer hamburgers in lettuce rather than in

buns (still with the fats of meat and sauces). Breads and

pastries modified for lower carbohydrates are now making

fortunes for suppliers. "Low carb salads", still drenched

with high fat dressings, are offered for "dieting."

So what?

This is a costly, stupid, perhaps health threatening fad.

When I was growing up, I did not understand that biblical

quotation of "Man does not live by bread alone", attributed

to Moses (old testament, torah) and Jesus (new testament).

Well, I understood that the message was meant to be "People

have spiritual as well as physical needs." But I had no

idea how people could live very long on bread. At that time,

I was used to spongy white bread with no character.

Somewhere along the way, I learned about whole grain breads,

and how peasants through the centuries had lived mostly on

dark breads that Marie Antoinnette would have rejected, with

occasional fortifications of cheese, eggs, sometimes meat.

Peasants tended to eat vegetables, but knights and nobles

often dismissed such as "farmers' fare", preferring lots of

meat, alcoholic beverages, pastries. Few people lived long

in those days, so statistical studies of life span versus

diet were not performed. (Statistics were not well known.)

So I read up on bread recipes, found a few health gurus who

argued for blends of whole grain wheat, cornmeal, rye, and

soy flour. A fairly recent development is triticale, a long

sought hybrid of wheat and rye. Why these blends? It turns

out that grains and legumes can provide all the balanced

protein that we need, without meat. Verrrry interesting!

Also, such blends contain valuable dietary fiber.

The prayer, "Give us this day our daily bread", is now

explained. Properly made, bread really can be "the staff of

life."

I have learned to love Asian foods that make heavy use of

soy beans, such as tempeh and tofu with noodles and stir fry

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BIO:

Dr. Donald A. Miller is author of "Easy Health Diet" http://easyhealthdiet.com/diet.htm, "Easy Exercise All Ages" http://easyhealthdiet.com/eeaa.htm, and numerous free articles on health http://easyhealthdiet.com/articles/.
Seven of ten deaths are caused by preventable diseases.

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