There is a website...not this one but a different one that promotes a specific category of foods one ought to eliminate from their diet in order to improve their health. So I am reading about the philosophy and the science behind ridding one's life of this certain grain... Then there are these blogs written by the websites author that sell books and food products..the mixes are LOADED WITH SUGAR! I wanted to yell and scream and throw myself through the computer to ring the neck of this doctor!
So I came to the realization that processed foods are all traps worthless traps that will ensnare me to become a sugar addict again...

Interesting, I'd be curious to know who you are referring to. I know for me, eating low carb, I get frustrated when I get the freebie kindle cookbooks for low carb and open them up to find recipes that most low carbers would not consider acceptable. I guess it just goes to show the importance of understanding individual ingredients in a recipe or on a label!

I don't want to promote someone else's website. But if you do a google search of wheatbelly see what pops up.

I can not believe all the foods being promoted on the television. Without exception, all the food is blatantly unhealthy. Nary a fresh vegetable in sight. No wonder we can go all day and eat nothing but processed fake foods.

Probably becaused processed foods are cheap, can take months or years to go bad, and are bought by brand. Branding fruit or meat isn't as effective. If anything people wanting quality whole foods avoid the big brands.

Considering the USDA created the largest food group (grains and breads) based entirely on processed foods, who is the food industry to argue. Slap the Heart Healthy sticker on and you are good to go. Replace the saturated fat with high fructose corn syrup, artificial sweeteners, and an increase in carbs and sugars, and you've got yourself a low fat product with less calories. A classic example is the baked version of chips. Americans take a quick look at the calories and give it a thumbs up.

I don't blame the food industry one bit. We asked for it. It's going to take a long time to reverse the damage.

Grains, and many other foods, in and of themselves, are not bad, if used, in a natural, and not manufactured, state.

Wheat is not the enemy. It's the way it is turned into the bread products we eat that is the problem.

Along with to much medical profession.

Seriously! According to current pediatricians, none of us should have ever lived past 2 weeks old.

I'm old, my kids are 34, my Dr. said since you dried up, feed them enfamil. that was nasty stuff. The babies, (twins) hated it. I switched them to fresh goats milk!

My family milked cows, me and my sisters were raised on fresh cow milk! And we played in the dirt, and had mud fights, chased the chickens, drug the cat around, and the farm dog, with nothing other than a rabies vaccination, slept with us!

We had chokecherry trees, made jelly, butchered our own chickens, had free range eggs, before it became a fad!

I actually remember, after milking the cows, some was saved for fresh milk, some was dumped in a 50 gallon barrel with oats to stew because the hogs loved it, and some, me and great gramma, hung out in the kitchen, and churned butter, and saved the buttermilk!

Nothing better than fresh butter on baking day, and fresh baked bread! But, remember, we worked for that!

Anger is not a good motivator for me. There is so much good food in the world, too much good to be angry. Feed yourself and your children well and you will have accomplished a lot. Let go of anger.

Schierf... You have brought up an interesting observation..your family expended energy working for your foods. That is how traditional families were successful. They did not have hours of unstructured leisure time to sit around watching television while consuming 1000 nutrient free calories.
If I walked 3 miles back and forth to the grocer I probably would not have to go to Zumba 3 times a week.
And then maybe a baked potato would not send me into insulin overload.
But alas I have spent too many years stuffing myself sick with carb/sugar/fat.
I broke my pancreas and now I must be ever mindful of where my calories come from.