>Reason 3: Even whole grains produce an unhealthfully
>high insulin response
>Rebuttal: What about sweet potatoes, yams and beans.
>Those food have low
>glycemic indices.

Glucose is just one sugar.  Fructose and sucrose also have ill effects.

>Reason 1: Grains and legumes were introduced very
>recently (in evolutionary
>terms) into the human diet, and so humans are not
>adapted to eat them.
>Rebuttal: Just because humans have started eating
>grains recently doesn't mean
>that they are not good for us.

Tell her to look around her!  On a more serious and annoying note, some
people's minds are made up and it doesn't matter WHAT you say.  I have an
MD-friend who fits into this category; I'm sure THAT restores your faith in
The Medical Establishment.  When he couldn't come up with another
scientific rebuttal to my anti-grain argument, he went the ecological route:
"But a high-protein diet is bad for the environment."  I could've kept going
but life's too short so I've long-since thrown in the towel.

I have a great Cordain paper I can send you.  Contact me privately.  It
documents, among other things, auto-immune disorders that followed the
introduction of grains into the human diet.  Remaining hunter-gatherers also
suffer no autoimmune disorders.  That tidbit sometimes makes them pause to
ponder.

Otherwise, just tell 'em beans make you fart.  ;o)

Dori Zook
Denver, CO

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