>Here is a step in the wrong direction...
>http://dailynews.yahoo.com/headlines/bs/story.html?s=v/nm/19990708/bs/health_gr
>ains_1.html

Might also want to keep in mind, though, that eating more whole grains
probably _is_ an improvement on the SAD (standard American diet) of
high-glycemic-index, highly refined carbs and other foods. Most all
clinical/epidemiological health studies to date that find benefits to
grains and so forth use the SAD as the "control" diet, and there are many
things that are a relative improvement over that (i.e., at least less
harmful), but that at the same time may also still be considerably below
optimal. We are still in an era where all the current nutritional studies
operate pretty much with total lack of awareness of evolutionary baseline
norms, and fallaciously consider the standard Western diet the baseline
norm.

--Ward Nicholson <[log in to unmask]>