Thanks Ray and Ron,
Really interesting and indeed very disturbing and sad.
June

On Sat, Dec 1, 2012 at 9:40 PM, Ray Audette <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> And you thought it was all in your head.
> It was!
>
> If you are a morphine addict, you can instantly
> lose your high with an injection of Naloxone, an opiate blocker.
> Surprisingly Naloxone works as a
> diet suppressor as well, because wheat acts like morphine on the brain.
>
> An odd series of clinical studies conducted over the past 40 years has
> demonstrated that foods can have opiate-like properties. Opiate
> blockers, like
> naloxone, can thereby block appetite. One such study demonstrated 28%
> reduction in caloric intake after naloxone administration. But opiate
> blocking
> drugs don't block desire for all foods, just some.
>
> What food is known to be broken down into opiate-like polypeptides?
>
> Wheat. On digestion in the gastrointestinal tract, wheat gluten is
> broken down into a collection of polypeptides that are released into the
> bloodstream. These gluten-derived polypeptides are able to cross the
> blood-brain barrier and enter the brain. Their binding to brain cells
> can be
> blocked by naloxone or naltrexone administration. These polypeptides
> have been named exorphins, since they exert morphine-like activity on
> the brain.
> While you may not be "high," many people experience a subtle reward, a
> low-grade pleasure or euphoria.
>
> For the same reasons, 30% of people who stop consuming wheat experience
> withdrawal, i.e., sadness, mental fog, and fatigue.
>
> Wouldn't you know that the pharmaceutical industry would eventually
> catch on? Drug company startup, Orexigen, will be making FDA application
>  for its
> drug, Contrave, a combination of naltrexone and the antidepressant,
> buproprion. It is billed as a blocker of the "mesolimbic reward system"
> that
> enhances weight loss.
>
> Step back a moment and think about this: We are urged by the USDA and
> other "official" sources of nutritional advice to eat more "healthy
> whole
> grains." Such advice creates a nation of obese Americans, many the
> unwitting victims of the new generation of exorphin-generating,
> high-yield dwarf
> mutant wheat. A desperate, obese public now turns to the drug industry
> to provide drugs that can turn off the addictive behavior of the
> USDA-endorsed
> food.
>
> There is no question that wheat has addictive properties. You will soon
> be able to take a drug to block its effects. That way, the food industry
> profits, the drug industry profits, and you pay for it all.
>
>  http://heartscanblog.blogsp...
>



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