Why You Should Rethink Your Carb Intake: The Truth About Grains and Fiber

I’ve practiced nutrition coaching for over 8 years. I’m always fascinated by the disbelief when I tell folks that they do not need carbs, grains, or fiber, and the fact that these “foods” make you unhealthy.

Important update to this story: My article explains why we do not require fiber with highly respected Medical Doctors backing up my claim and explaining the scientific facts

I’m not asking you to believe me. Feel free to argue with MDs, whether you are a Ph.D. or a non-expert layperson.

Please watch this video with Dr. Ken Berry and Dr. Zoe Harcombe – it’s an eye-opener!

But wait, here’s what people say:

“What am I supposed to have with my meals if I don’t eat pasta, rice, noodles, or bread?”

“Nothing,” is my short reply.

My longer one is:

“Eat more eggs and meat!”

My clients and readers say this all the time:

“It’s difficult not to eat any grains.”

I understand your feelings — I really do. After all, you’ve spent your whole life nursing your (unknown) food addiction with these staples and treats.

I get the same comments from all over the world. People think their country and traditional diets are the norm.

“How can you expect me not to eat rice? I’m Cambodian.”

They say the same in Indonesia, Vietnam, Thailand, Singapore, India, China, Japan, Korea, etc.

It’s identical — worldwide.

• I’m French — how can I not eat bread and croissants for breakfast?

• I’m Italian — you can’t expect me not to eat pizza and pasta!

• I’m German — I can’t go without my bread dumplings and deep-fried “Schnitzels.”

Every country has its version of grain-carbohydrate-fiber-based food.

It’s either rice and noodles or something made from white or brown flour.

As you can observe, every nation, culture, and people has the same problem as you.

Highly addictive grains, carbohydrates, and fiber are the base of their diet. Everyone is hooked and dependent on their next feast of grains and sugar!

In other words, your food addiction controls your emotions and body, instead of allowing you to be in charge of yourself.

Check out my video where I talk about healthy habits that changed my life:

What the So-called “Experts” Claim:

We need carbohydrates for energy, high performance, and our brain functions.

No, you don’t. That’s a myth. Let’s be blunt — it’s false information.

You’ve been led to believe it, but you sure as hell don’t need it!

You are not born with a carbohydrate sugar-burning metabolism.

The opposite — you’re a born fat and protein eater! Breastmilk is your feast as a baby — primarily healthy fats, protein, vitamins and minerals, and minimal carbs.

The amount of sugar in lactose-based carbs compared to the protein and fat in mother’s milk is negligible.

Note: Let’s remember what happens to carbs/sugar in your body. What is not burnt off is converted to fat and locked away in your triglycerides.

This ongoing process causes insidious weight gain and metabolic syndrome.

Society, culture, convenience, industry, and time have made carbs (and sugar) your #1 staple food.

The reason for that? Grains are the most produced crops on the planet and are subsidized and cheap.

“Corn is the most produced crop globally with 1.1 billion tons, followed by wheatwith 760.9 million tons and rice with 756.7 million tons.” Farm Journal.

The food industry makes thousands of highly processed “food products” using cheap grains. They then sell them to you with profit margins as big as 2000%!

Everyone loves their cookies, crackers, cereals, bread, noodles, potato chips, and all the rest of the trashy junk food snacks.

The more you buy, the merrier. It’s cheap, satisfying, and fulfilling stuff, making you come back for more, day in and day out.

That’s the game, guys….Hook you – eat, rinse, repeat!

You unknowingly continue this crazy cycle getting fatter and sicker by the year.

But I need fiber to digest my food.

Do you? Who told you that myth? Ever thought about that?

I’ll tell you who made that one up. Your favorite breakfast cereal founders.

“Breakfast is the most important meal of the day!”

The line “Breakfast is the most important meal of the day” was invented in the 19th century by Seventh Day Adventists James Caleb Jackson and John Harvey Kellogg to sell their newly invented breakfast cereal.

Oh boy, did that slogan work or what?

“How lobbyists made breakfast ‘the most important meal of the day”

“In the late 19th century, in the middle of a general healthier living fad, that breakfast cereals got their start at sanatoriums founded by followers of the newly formed Seventh-day Adventist religion.”

“These religious health gurus opened sanatoriums and introduced people to vegetarian diets and eating bland, whole wheat as a way to counter ill health.”

“The first cereal, invented by James Caleb Jackson, and the better-known Kellogg’s brand, invented by John Harvey Kellogg, were both born at sanatoriums.”

“Jackson was a preacher, and Kellogg a religious man who believed that masturbation was the greatest evil, which bland, healthy foods like cornflakes could prevent.”

TheGuardian.com

And there you have it, my friends.

That’s how cereal and wheat-based foods were engrained in people’s brains as a “must-have” healthy food.

Fun Fact: For fanatical religious reasons, centered around the notion that “masturbation was the greatest evil.”

How disturbed does that make you feel?

Back to Fiber.

The mainstream has spent decades promoting fiber as healthy and necessary for digestion and gut health.

The goal → sell more high-fiber foods → grains = carbs = sugar = MONEY!

Fiber, grains, carbohydrates, and the food industry are all interlinked with each other to make big bucks from you.

Brain & Glucose.

Your liver produces adequate glucose for your brain to function optimally.

The liver supplies sugar or glucose by turning glycogen into glucose in a process called glycogenolysis. The liver also can manufacture necessary sugar or glucose by harvesting amino acids, waste products, and fat byproducts. This process is called gluconeogenesis. Diabetes Education Online

Final Thoughts

Don’t eat what your food eats!

Instead, do what your body is designed to do:

Chew, ingest, and process a diet primarily composed of animal products–meats, organs, marrow, eggs, select lectin-free vegetables, and vitamin-packed herbs and spices.

That’s all you need to spice up your life, stay lean and healthy, and most likely live longer too.

Rob