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Grain Brain

the Surprising Truth About Wheat, Carbs, and Sugar--your Brain's Silent Killers
Jun 11, 2014
The book is a complete fraud. Moreover, it is simply the most extreme example of the kinds of exaggerated claims made by the new "diet doctor" quacks that are being promoted my public television stations eager to rake in money from elderly viewers who are worried about their heart and brain health. Being sixty, I might easily be one of the targets, but reading Perlmutter's book just reminded me of now little proof other than practitioner annecdotes these doctors often have for many of the claims they make. The fact that they burry the claims in some other fairly well-known facts (that consumption of excess processed flour and sugar are a source of obesity and diabetes) just tends to confuse the issue that there is no real evidence, for example, that GLUTEN at all is any sort of dietary "toxin" (unless you have an allergy to it). Perlmutter's books is miserable. If it does anything, it should convince you that medical doctors are overrated as "scientists" and probably don't know what they are talking about half the time, or that they are simply writing garbage in order to rake in book profits. Rather than repeat some of the obvious scientific boners in the book, check out the criticisms in the following site. Admittedly the site promotes whole grains, but it also isolates many of the fraudulent arguments in Perlmutter's book. http://wholegrainalice.com/2013/10/grain-brain-book-review/