nabeepchen

Again, I can’t take credit for that catchy title. It is the name of an upcoming seminar about, well, you guessed, how wheat can be detrimental to your brain.

Wheat? How can that be? Bread is the staff of life, they ate in the bible, it is the staple food in a chunk of the world, so how can it be causing havoc in my neurons?

Well, everything has a shadow component. Just because we think it’s good for us, doesn’t mean it is. Or, while some foods may in fact be very healthy, if you are allergic to them, or have an intolerance to them, they can be very deadly. People with celiac disease cannot digest wheat, along with a number of related grains. It may take years for the symptoms to show up, but when they do, the outcome is very painful and often it may take months or even years to get a diagnosis.

In this particular lecture, it is pointed out that over the years, both the average American’s consumption of wheat and the occurrence of neurological, learning and behavioral problems have been on the rise. And there is a link–many people with Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s, Multiple Sclerosis, migraine headaches, and childhood developmental conditions, such as autism and ADHD — also have sensitivities to wheat.

I’m not a big bread eater, and yet I’ve done things like go to the market, and buy a cornucopia of products, but not the item that I originally went there for. So what’s my problem? Hard to blame the wheat!