356: Melissa Diane Smith Goes Against The Grain

Written on April 29, 2010

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Hello and welcome back to The Livin’ La Vida Low-Carb Show with Jimmy Moore!

Today, Jimmy chats with Melissa Diane Smith, author of Going Against the Grain: How Reducing and Avoiding Grains Can Revitalize Your Health. While we expect that people who listen to this podcast show is already at least partly familiar with the arguments against carbs derived from grains, Melissa has some rather eye-opening statistics to share that might just surprise you. For example, did you know that besides Celiac Disease, there are over 200 different medical conditions caused by gluten sensitivity? Listen in for more about this and many more interesting facts, including the report that chromium piccolinate is a useful and effective treatment for diabetes! You WON’T want to miss what is shared in this podcast.

LINKS MENTIONED IN EPISODE 356
- Enter Jimmy’s 5th Blogiversary Contest
- Melissa Diane Smith bio
- Going Against the Grain: How Reducing and Avoiding Grains Can Revitalize Your Health
- Against The Grain Nutrition

Violet

That was a really good interview. I am glad that you brought up the subject of kids nutrition at the end. Anyone that is trying to transition their kids into a new way of eating really needs to understand the implications of not doing it; otherwise they will give up, because it is an exhausting effort. It is also a very lonely endeavor since so many parents think that those little orange fish crackers are a food group.
http://www.TheBunnellFarm.com Tom Bunnell

Grains were originally a perfect food. — Just like vegetables and meat and fish and birds and other seeds and fruits and lentils and nuts and everything else we have eaten since the beginning of time. In true nature before mans intervention. Evereything we ate was perfect for millions of years including the portions and ratios of what we ate and how often we ate each of them.

Some thousands of years ago we humans began high breeding plants and vegetables and everything else. Asia, Europe, Egypt, North Africa, Central and South America. We turned these perfect grains and vegetables and everything else we eat into sugar factories. We became addicted to these stimulant drugs and addicted everybody else on the planet earth. Wheat, Rice, Corn and Beans and some of the fruits and vegetables, front and center.

Sugar and hybrid carbohydrates are like speed and amphetamines and cocaine. Pure stimulant drugs.

The effects on our minds and beings has been even greater than that of our psychical bodies.

This is why we are on the moon, folks!

Right on Jimmy! — Keep up the great work!

-Tom

Mical

Humans did not consume grains millions of years ago when we were Hunter/Gatherers. We didn’t start consuming grains until about 10,000 years ago…

Nannette Edmondson

July 29, 2010

Jimmy Moore

Dear Jimmy,
I enjoyed listening to your program with Melissa Diane Smith regarding Going Against the Grain. I’ve been aware of her news reports and have made some changes in my food program.

Recently I went back to corn since finding organic corn (not GMO). After hearing your discussion with Melissa I will again eliminate corn from my nutritional program.( Some of the points made were as follows:

1) Corn was identified as a grain. 2) It is a sweetener in corn syrup
and it’s a concern for weight
gain. (Although previously I
was informed of this, I didn’t
realize corn is used for fattening
up cows. That really hit me!)

I know you both didn’t want to discuss ‘Soy’ but I would like to have heard each of your findings.
In your discussion it was mentioned as a protein source yet not recommended.

I use a meat substitute and even more important for flavoring my foods. I’ve tried using molasses for flavoring but it doesn’t do the job although it works okay as a sweetener. If you know of something similar to the soy taste I would appreciate knowing about it.

Sincerely,

Nannette Edmondson
Nannette Edmondson

Dear Jimmy,

I sorry I failed to mention my Email address. It’s as followsP:

nannetteedmondson@yahoo.com

Also, I give your program a big ’10′!!

Sincerely,

Nannette Edmondson