Ancient Wheat Improves Heart Health

 

'Dr. William Davis in his book, Wheat Belly,¹ claims that wheat products in the American diet parallel the expansion of our waistlines.

This is because wheat today is not the same wheat eaten by ancient people, or even people just a few decades ago.
Wheat today is hybridized and crossbred to make the wheat plant resistant to environmental conditions, such as drought, or pathogens, such as fungi.

But most of all, genetic changes have been induced to increase yield per acre.
Such enormous strides in yield have required drastic changes in the wheat’s genetic code.
Such fundamental genetic changes have also come at a price.'

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