Krusty wrote:

> "Dana Carpender" > wrote
>
>>My position all along has simply been that grains (and concentrated carb
>>foods in general) are not essential in the diet, and are prejudicial to
>>health in many.
>
>
> And everyone in this thread has shown you why you're wrong.
>

No one has shown me why I'm wrong. Please give me one cite
demonstrating that grains are essential in the diet.

In the meanwhile, chew on this, from the Food and Nutrition Board:

"The lower limit of dietary carbohydrate compatible with life apparently
is zero, provided that adequate amounts of protein and fat are consumed.
However, the amount of dietary carbohydrate that provides for optimal
health in humans is unknown. There are traditional populations that
ingested a high fat, high protein diet containing only a minimal amount
of carbohydrate for extended periods of time (Masai), and in some cases
for a lifetime after infancy (Alaska and Greenland Natives, Inuits, and
Pampas indigenous people) (Du Bois, 1928; Heinbecker, 1928). There was
no apparent effect on health or longevity. Caucasians eating an
essentially carbohydrate-free diet, resembling that of Greenland
natives, for a year tolerated the diet quite well (Du Bois, 1928)."

Now, what was that about carbohydrate being essential?

Dana