Think about the cycle of wheat converting to sugar, which adds to any other sugar being consumed, which affects the blood sugar balance, which over time affects the insulin receptors, which leads to insulin resistance, which leads to type 2 diabetes.
Then consider the gluten damage that also is created by wheat and other grains. There is tons of info out there about both these issues and the more you read, the more you recognize that we are what we eat and the clearer and easier it becomes to make healthy choices.
And that doesn't mean you can't stray occasionally once you have gotten your system more balanced. In fact as you get clearer, your body "talks" to you more and you go through a period where many things that you used to eat give you "symptoms" and become less tolerable and even less craved.
It's like you are "hearing" more clearly and the body is giving more messages, doing its best to keep you on the path to health.
I believe that the body is continually doing its best to keep you healthy and is continually healing and working hard to eliminate what is not good for you.
So if you help the body by giving it useful resources, then the body can do its job easier as it doesn't have as much "stuff" to eliminate or compensate for.
Life is made up of the consequences of the choices we have made, so as we get more conscious of those choices, we might as well choose what we know will work best for us, as best we can. I find that really empowering.
LW888
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"A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step" Lao-tzu
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