A reader sent me a paper about a study in which researchers got people to eat less by adding pureed vegetables to foods.  (Maybe they didnt like the puree.) That wasnt the interesting part.  This was a breakdown of where the average American adults calories come from, according to the USDAs data.

I can almost hear the members of the Dietary Guidelines Committee tsk-tsking about the 638.6 calories of added fats and oils and the 468.8 calories of added sugars and of course Id agree about the sugar, which they now recommend only in moderation.  (How about none?  Is that too extreme?)

But look at the calories from grains 617 calories.  In America, grains mostly means wheat.  So the average adult is getting around 1,000 calories per day from sugar and wheat.

I recently finished reading an advance copy of Dr. William Davis soon-to-be-released (and terrific) book Wheat Belly. I already knew wheat is bad news, but until I read his book, I didnt realize how dramatically the wheat we consume today differs from the wheat people consumed just 100 years ago.

Ill write a full review of the book next week.  Until then, Ill just say that 1,000 calories per day of sugar and wheat is a prescription for lousy health and runaway health-care costs in other words, pretty much what were facing today.

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