Whole grains have been touted as healthy as we've been told to eat several servings of whole grain foods each day to optimize health and gastorintestinal regularity.

But, could all that be hype? Just another attempt by big business and the corn industryto acquire your hard earned dollars and keep you dependant on Big Pharma for prescription drugs? Let's see Dr. Mercola take acloser look at this.

Hunters and gatherers derived most of their calories from about 100-200 different species of wild animal fruits and vegetables. But with the advent of agriculture man became dependent upon a few staple cereal foods, 3-5 domesticated meat species, and 15-20 other plant foods. Many populations got up to 80 percent of their calories from a single cereal staple.  

This was the turning point in human evolution. We abandoned the typical hunter-gatherer lifestyle, with its dependence on wild meat, fruits, vegetables, and nuts and took up dietary and activity patterns that were entirely new to us. We had evolved to adapt to the life of hunters and gatherers and now accepted a life that was incompatible with our adaptive qualities. The consequences were evident in a reduction in body size, from which we have only recently recovered, and in the appearance of diseases of sedentary and agricultural populations, such as cardiovascular disease, cancers, diabetes, high blood pressure, and bone diseases...