Wheat that's fattening and addicitve. Just what we need!

I have read and written quite a lot about the evil of wheat in the American diet specifically  in regard to many of today's chronic diseases.  However, always lurking in the back of my mind was the thought that wheat has been around for thousands of years so how could it alone be the root of our modern health problems. Whole "Wheat Berries" are high in Selenium and Magnesium.  Adequate Selenium regulates the thyroid, selenium can bind with heavy metals in the body thereby making them harmless, and finally viruses of many types are deactivated in the body with the proper levels of Selenium.  Adequate levels of Magnesium support the liver and gall bladder, Magnesium harmonizes mental and emotional imbalances, Magnesium strengthens the structures of the body - think bones, joints and muscles. Magnesium supports getting Calcium into the bones not soft tissue so if you're taking Calcium without Magnesium you could be doing more damage than good by putting Calcium in the soft tissue.

Yet with all the "wheat" we eat in the US we still have a huge problem with hypothyroidism which is on the rise,  problems with mental/emotional function -1 out of  5 U.S. adults took prescriptions for psychological disorders in 2010, and the U.S. has a very high rate of Osteoporosis. In fact, 70% of the American public is deficient in the mineral Magnesium. So with essential minerals found in Wheat Berries that most Americans are deficient in, it would seem we need to eat more wheat not less right?

Wrong! I link to an article below written by Dr. Mark Hyman that is definitely worth reading.  Dr Hyman explains that not surprisingly we no longer eat the wheat of our ancestors. In the early 1950's Agricultural scientists where working on ways to engineer wheat to grow longer during the season, be pest resistant, and grow thinker stronger stems.  This engineering of plants has produced a wheat that has low mineral content from a pest treated soil, high in starch and gluten content through thicker stalks, and abundantly available. 

Since we can no longer get the organically grown wheat of our ancestors I guess it's better to take Selenium and Magnesium whole food supplements and and skip all the wheat products. Leave it to us to engineer food out of our diets.      http://drhyman.com/three-hidden-ways-wheat-makes-you-fat-8425/