Physical Intelligence - Day 35

The main problem I am confronting on this particular food war is that I grew up on cereals because my dad worked for a cereal company and consumed a lot of wheat product.  The claims are that genetically modified wheat is what is dangerous, and so are these claims contributing to any increases and if so does modified wheat have anything to do with this?

Type 2 Diabetes - Increase since 1970 :

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Top 2 Killers - Cancer & Heart Disease :

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I know statisticians are not afraid to say correlation is not causation, and so how do I learn from the Food Wars if I am also using anecdotal evidence rather than in a scientific way.  If I apply an evidence based way of life, how do I overcome the trust issue, because bad science includes researchers who will provide supporting "evidence" to a powerful group.  The conflicting research on how a particular food type is either good or bad for you is jarring, and a minefield.

This is a long way of stating that I availed myself today of the 2nd S'mores box and once opened piled through a 1/3rd of the Graham crackers which are made of enriched wheat flour.  The current meme I have been exposed to is to eat less flour and sugar to lose weight in a healthy way, reduce inflammation and create positive energy.  All of this based on TV doctors selling their books and videos. 

For sure the only way I know whether there is truth in the matter is to try cutting it out for 3 weeks and see what it does and whether there is any contribution to my belly being something called "wheat belly".  The sugar documentaries are more compelling and one aspect of sugar I find fascinating is processed refined sugar and especially the concerns about corn syrup/liquid sugar.  That particular concern was an intriguing demonstration of the chemistry effect in our bodies.  I am however willing to try to for a few weeks though I fear I may be buying belief. The latest thing I came across which has served to scramble my non-scientific nutritional knowledge was a late night PBS feature to raise money for PBS and at the same time sell books and video from another "Doctor" this time Dr. Mark Hyman.  His eat fat to get fit is nearly as intriguing as the "Wheat Belly" message.  Hyman is someone Bill Clinton trusts in his recent weight loss, and he did lose weight, yet there is a skeptics who offer compelling rebuttals, that is if we can find those when the search offers more of what Dr Hyman is selling.

Where there is special interest and someone making a lot of money for giving health advice, would that not be the job of governments?  In electing Trump we know what people think of trusting government and in that very trust to elect someone who will shake things up, the results so far have been more favorable to special interest rather than less, especially the top 1%.  What I don't need to dispute is the idea that there are healthy foods, so at least I can learn about them and if some of them are healthy fats, so much the better :