Chapter 8 – The Food Pyramids

considered entirely separate species now and I have no evidence to back my hunch, I have to believe that our current, familiar, domestic rice started out in antiquity more similar to that Minnesota wild rice before it was developed as a farm crop thousands of years ago. At some point in history, before man began to plant and harvest grains, all rice was wild rice, by definition. We’ve made a lot of changes over the past few millennia, to the point that now the difference is dramatic.

Today, there are probably very few examples of ancient wheat except for the grains the archeologists have been able to rescue from the tombs of the ancient Egyptian pharaohs. Even then, wheat grain had already been “re-engineered” by selective breeding for centuries, if not millennia, to produce the most hardy strains that would yield the most abundant, large kernels and withstand long-term storage. Anytime a grain is bred for some sort of change of convenience for us, it undergoes other changes too that don’t always work in our favor, even if we’re not aware of it at the time.

Corn, another mainstay grain of the American diet, has been hybridized many, many times over the centuries to produce specialized strains, to make it less vulnerable to mechanical harvesting, shipping and marketing display. And despite all of the “benefits” we’ve been able to achieve with these deliberate changes, we’ve also changed some fundamental qualities we probably didn’t want to change along the way or didn’t even know that we were changing.

For instance, in my practice, I’ve been certified since 1998 to perform animal skeletal adjusting. Over the past few years, Tahya Aung Khin of Scottsdale, Arizona, has developed and marketed an amazing, grain-free food for dogs, called Real Animal Way (www.RealAnimalWay.com). Similar foods have statistically reduced vet bills by an average of 73%. Ever since he first put it on the market, pet owners have reported that the pet food apparently minimizes or eliminates joint pains in their dogs. This phenomenon is so prevalent with customers that I now question every canine patient’s owner about what they feed their dogs. The worst joint pain I see in the

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