Chapter 8 – The Food Pyramids

dogs is consistently when their owners feed them foods that are high in grain content, especially wheat and corn. Typically, when they change their dogs’ foods to a grain-free diet, the joint pain reduces faster and more significantly than if I were doing skeletal adjusting alone.

So I’ve had the opportunity to see first-hand the destructive, painful effects that grains have on mammalian joints. Being mammals ourselves, and omnivores like dogs are, I must assume that these grains can have similar effects on our own joints.

When we take the dogs off of all dog foods containing grains,including rice, their arthritic joints get amazingly better – often to the extent that they need no further intervention in terms of skeletal adjusting. Their skin gets healthy, their fur gets shiny, their muscle mass increases, their body fat decreases and their breath freshens, just to name a few of the health benefits they enjoy. We’ve had great results with controlling blood sugar in diabetic dogs on this dog food too! I believe that grains have harmful effects on human joints, skin, hair and connective tissue as well, even if their effect may be less intense. And being high-carbohydrate foods, we know that they have detrimental effects on type II diabetes.

Therefore, the first objection I have to the grains and cereals portion of the traditional Food Pyramid is the effects they can have on our overall health. Being the sticklers Linda and I are for experimentation and noting results, we’ve worked with this theory to see how it affects our own health. Linda, for example, before she eliminated grains from her diet completely, discovered that she could stop eating wheat alone and drop 14 pounds in two weeks. Over a period of years, she did this several times with exactly the same result – 14 pounds in two weeks. (You might want to experiment with this yourself.)

Additionally, she had assumed for many years that eating meat caused her knees to become inflamed (arthritic). However, she eventually discovered that the most direct relationship between her knee pain and her diet was in relationship to eating grains, especially

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