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(THREAD) Evidence that enriched refined grains promotes obesity. A major overlooked factor in the 1980s obesity epidemic. 
1) Livestock lose their appetite for refined foods unless they are enriched with B vitamins. Been known for 100 yrs mensjournal.com/health-fitness…
2) Was actually how Osborne & Mendel discovered B vitamins. No B vitamins, no appetite. The food industry used farming science against us
3) In other words, in order to sustain an appetite for refined foods, we must consume B vitamins. Otherwise we become anorexic
4) Food industry significantly increased food enrichment levels to coincide with the push for "enriched grains" w/ 1980 Dietary Guidelines
5) Food industry left a fingerprint at the scene of the crime. Note the B vitamin mix they put into refined grains. It sustains appetites
6) In 1920s, "Ironized Yeast" tablets provided B vitamins, and iron, to increase people's appetites and increase their weight
7) 1980s Dietary Guidelines didn't just push grains. It pushed ENRICHED grains and suggested they were the same as whole grains. Wasn't true
8) In 1921 Sir Robert McCarrison wrote that adding B vitamins to refined foods stimulates appetites for those foods. soilandhealth.org/wp-content/upl…
9) US/UK/CAN are the only developed nations that fortify all refined grains. Most European nations avoid or ban it. nytimes.com/2011/06/17/wor…
10) In non-enriched countries, real foods required to sustain appetite. In enriched countries, enriched junk foods will sustain appetites
11) B vitamins don't cause obesity. B vitamin enrichments allow people to eat lots of refined junk foods, as staples
12) 100 years of farming science shows deficient animals instinctively favor foods with more B vitamins. rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/royprs…
13) Today, a *single* slice of white bread has more of appetite-supporting B vitamins than a medium sweet potato
14) It's true that animals and humans can't taste vitamins. However, animals learn to favor enriched foods from the "beneficial experience"
15) Livestock need access to pasture to eat pure refined feeds. Enrichment obviates the need for pasture grazing mensjournal.com/health-fitness…
16) Gorillas in captivity get diseases of civilization—including obesity—from eating enriched feed. Cured by whole foods
17) Without the B vitamins, those gorillas would have lost their appetites for the refined feed
18) Epidemiology links obesity epidemics, in developed nations, to use of food enrichments and the timing of their increases. (Zhou et al)
19) Greenland 1956, enriched foods become an easy source of vitamins for Eskimo populations—it destroyed their ancient food traditions
20) Pima Indian obesity increased substantially after enriched foods appeared in trading posts, after the late 1950s. Replaced real foods
21) Evidence suggests grain lobbyists understood all the farming research and weaponized refined grains with enrichments
22) The decision to super-enrich refined grains was done by American Bakers Association lobbyists—against the advice of physicians
23) American Bakers Assoc still promotes enrichment as healthy & claims it reduces NTDs by 36%. Reality: Only a 0.015% real reduction
24) A high folic acid intake due to fortification may be harmful for more people than the practice is designed to help
25) And new studies suggest that folic acid fortification is ineffective. biox.stanford.edu/highlight/less…
26) And who is pushing us to eat enriched grains? It's the grain lobbyists! Led by the American Bakers Association americanbakers.org/2012/02/aba-ce…
27) The American Bakers Assoc *continues* to lobby the USDA to include enriched grains in our Dietary Guidelines. americanbakers.org/2012/02/aba-ce…
28) Today, whole-wheat flour accounts for only 6 percent of all flour in the USA. Americans are hooked on enriched grains.
(Sources) Read the full article: freetheanimal.com/2016/05/enrich…
(Sources2) Read how vitamin supplementation leads to human livestock obesity freetheanimal.com/2016/05/supple…
(Bonus) Whole wheat is not enriched, nor is organic white flour. Eat whole grains rather than refined grains.
(Bonus2) People blame refined sugar for obesity. However, B vitamins are still required to have an appetite for refined sugar.
(Bonus3) Beehive collapse disorder is related to bees eating an enriched & refined diet psmag.com/save-the-honey…
(Bonus4) Kings and wealthy individuals got their B vitamins from meat and turbid beer. Enabled them to eat unlimited refined foods
(Bonus5) Australians have lots of obesity but few enriched foods. High meat intake (rich in B vitamins) enables their junk food diets.
(Bonus6) Taubes' obese depression-era children were almost certainly supplemented w/ B vitamins (yeast cakes?). Otherwise no appetite.
(Bonus7) Loss of appetite was the main symptom from 19th century dyspepsia, caused from eating refined white flour and sugar.
(Bonus8) On average people ate between 1–2 LBS of bread PER DAY up until the Industrial Revolution. Very low obesity books.google.com/books?id=ystCA…
(Bonus9) You might suspect that few were sedentary pre-20th century. Not so. In fact, sedentary lifestyles led to LOSS of appetite
(Bonus10) Banting was one of the few to become obese back then. But he too needed B vitamins to pull it off.
(Bonus11) Real bread only has 4 ingredients: wheat, salt, water, yeast (or starter). freetheanimal.com/2015/08/wheat-…
(Bonus12) European countries, like the Netherlands, recommend plenty of whole grains, but have much less obesity than the US/CAN/UK
