The following Mark's Daily Apple article was written by Marksissons and is narrated by Brock Armstrong.

Why grains are unhealthy.

I find that grain bashing makes for a tasty but ultimately unsatisfying meal.

You all know how much I love doing it, though, but no matter how often I sit down to dine on this stuff,

and I've done it with great gusto in the past, I always leave the table feeling like I've left something behind.

Like maybe I wasn't harsh enough about the danger of gluten, or I failed to really convey just

how much I hated lectins. If I didn't know better, I'd think that the mere mention of grains

was eliciting a crazy insulin-ask response and throwing my satiety hormones all out of whack.

I was filling up on anti-grain talk, but I just couldn't fill that void for long.

Well, I've got the hunger today, and this time I aim to stuff myself to the point of perpetual

sickness.

I don't ever want to have to look at another anti-grain argument again.

Yeah, right.

If things get a little disjointed, or if I descend into bullet points and sentence fragments,

it's only because the hunger has taken over and I've

decided to dispense with the pleasantries in order to lay it all out at once. So please, bear with me.

Apart from maintaining social conventions in certain situations and obtaining cheap sugar calories,

there is absolutely no reason to eat

grains. Believe me, I've searched far and wide and asked everyone I can for just one good reason

to eat cereal grains, but no one can do it. They may have answers, but they just

aren't good enough. For fun, though, let's take a look at some of the assertions.

You need fiber! Okay, for one, no, I don't. If you're referring to its oft-touted ability to move things along in the inner sanctum, fiber has some unintended consequences.

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