The Definitive Guide to Grains

Published: Oct. 13, 2014, 11:59 p.m.

Mark expands the Primal Blueprint Podcast by recording select Mark's Daily Apple posts for your listening pleasure!

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Grains. Every day we\u2019re bombarded with them and their myriad of associations in American (and much of Western) culture: Wilford Brimley, Uncle Ben, the Sunbeam girl, the latest Wheaties athlete, a pastrami on rye, spaghetti dinners, buns for barbeque, corn on the cob, donuts, birthday cake, apple pie, amber waves of grain\u2026. Gee, am I missing anything? Of course. So much, in fact, that it could \u2013 and usually does \u2013 take up the majority of supermarket square footage. (Not to mention those government farm subsidies, but that\u2019s another post.) Yes, grains are solidly etched into our modern Western psyche \u2013 just not so much into our physiology.(These Mark's Daily Apple articles were written by Mark Sisson, and are narrated by Brock Armstrong)

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