Basis Quote by David Perlmutter

“Grains are a starvation food – they provide cheap calories without the vital nutrients of meats, fruits, and vegetables.”

— Abel James

There is not a single health-promoting substance present in grains that you can’t also get from vegetables and fruit.

— Melissa Hartwig

If people are working only rice and beans for much of their diet, it says something.

— Anthony Bourdain

It's a bunch of bull! If God, or nature, or whatever you want to call it didn't want you to mix carbohydrates, starches and…

— Jack LaLanne

“eating lots of processed grains has contributed to a host of chronic illnesses such as diabetes, obesity, and gluten sensitivity.”

— Deborah Kesten

“Nutrition science has usually put more of its energies into the idea that the problems it studies are the result of too much of…

— Michael Pollan

“Wheat, soy, grains and beans contain anti-nutrients that are impossible for our bodies to digest.”

— James Adler

“If we added up all of the special ‘avoidance’ diets, no one could eat anything.  Many people are ruining their health by avoiding too…

— Matt Stone

To provide optimal levels of protective micronutrients, a diet must be vegetable-based, not grain-based.

— Joel Fuhrman

“And just as agriculture has displaced species-dense communities with its monocrops, its diet has displaced the nutrient-dense foods that humans need, replacing them with…

— Lierre Keith

“The popular media and conventional wisdom, including the medical profession's traditional approach to nutrition, have created and continue to perpetuate this problem through inadequate,…

— Ron Hoggan

“...The real cause of hunger is a scarcity of justice, not a scarcity of food. Enough grain is squandered every day in raising American…

— John Robbins