New Study Vindicates William Davis: Modern Wheat is more Toxic than Ancient Varieties | Rosemary Cottage Clinic

New Study Vindicates William Davis: Modern Wheat is more Toxic than Ancient Varieties | Rosemary Cottage Clinic

Amazingly, a study published this month in the British Journal of Nutrition has
put Davis’ theory to the test, by giving twenty sufferers of irritable
bowel syndrome (IBS) either modern wheat products (bread, pasta,
biscuits and crackers etc) or identical products made from an
ancient variety. The results were clear-cut: whilst on the modern wheat
diet no improvement in symptoms occurred, but participants on the
ancient-wheat diet experienced a very significant decrease in symptoms,
including less abdominal pain, distension, bloating, tiredness and
improved quality of life. Also, at the end of the ancient wheat diet,
but not the modern wheat diet, multiple markers of inflammation were
reduced, including vascular endothelial growth factor – implicated in
cancer, rheumatoid arthritis and diabetic retinopathy.

- William Davis: High Five!

The strengths of this study were that it was a randomised,
double-blind crossover trial – the gold standard when trying to identify
cause, not just correlation. Also, the differences in subjective
assessment of symptoms between the two dietary phases were very
distinct, ranging from P<.004 to P<.0001. i.e. the probability
of these results being due random chance is as small as one in ten
thousand! (Drug efficacy only needs a P<.05 – which is just one in
twenty)