Quote Originally Posted by comma View Post
You can cut out lots of things that don't have a lot of nutritional value. It just so happens that consuming wheat products is a convenient way to absorb calories, i.e., stay alive. You could eat a 16oz steak and a couple pieces of bread and get nutrients and calories to last you a while, or you could just eat a 24oz steak, trout out about half of the nutrients, end up with very few calories, and need to eat more steak sooner.
I don't want to derail this thread much more with paleo diet specific talk, but this is incorrect. Yeah, wheat is an excellent way to consume a lot of calories as quickly as possible. But those are calories that 99% of the population doesn't need. It's also a great way to stimulate your appetite and cause blood sugar spikes which would actually make you hungry sooner after eating the steak with a couple of pieces of bread than if you just had a bigger steak. It'd also trigger fat storage for the majority of people so your body can deal with the excess glucose and not die.

Seriously, unless you're Michael Phelps and need to eat 10,000 calories a day because you train so god damn much (and even then I'm not sold since there are a lot of people who hit really high performance levels in Crossfit on Paleo alone), there's no benefit to eating bread. None whatsoever. And for a lot of people it's actively harming them in one way or another.

Doesn't mean they can't eat it. It's their choice, but let's not pretend is something it's not. It's just about as bad as eating anything that's sugar filled frankly. Possibly even worse since a lot of people are more sensitive to gluten than they realize. For the most part sugar just makes people fat. But wheat gluten can do things that are more smurfed up on top of that.