Its author, David Heber, M.D., Ph.D., wrote …

“There is a tradition that colors our diets beige. Discovered in the Fertile Crescent, beige grains such as wheat provided a reliable source of calories – but at a price. Egyptians ate a beige, grain-based diet in ancient times, and when Egyptian mummies were unearthed they demonstrated remarkable evidence of arthritis, diabetes, and cancer. Early farmers were also shorter than hunter-gatherers, due to the nutritional deficiencies of their grain-based diet compared to the colorful diversity of the hunter-gatherer’s diet. During the Roman Empire grains were exported from Egypt to Rome to be fed to the lower classes to keep them from rioting. Are fast foods playing a similar role in our modern society? We have a grain-based diet that includes corn oil, corn sugar, and corn-fed beef, all of which are inexpensive and available twenty-four hours a day. Our pets eat a grain-based diet and suffer from cancer, diabetes, and other diseases of man. Even our laboratory rats get a beige-pelleted chow diet and suffer from a high rate of obesity and spontaneous tumors as they age.”