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Doctors Warned About Flour 135 Years Ago… Why Did We Ignore It?

What if the warning about refined flour and weight gain didn’t start with keto… or carnivore… but with a doctor over 135 years ago? In this episode of Hey Sister Girl, Gie Brown and Robyn Herron (Carnivorous Grandma) explore a fascinating historical book called Foods for the Fat: The Scientific Cure of Corpulency, written in the late 1800s. In that book, the doctor warned that refined flour and carbohydrates could contribute to weight gain and metabolic illness. So the question we ask in this episode is simple but powerful: If doctors were warning about this over a century ago… why did we move away from that knowledge? Together we discuss: • How hospital rounds work in modern medicine • Why the medical system often treats disease after it appears • The difference between treating sym…