Evidence that enriched refined grains promotes obesity (2017)

The full first tweet is “(THREAD) Evidence that enriched refined grains promotes obesity. A major overlooked factor in the 1980s obesity epidemic.” At the bottom of the thread are links to the author’s website, presumably with more information.

There are certainly other factors in the obesity epidemic — endocrine disruptors, fake foods, PUFA, etc — but maybe the fortification of flour is a major factor?

I posted the other day about my friend’s tragic experience with Arizona’s involuntary mental health industry [0]. Tl/dr: My friend is diagnosed as chronically disabled. The doctors think she must take anti-psychotics for the rest of her life. I have videos proving she was actually fine 2 weeks before she ran out of alcohol. After maybe ~3 years of forced tranquilizers (“anti-psychotics”), she figured out for herself that she’s a poor methylator who can’t turn the provitamin folic acid into something usable. She said using a methylated form of Vitamin B-9 (L-Methyfolate) was like flipping a switch from “depressed” to “not-depressed”. (This has been forgotten. Now they just keep her on the tranquilizers without the vitamin.)

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33310757 (some good responses in this thread) (edit: this comment referenced this tweet, but I couldn't find it at the time.)

My retweet [1] said, “I've made an effort to avoid fortified flour for 11+ years, to avoid excess iron. Didn't appreciate how problematic fortification is until I ran across this thread. White flour: sub-optimal Fortified white flour: tragic (poor methylators are harmed by folic acid) #ScienceMistake”

[1] https://twitter.com/JamesKnochel/status/1584795534182977537

Ask HN: Is fortified flour a #ScienceMistake ? If so, how can this be brought to Science’s attention?