Strike another blow for moderation!  Cutting out ALL grains is not something I would ever recommend, it being hard for me on an emotional level to believe that what was created could be bad if eaten in its original form (more or less!), and  on a professional level to accept the exclusion from the diet altogether of such rich sources of many necessary nutrients.

"Individuals who incorporate whole-grain foods into their diets may prevent or reduce their risk of developing the metabolic syndrome, a clustering of risk factors that often precedes type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease," this is the conclusion of a study by Nicola McKeown and others at Tuft University, entitled Carbohydrate Nutrition, Insulin Resistance, and the Prevalence of the Metabolic Syndrome in the Framingham Offspring Cohort

Read the study here.