MY Answer....in this book #1

I  WAS  OVER-WEIGHT  BY  ABOUT  25  POUNDS  A  YEAR  OR  SO  BACK.  I  LOOKED  AT  THE  WAY  I  WAS  EATING  AND  I  MADE  THE  CHOICE  TO  JUST  ABOUT  CUT  ALL  WHEAT  PRODUCTS  FROM  MY  DIET.  I  HAD  ALREADY  CUT  SOME  THINGS  OUT  THAT  WERE  TYPICAL  TO  PUT  ON  THE  POUNDS  IF  YOUR  BODY  MELABOLISM  WAS  A  CERTAIN  WAY.  NOW  WHEAT  PRODUCTS  HAD  TO  GO.......AND  IT  WORKED.  WITHIN  3  MONTHS  I  HAD  LOST  25  POUNDS!!

I  DID  NOT  KNOW  THE  FULL  ANSWER  UNTIL  I  SPOTTED  THE  BOOK "WHEAT  BELLY"  AND  BOUGHT  IT.......WOW  WHAT  AN  EYE  OPENER  TO  THE  FACTS  OF  MODERN  WHEAT.  I  WILL  GIVE  YOU  A  LITTLE   AND  THEN  IF  YOU  DO  NOT  HAVE  THE  BOOK  YOU  CAN  GET  IT -  YOU  SHOULD  GET  IT,  YES  INDEED.

 

WHEAT BELLY

by William Davis, M.D.

ON THE BACK COVER:

DID YOU KNOW THAT EATING TWO SLICES OF WHOLE WHEAT BREAD CAN

INCREASE BLOOD SUGAR MORE THAN 2 TABLESPOONS OF PURE SUGAR CAN?

Wheat Belly is a provocative look at how eliminating

wheat-even so-called healthy whole grain wheat-from our diets is

the key to permanent weight loss and can offer relief from a

broad spectrum of health and digestive problems.

Drawing on decades of clinical studies and the extraordinary

results he has observed after putting thousands of his patients

on wheat-free regimens, Dr. William Davis makes a compelling case

against this ubiq uitous ingredient. A wheat-free diet has been

associated with significant benefits, including:

* Weight loss of 20, 30, even 50 pounds in the first few months

* Alleviation of metabolic syndrome and type 2 diabetes

* Recovery from intestinal woes, like ulcerative colitis and

celiac disease

* Marked improvement in overall cholesterol counts

* Improvement in bone density and reversal of osteopenia

* Cessation of skin conditions from psoriasis to oral ulcers to

hair loss

* Reduction of inflammation and rheumatoid arthritis pain

Readable, thought-provoking, and carefully researched, Wheat

Belly offers a new and vitally important perspective on the most

critical health concerns of our time.

INSIDE FRONT COVER:

A provocative look at how eliminating wheat from our diets can

help us lose weight, shrink unsightly bulges, and reverse a broad

spectrum of health problems.

Since the introduction of dietary guidelines in the 1970s calling

for reduced fat intake, a strange phenomenon has occurred: North

Americans have steadily and inexorably become heavier, less

healthy, and more prone to diabetes than ever before. After

putting more than 2,000 of his at-risk patients on a wheat-free

regimen and seeing extraordinary results, cardiologist William

Davis came to the disturbing conclusion that it is not fat, not

sugar, and not our sedentary lifestyle that is causing an obesity

epidemic-it is wheat.

In Wheat Belly, Davis exposes the truth about modern-day wheat,

deconstructing its historical role in the human diet. No longer

the sturdy staple our forebears ground into their daily bread,

today's wheat has been genetically altered to provide

processed-food manufacturers the greatest yield at the lowest

cost; consequently, this once-benign grain has been transformed

into a nutritionally bankrupt yet ubiquitous ingredient that

causes blood sugar to spike more rapidly t h an eating pure table

sugar and has addictive proper tics that send us on a roller

coaster of hunger, over eating, and fatigue. Dr. Davis sheds

light on wheat's connection to weight gain and fat buildup in all

the wrong places, as well as a host of adverse health conditions

from diabetes to heart disease to immunologic and neurological

disorders like celiac disease, rheumatoid arthritis, and

dementia. Finally, he presents a compelling argument for

eliminating wheat products from the diet entirely, with

strategies for making the transition both simple and permanent.

Informed by decades of clinical research and backed by case

studies of men and women who truly transformed their lives after

waving goodbye to wheat, Wheat Belly is an illuminating look at a

familiar food and a positive course of action to regain health

and lose unwanted pounds for good.

　

INTRODUCTION

FLIP THROUGH YOUR parents' or grandparents' family albums and

you're likely to be struck by how thin everyone looks. The women

probably wore size-four dresses and the men sported 32-inch

waists. Overweight was something measured only by a few pounds;

obesity rare. Overweight children? Almost never. Any 42-inch

waists? Not here. Two-hundred-pound teenagers? Certainly not.

Why were the June Cleavers of the fifties and sixties, the

stayat-home housewives as well as other people of that era, so

much skinnier than the modern people we see at the beach, mall,

or in our own mirrors? While women of that era typically weighed

in at 110 or 115 pounds, men at 150 or 165 pounds, today we carry

50, 75, even 200 pounds more.

The women of that world didn't exercise much at all. (It was

considered unseemly, after all, like having impure thoughts at

church) How many times did you see your mom put on her jog ging

shoes to go out for a three-mile run? Exercise for my mother was

vacuuming the stairs. Nowadays I go outdoors on any nice day and

see dozens of women jogging, riding their bicycles, power

walking-things we'd virtually never see 40 or 50 years ago. And

yet, we're getting fatter and fatter every year.

My wife is a triathlete and triathlon instructor, so I observe a

few of these extreme exercise events every year. Triathletes

train intensively for months to years before a race to complete a

1- to 2 and 1/2-mile open water swim, a 56- to 112-mile bike

ride, and finish with a 13- to 26-mile run. Just completing a

race is a feat in itself, since the event requires up to several

thousand calories and spectacular endurance. The majority of

triathletes adhere to fairly healthy eating habits.

Then why are a third of these dedicated men and women athletes

overweight? I give them even greater credit for having to cart

around the extra thirty, forty, or fifty pounds. But, given their

extreme level of sustained activity and demanding training

schedule, how can they still be overweight?

If we follow conventional logic, overweight triathletes need to

exercise more or eat less to lose weight. I believe that is a

downright ridiculous notion. I am going to argue that the problem

with the diet and health of most Americans is not fat, not sugar,

not the rise of the Internet and the demise of the agrarian

lifestyle. It's wheator what we are being sold that is called

"wheat."

You will see that what we are eating, cleverly disguised as a

bran muffin or onion ciabatta, is not really wheat at all but the

transformed product of genetic research conducted during the

latter half of the twentieth century. Modern wheat is no more

real wheat than a chimpanzee is an approximation of a human.

While our hairy primate relatives share 99 percent of all genes

found in humans, with longer arms, full body hair, and lesser

capacity to win the jackpot at Jeopardy, I trust you can readily

tell the difference that that I percent makes. Compared to its

ancestor of only forty years ago, modern wheat isn't even that

close.

I believe that the increased consumption of grains-or more

accurately, the increased consumption of this genetically altered

thing called modern wheat-explains the contrast between slender,

sedentary people of the fifties and overweight

twenty-first-century people, triathletes included.

I recognize that declaring wheat a malicious food is like

declaring that Ronald Reagan was a Communist. It may seem absurd,

even unpatriotic, to demote an iconic dietary staple to the

status of public health hazard. But I will make the case that the

world's most popular grain is also the world's most destructive

dietary ingredient.

Documented peculiar effects of wheat on humans include appetite

stimulation, exposure to brain-active exorphins (the counterpart

of internally derived endorphins), exaggerated blood sugar surges

that trigger cycles of satiety alternating with heightened

appetite, the process of glycation that underlies disease and

aging, inflammatory and pH effects that erode cartilage and

damage bone, and activation of disordered immune responses. A

complex range of diseases results from consumption of wheat, from

celiac disease-the devastating intestinal disease that develops

from exposure to wheat gluten-to an assortment of neurological

disorders, diabetes, heart disease, arthritis, curious rashes,

and the paralyzing delusions of schizophrenia.

If this thing called wheat is such a problem, then removing it

should yield outsize and unexpected benefits. Indeed, that is the

case. As a cardiologist who sees and treats thousands of patients

at risk for heart disease, diabetes, and the myriad destructive

effects of obesity, I have personally observed protuberant,

flop-over-thebelt belly fat vanish when my patients eliminated

wheat from their diets, with typical weight loss totaling 20, 30,

or 50 pounds just within the first few months. Rapid and

effortless weight loss is usually followed by health benefits

that continue to amaze me even today after having witnessed this

phenomenon thousands of times.

I've seen dramatic turnarounds in health, such as the

thirtyeight-year-old woman with ulcerative colitis facing colon

removal who was cured with wheat elimination-colon intact. Or the

twenty-six-year-old man, incapacitated and barely able to walk

because of joint pain, who experienced complete relief and walked

and ran freely again after taking wheat off the menu.

Extraordinary as these results may sound, there is ample

scientific research to implicate wheat as the root cause of these

conditions-and to indicate that removal of wheat can reduce or

relieve symptoms entirely. You will see that we have unwittingly

traded convenience, abundance, and low cost for health with wheat

bellies, bulging thighs, and double chins to prove it. Many of

the arguments I make in the chapters that follow have been proven

in scientific studies that are available for one and all to

review. Incredibly, many of the lessons I've learned were

demonstrated in clinical studies decades ago, but somehow never

percolated to the surface of medical or public consciousness.

I've simply put two and two together to come up with some

conclusions that you may find startling.

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