AUDIOBOOK
Wheat Belly
Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight, and Find Your Path Back to Health
William Davis, M. D.5
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About
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-from acne to diabetes and serious digestive disorders.
Since the introduction of dietary guidelines calling for reduced fat intake in the 1970s, a strange phenomenon has occurred: Americans have steadily, inexorably become heavier, less healthy, and more prone to diabetes than ever before. After putting more than two thousand of his at-risk patients on a wheat-free regimen and seeing extraordinary results, cardiologist William Davis has come to the disturbing conclusion that it is not fat, not sugar, not our sedentary lifestyle that is causing America's obesity epidemic-it is wheat. How this once-benign grain-now genetically modified almost beyond recognition and found in virtually every course of every meal-has come to have such a profound and deleterious effect on our collective well-being is one of the great untold health stories of our generation.
In Wheat Belly, Dr. Davis exposes the truth about modern-day wheat, deconstructing its historical role in the human diet and the agricultural evolutions that have created a hybrid grain that has a greater impact on blood sugar levels than pure cane sugar and many of the addictive characteristics of a narcotic. He sheds light on wheat's connection to weight gain as well as to a host of other adverse effects from diabetes to heart disease to immunologic and neurologic disorders like celiac disease, rheumatoid arthritis, and dementia. Finally, to help listeners dependent on wheat products make the move to a wheat-free diet, he presents a clear-cut action plan packed with food and lifestyle tips, meal plans, and recipes.
Informed by decades of clinical research and backed by case studies of men and women who have experienced life-changing transformations in their health after waving goodbye to wheat, Wheat Belly is an illuminating look at a familiar food as well as an affirmative life plan for regaining health and losing unwanted pounds. Introduction
It's Not Your Fault
Part One Wheat: The Unhealthy Whole Grain: Chapter 1 What Belly?
Chapter 2 Not Your Grandma's Muffins: The Creation of Modern Wheat
Chapter 3 Wheat Deconstructed
Part Two Wheat and its Head-To-Toe Destruction of Health: Chapter 4 Hey, Man, Wanna Buy Some Exorphins?: The Addictive Properties of Wheat
Chapter 5 Your Wheat Belly Is Showing: The Wheat Obesity Connection
Chapter 6 Hello, Intestine. It's Me, Wheat: Wheat and Celiac Disease
Chapter 7 Diabetes Nation: Wheat and Insulin Resistance
Chapter 8 Dropping Acid: Wheat as the Great pH Disruptor
Chapter 9 Cataracts, Wrinkles, and Dowager's Humps: Wheat and the Aging Process
Chapter 10 My Particles Are Bigger Than Yours: Wheat and Heart Disease
Chapter 11 It's All in Your Head: Wheat and the Brain
Chapter 12 Bagel Face: Wheat's Destructive Effect on the Skin
Part Three Say Goodbye to Wheat: Chapter 13 Goodbye Wheat: Create a Healthy, Delicious Wheat Free Life
Epilogue
Appendix A Looking for Wheat in All the Wrong Places
Wheat Containing Products
"Detailed and ultimately therapeutic, [Davis'] Wheat Belly might be our best bet yet for real belt-tightening."
"Fascinating, compelling, and more than a little
entertaining, Wheat Belly may be the
most important health book of the year."
Since the introduction of dietary guidelines calling for reduced fat intake in the 1970s, a strange phenomenon has occurred: Americans have steadily, inexorably become heavier, less healthy, and more prone to diabetes than ever before. After putting more than two thousand of his at-risk patients on a wheat-free regimen and seeing extraordinary results, cardiologist William Davis has come to the disturbing conclusion that it is not fat, not sugar, not our sedentary lifestyle that is causing America's obesity epidemic-it is wheat. How this once-benign grain-now genetically modified almost beyond recognition and found in virtually every course of every meal-has come to have such a profound and deleterious effect on our collective well-being is one of the great untold health stories of our generation.
In Wheat Belly, Dr. Davis exposes the truth about modern-day wheat, deconstructing its historical role in the human diet and the agricultural evolutions that have created a hybrid grain that has a greater impact on blood sugar levels than pure cane sugar and many of the addictive characteristics of a narcotic. He sheds light on wheat's connection to weight gain as well as to a host of other adverse effects from diabetes to heart disease to immunologic and neurologic disorders like celiac disease, rheumatoid arthritis, and dementia. Finally, to help listeners dependent on wheat products make the move to a wheat-free diet, he presents a clear-cut action plan packed with food and lifestyle tips, meal plans, and recipes.
Informed by decades of clinical research and backed by case studies of men and women who have experienced life-changing transformations in their health after waving goodbye to wheat, Wheat Belly is an illuminating look at a familiar food as well as an affirmative life plan for regaining health and losing unwanted pounds. Introduction
It's Not Your Fault
Part One Wheat: The Unhealthy Whole Grain: Chapter 1 What Belly?
Chapter 2 Not Your Grandma's Muffins: The Creation of Modern Wheat
Chapter 3 Wheat Deconstructed
Part Two Wheat and its Head-To-Toe Destruction of Health: Chapter 4 Hey, Man, Wanna Buy Some Exorphins?: The Addictive Properties of Wheat
Chapter 5 Your Wheat Belly Is Showing: The Wheat Obesity Connection
Chapter 6 Hello, Intestine. It's Me, Wheat: Wheat and Celiac Disease
Chapter 7 Diabetes Nation: Wheat and Insulin Resistance
Chapter 8 Dropping Acid: Wheat as the Great pH Disruptor
Chapter 9 Cataracts, Wrinkles, and Dowager's Humps: Wheat and the Aging Process
Chapter 10 My Particles Are Bigger Than Yours: Wheat and Heart Disease
Chapter 11 It's All in Your Head: Wheat and the Brain
Chapter 12 Bagel Face: Wheat's Destructive Effect on the Skin
Part Three Say Goodbye to Wheat: Chapter 13 Goodbye Wheat: Create a Healthy, Delicious Wheat Free Life
Epilogue
Appendix A Looking for Wheat in All the Wrong Places
Wheat Containing Products
"Detailed and ultimately therapeutic, [Davis'] Wheat Belly might be our best bet yet for real belt-tightening."
"Fascinating, compelling, and more than a little
entertaining, Wheat Belly may be the
most important health book of the year."