Wheat Belly: Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight and Find Your Path Back to Health

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Harper Collins, Jun 19, 2014 - Health & Fitness - 320 pages

Renowned cardiologist William Davis explains how eliminating wheat from our diets can prevent fat storage, shrink unsightly bulges and reverse myriad health problems.

Every day we eat food products made of wheat. As a result millions of people experience some form of adverse health effect, ranging from minor rashes and high blood sugar to the unattractive stomach bulges that preventative cardiologist William Davis calls ‘wheat bellies’. According to Davis, that fat has nothing to do with gluttony, sloth or too much butter: it’s down to the whole grain food products so many people eat for breakfast, lunch and dinner.

After witnessing over 2,000 patients regain their health after giving up wheat, Davis reached the disturbing conclusion that wheat is the single largest contributor to the nationwide obesity epidemic - and its elimination is key to dramatic weight loss and optimal health.

In Wheat Belly Davis exposes the harmful effects of what is actually a product of genetic tinkering being sold to the public as ‘wheat’ and provides readers with a user-friendly, step-by-step plan to navigate a new, wheat-free lifestyle. Benefits include: substantial weight loss, correction of cholesterol abnormalities, relief from arthritis, mood benefits and prevention of heart disease.

Informed by cutting-edge science and nutrition, and numerous case studies, Wheat Belly is an illuminating look at what is truly making us sick.

 

Contents

Cover
WHAT BELLY?
THE CREATION OF MODERN
HEY MAN WANNA BUY SOME EXORPHINS? THE ADDICTIVE
THE WHEATOBESITY
HELLO INTESTINE ITS ME WHEAT WHEAT AND CELIAC
AND THE AGING PROCESS
WHEAT
LIFE WITHOUT WHEAT GETS EVEN BETTER
MR AND MRS WHEAT BELLY
WHEAT BELLYSHRINKING RECIPES
EPILOGUE
APPENDIX A Looking for Wheat in All the Wrong Places
APPENDIX B A Beginners Guide to Fermentation
References
Index

CREATE A HEALTHY DELICIOUS WHEAT
Acknowledgments

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About the author (2014)

Dr. William Davis MD is a preventative cardiologist whose unique approach to diet allows him to advocate reversal, not just prevention, of heart disease.

He advocates a lifestyle in which all foods made from wheat are removed.

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