Wheat Belly, William Davis, MD
Wheat Belly, William Davis, MD
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Wheat Belly
Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight, and Find Your Path Back to Health

Author: William Davis, MD

Narrator: Tom Weiner

Unabridged: 7 hr 33 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 08/30/2011


Synopsis

Includes a bonus with recipes and more! 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 problemsfrom 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 become heavier, less healthy, and more prone to diabetes than ever before. After putting over two thousand of his atrisk patients on a wheatfree regimen and seeing extraordinary results, cardiologist William Davis has come to the disturbing conclusion that it is not fat, sugar, or our sedentary lifestyle that is causing Americas obesity epidemicit is wheat. How this oncebenign grainnow genetically modified almost beyond recognition and found in almost every mealhas come to have such a profound and harmful effect on our collective wellbeing is one of the great untold health stories of our generation. Here, Dr. Davis exposes the truth about modernday 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 wheats 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 wheatfree diet, he presents a clearcut 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 lifechanging transformations in their health after waving goodbye to wheat, this is an illuminating look at a familiar food and an affirmative life plan for regaining health and losing unwanted pounds. To access the bonus PDF follow this link: http://www.blackstoneaudio.com/docs/WheatBelly_AppendixA_B_andmore.pdf

Reviews

Goodreads review by Benjamin on January 12, 2014

As the husband of a diagnosed celiac (not the trendy self-diagnosed kind, the objective and measurable autoimmune reaction to gluten protein kind), I gave this hot book a real chance. After all, we're living in a virtually wheat-free home already (I still eat wheat bread). Bottom line: It takes a de......more

Goodreads review by Ngaire on September 27, 2017

Look, I used to be the last person on the planet who would have considered giving up wheat. I thought people who gave up gluten were crazy (unless they had celiac disease, obviously). I knew that pasta and brown bread were healthy for me - I'd had it drummed into me since childhood. But since I was......more

Goodreads review by Erin on October 05, 2012

Let's be honest--I'm going to be in favor of this book because of my point of view. I'm supporting my own (research-free) thesis that wheat is bad for you. And this dude's an MD, he backs up his science with footnotes, the subject interests me, and I've had personal experience giving up wheat in my......more

Goodreads review by Tiana on August 07, 2012

Call it "The Carnivorous Squirrel Diet." I liked the book up until the last chapter. He outlines (perhaps in too much detail) reasonable, scientific evidence to support why a diet free from genetically modified wheat is better for you in every way. While he states that you should cut wheat altogethe......more

Goodreads review by Trish on February 05, 2017

I came across this book on someone’s Currently-Reading list, of which they said something like, “Thought I should know something about this phenomenon everyone is reporting, wheat belly.” Oh, all right, I thought halfheartedly, “Me, too.” I mean, maybe the fat epidemic is mostly caused by wheat. Why......more