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ОглавлениеHealth, Weight and Life the Wheat Belly Way
Let’s begin by surveying the wheat landscape. We find that it is no longer a field of beautiful ‘amber waves of grain’, but a field of something different. It is also a battleground of obesity, diabetes and legions of people who have succumbed to its effects.
We begin the discussion on modern wheat in three parts.
Frankengrain
Agricultural scientists have stitched the genetics of this thing together, concocted from extensive, sometimes bizarre experiments to increase yield-per-acre of wheat.
How has it changed? Just as the Frankenstein monster, the creature created with body parts woven together in a laboratory, terrorized the countryside, so this Frankengrain has worked its way onto your kitchen table, doing its dirty deeds on your health. This gets a bit complicated, but you will discover that the deeper we dig, the worse it gets. You will gain an understanding of just how far off course this thing has been taken from its natural state.
Why does my stomach hurt? And why do my joints ache, and my bowels rumble, and my feet swell and my. . .?
It’s not wheat. At least it’s not the wheat of 1950, and certainly not the wheat of centuries past. It’s no more wheat than rapper Snoop Dogg is Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
This creation of the genetics laboratory is different, altered in fundamental ways that increase appetite, ignite inflammation, grow visceral fat, skyrocket blood sugar, destroy intestinal and joint health and wreak a long list of other havoc on health and metabolism.
Welcome to the Wonderful State of Wheatlessness
If consuming modern wheat makes us fat and destroys our health, then removing it should undo the entire mess . . . and it does!
Remove sugar and you lose a few pounds and blood sugar trends down. Remove wheat and joints feel better, acid reflux goes away, rashes disappear, mental ‘fog’ disappears, energy increases, sleep is deeper, food obsessions are gone, asthma improves or disappears, leg swelling shrinks – oh, and you lose a few pounds and blood sugar trends down. Nothing – nothing – matches the health impact of losing the wheat, the ‘healthy whole grains’, in your diet.
We go one step further: If you eliminate wheat, health and weight are not necessarily ideal if you continue to consume soft drinks, gumdrops and their dietary equivalents. So we also discuss why limiting non-wheat carbohydrates is important, too, especially if you are trying to lose weight.
We then tackle the day-to-day particulars in . . .
Assembling Your Wheat Belly Kitchen
Here we discuss everything from what to banish from your kitchen to what wheat-free flours to choose to re-create cupcakes, biscuits and cheesecake. Life is good after saying goodbye to wheat! You are healthier, more energetic and more slender – while indulging in delicious brownies and pizza.
Okay, let’s get started and kiss your sorry wheat-consuming butt goodbye!
