William MD - Wheat Belly

COPYRIGHT CONTENTS Cover Title Page Copyright Dedication Foreword Introduction PART ONE WHEAT: THE UN HEALTHY WHOLE GRAIN Chapter 1 What Belly? Chapter 2 Not Your Gran’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 Coeliac Disease Chapter 7 Diabetes Nation: Wheat and Insulin Resistance Chapter 8 Dropping Acid: Wheat as the Great pH Disrupter Chapter 9 Cataracts, Wrinkles and Dowager’s Humps: Wheat and the Ageing 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 Appendix B Healthy Wheat Belly-Shrinking Recipes List of Searchable Terms Acknowledgements References About the Publisher

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First published in the USA by Rodale Inc. 2011

First published in the UK by HarperThorsons 2014

This edition 2015

© 2011, 2014 by William Davis, MD

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Source ISBN: 9780007568130

Ebook Edition © FEBRUARY 2015 ISBN: 9780007568147

Version: 2015-02-03

For Dawn, Bill, Lauren and Jacob, my companions on this wheat-free journey

In order to protect the privacy of patients, some names and personal details have been changed.

CONTENTS

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication For Dawn, Bill, Lauren and Jacob, my companions on this wheat-free journey In order to protect the privacy of patients, some names and personal details have been changed.

Foreword

Introduction

PART ONE WHEAT: THE UN HEALTHY WHOLE GRAIN

Chapter 1 What Belly?

Chapter 2 Not Your Gran’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 Coeliac Disease

Chapter 7 Diabetes Nation: Wheat and Insulin Resistance

Chapter 8 Dropping Acid: Wheat as the Great pH Disrupter

Chapter 9 Cataracts, Wrinkles and Dowager’s Humps: Wheat and the Ageing 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

Appendix B Healthy Wheat Belly-Shrinking Recipes

List of Searchable Terms

Acknowledgements

References

About the Publisher

FOREWORD TO THE PAPERBACK EDITION CONTENTS Cover Title Page Copyright Dedication For Dawn, Bill, Lauren and Jacob, my companions on this wheat-free journey In order to protect the privacy of patients, some names and personal details have been changed. Foreword Introduction PART ONE WHEAT: THE UN HEALTHY WHOLE GRAIN Chapter 1 What Belly? Chapter 2 Not Your Gran’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 Coeliac Disease Chapter 7 Diabetes Nation: Wheat and Insulin Resistance Chapter 8 Dropping Acid: Wheat as the Great pH Disrupter Chapter 9 Cataracts, Wrinkles and Dowager’s Humps: Wheat and the Ageing 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 Appendix B Healthy Wheat Belly-Shrinking Recipes List of Searchable Terms Acknowledgements References About the Publisher

WHEAT BELLY IS not what it used to be.

In the three years since the original Wheat Belly was published in the US, something astounding and wonderful has happened. What began as an experience in helping people reduce blood sugars, tame inflammation and regain control over appetite has evolved into a nationwide experience of lives transformed on an unprecedented scale. The few thousand people who understood this message in 2011 has now ballooned to the millions, and they are experiencing effortless weight loss and turnarounds in health across a whole spectrum of conditions.

Within weeks of its initial release, I was flooded with stories from people who, for the first time in years, finally understood why they had struggled with health, weight, appetite and pain – despite doing everything ‘right’. A man named Lucas sent a comment saying that he had tried with little success to get rid of his belly despite what he thought was a healthy diet and active lifestyle. ‘I’ve tried raw, vegan, low-carb, low-fat – and none of them had much effect and all left me with food cravings that never went away. In the month since I started Wheat Belly , I’ve lost 12 pounds,’ said Lucas. ‘The most remarkable thing for me, though – and I wasn’t really expecting it – is that after the first week of being completely grainfree, I have not had a single headache of any kind, and I have been a migraine sufferer since my teens.’