Dr Davis - Wheat Belly Total Health - The effortless grain-free health and weight-loss plan

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To all the readers who have the boldness, courage and conviction to rebel against conventional dietary advice and discover what real nutrition can do for human health

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication To all the readers who have the boldness, courage and conviction to rebel against conventional dietary advice and discover what real nutrition can do for human health

Introduction

Part I: No Grain is a Good Grain: Grazed, Grass-Fed and Fattened

Chapter 1 Liberate Your Inner Cow: Life Ungrained

Chapter 2 Let Them Eat Grass

Chapter 3 The Reign of Grain

Chapter 4 Your Bowels Have Been Fouled: Intestinal Indignities from Grains

Chapter 5 Grains, Brains and Chest Pains

Part II: Living Grainlessly: Restoring the Natural State of Human Life

Chapter 6 Grainless Life: Beginnings

Chapter 7 Grainless Living Day-to-Day

Part III: Be a Grainless Overachiever: The Next Steps to Reclaiming Grain-Free Total Health

Chapter 8 Correct Nutritional Deficiencies Caused by Grains

Chapter 9 Full Recovery from Post-Traumatic Grain Gut Syndrome

Chapter 10 Grainless Metabolic Mastery: Regain Control over Blood Sugar, Cholesterol, Bone Health and Inflammation

Chapter 11 The Annoyed Thyroid: Booby Trap for Weight and Health

Chapter 12 Endocrine Disruption: Trouble in the Gland Scheme of Things

Chapter 13 End the Self-Defeat: Recovering from Autoimmunity

Chapter 14 What If the Weight Doesn’t Come Off?

Chapter 15 Clearer, Smarter, Faster: Grain-Free Performance

Epilogue

Appendix A Recipes for Total Health

Appendix B Grain Pain: Watch Out for Hidden Sources of Grains

Appendix C A Grain-Free Shopping List

Appendix D Resources

Endnotes

List of Searchable Terms

Acknowledgements

Other Books by William Davis

About the Publisher

Introduction Contents Cover Title Page Copyright Dedication To all the readers who have the boldness, courage and conviction to rebel against conventional dietary advice and discover what real nutrition can do for human health Introduction Part I: No Grain is a Good Grain: Grazed, Grass-Fed and Fattened Chapter 1 Liberate Your Inner Cow: Life Ungrained Chapter 2 Let Them Eat Grass Chapter 3 The Reign of Grain Chapter 4 Your Bowels Have Been Fouled: Intestinal Indignities from Grains Chapter 5 Grains, Brains and Chest Pains Part II: Living Grainlessly: Restoring the Natural State of Human Life Chapter 6 Grainless Life: Beginnings Chapter 7 Grainless Living Day-to-Day Part III: Be a Grainless Overachiever: The Next Steps to Reclaiming Grain-Free Total Health Chapter 8 Correct Nutritional Deficiencies Caused by Grains Chapter 9 Full Recovery from Post-Traumatic Grain Gut Syndrome Chapter 10 Grainless Metabolic Mastery: Regain Control over Blood Sugar, Cholesterol, Bone Health and Inflammation Chapter 11 The Annoyed Thyroid: Booby Trap for Weight and Health Chapter 12 Endocrine Disruption: Trouble in the Gland Scheme of Things Chapter 13 End the Self-Defeat: Recovering from Autoimmunity Chapter 14 What If the Weight Doesn’t Come Off? Chapter 15 Clearer, Smarter, Faster: Grain-Free Performance Epilogue Appendix A Recipes for Total Health Appendix B Grain Pain: Watch Out for Hidden Sources of Grains Appendix C A Grain-Free Shopping List Appendix D Resources Endnotes List of Searchable Terms Acknowledgements Other Books by William Davis About the Publisher

You’ve been grained.

Beaten, demoralized, discouraged, your life and health have been bankrupted by ‘healthy whole grains’. The worst of the bunch is modern wheat: the Judas of dietary ‘wisdom’, despot of the breakfast bowl, tyrant of the bakery cabinet, the semi-dwarf darling of agribusiness. Your eyes were sprouting cataracts, your arteries were stiffening, your skin was wrinkling and plagued with rashes, your joints were sore and arthritic, your organs were inflamed, your belly fat was expanding, your blood sugar was climbing and man breasts may even have been sprouting. Your mind was clouded by fog, your medication list was growing and your schedule was fouled by mad scrambles for the nearest bathroom – all while you were being driven to consume more and more of the food that all official providers of nutritional advice advised you to consume . . . until you put an end to the whole mess as a result of the revelations made in Wheat Belly .

You boldly removed foods that enjoy the blessings of agencies in the business of dispensing dietary advice. You defied the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) and its MyPlate and MyPyramid. You scoffed at the urgings of the Surgeon General’s office. You thumbed your nose at the advice of the American Heart Association, American Diabetes Association, and the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. You sniggered at the antics of the wheat lobby and wheat trade groups as they desperately launched wave after wave of damage control. You removed grains like a festering abscess that refused to heal until lanced, and you discovered that health and vigour began to reappear.