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Common misconceptions surrounding vitamin D

Because vitamin D is so crucial for overall health, it is important to get it right. Unfortunately, there are so many misconceptions surrounding vitamin D that cause many people to never obtain all the wonderful benefits it provides.

Here’s how to get it right—simple, straightforward, maximum health benefits.

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What are the symptoms of vitamin D deficiency?

There are symptoms that suggest you are deficient in this crucial nutrient–but really hormone–called vitamin D. But the truth is that most people will have either non-specific or NO symptoms of vitamin D despite the profound potential consequences of longstanding deficiency.

Understand and correct vitamin D deficiency and you are hugely empowered in long-term health and performance.

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What’s wrong with gluten-free diets?

Does following a gluten-free diet lead to nutrient deficiencies or other health problems, as some critics claim?

You can indeed follow a healthy gluten-free diet, but avoid these common misconceptions and pitfalls to stay safe. When followed properly, you can achieve magnificent improvements in health and weight with this lifestyle. Even better, go the Wheat Belly route and be GRAIN-free, as well.

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Wheat and iron deficiency anemia

Modern wheat has been bred for greater phytate content because phytates provide pest resistance to the wheat plant. But farmers and agricultural geneticists ignored the fact that phytates are also toxic to humans.

In particular, the phytates of wheat and related grains bind nearly all the iron that comes from diet, making it an exceptionally common cause of iron deficiency anemia. Combine this with the absurd and destructive national advice to consume plenty of “healthy whole grains” and you have a recipe for disaster.

The solution? Simple: Eat no wheat or grains and enjoy a health and weight transformation that goes well beyond restoration of normal blood counts.

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How to break your addiction to this poison called sugar

The effects of sugar on health are far worse than most people think. Breaking an addictive relationship with sugar intake is therefore crucial for overall health.

Here are some easy ways to turn off your desire for sugar while still enjoying goodies like cheesecake and cookies.

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Could your medications be blocking weight loss?

Although it is rarely acknowledged by doctors, many common medications (prescription and non-prescription) can block your ability to lose weight or even cause weight gain, sometimes extravagantly.

If you are failing in your weight loss efforts, recognize which drugs may be impairing your success. Even better, correct the common health factors that lead to various health conditions that prompted the use of these drugs in the first place, just as we do in the Wheat Belly and Undoctored programs.

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How to reduce triglycerides

High triglycerides are a common finding on standard cholesterol panels and signifies higher risk for heart disease, type 2 diabetes, insulin resistance, stroke, and fatty liver. While much of the information on a standard cholesterol panel is virtually useless garbage, the triglyceride value is indeed useful, as it represents an accurate gauge of VLDL particles that underlie heart disease risk.

Here are natural and easy ways to drop triglycerides (and thereby VLDL particles) from even high levels of 350, 500, 700 mg/dl or more to 60 mg/dl or less, a value associated with magnificent health and marked reduction of risk for heart disease.

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The Wheat Belly Dietary One-Way Street

Those of us who are wheat/grain-free living the Wheat Belly lifestyle typically become ill when we are re-exposed to wheat or grains, intentionally or inadvertently. So we avoid any re-exposures. We therefore recreate foods such as pizza, muffins, and cookies using benign, healthy ingredients. Interestingly, you can serve the foods made with these benign, healthy ingredients to people who continue to consume wheat and grains, but you cannot eat their food without getting sick.

Therein lies a very important dietary lesson.

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The next Wheat Belly 10-Day Grain Detox Challenge begins Wed May 8th!

Put it off no longer: We are planning our next Wheat Belly 10-Day Grain Detox Challenge that starts on Wednesday, May 8th. This is your opportunity to seize control over health and weight, maybe even turn the clock back 10 or 20 years, look and feel better, be freed of numerous, if not all, prescription drugs.

In addition to our Wheat Belly 10-Day Grain Detox Private Facebook page that provides videos, success stories, and plenty of feedback and answers to your questions, the next Detox Challenge will also include:

1) LIVE Facebook sessions with Dr. Davis and April Duval, our main Facebook page administrator. I will personally kick off the Detox Challenge on May 8th. And because April is herself an example of a fabulous Wheat Belly Detox success, she knows the ins and outs of this lifestyle like the back of her hand.

2) Free access to the Suggestic smartphone app for the first 7 days of the Detox— The Suggestic iPhone app helps you navigate the Wheat Belly Detox with even more recipes, daily suggested recipes, a net carb counter, a restaurant locator to identify eating places consistent with our lifestyle with suggested menu items, all personally customizable. It is your chance to get acquainted with the useful Suggestic app while helping you succeed on your Wheat Belly 10-Day Grain Detox.

Here’s what you do:

Visit wheatbelly.suggestic.com by May 8th, but preferably sooner!
Sign up to get 7-day free access to my challenge on the Suggestic app
On May 8th, go to the app’s homepage and tap “start program” so we can start the challenge together!

Our goal: to help you succeed in turning around your life and health and achieve all your health goals including weight loss, getting off prescription medications, and turning back the clock 10 or 20 years.

Why the Detox Challenge?

Through my New York Times bestseller, Wheat Belly, millions of people learned how to reverse years of chronic health problems by removing wheat from their daily diets. But, after reading the original Wheat Belly or the Wheat Belly Total Health book, or even using the recipes from the Wheat Belly Cookbook and Wheat Belly 30-Minute Cookbook, people still said: “I’ve read the books, but I’m still not sure how to get started on this lifestyle.”

That’s why I wrote the Wheat Belly 10-Day Grain Detox  and now help readers along in this Wheat Belly 10-Day Grain Detox CHALLENGE. This is the quickest, most assured way to get started on regaining magnificent health and slenderness by adopting the Wheat Belly lifestyle.

We are kicking off the next Wheat Belly 10-Day Grain Detox Challenge on Facebook LIVE on Day 1: Wednesday May 8th, 12pm EST/11 am CST/10 am MT/9 am PT. Come join us on the private Wheat Belly 10-Day Grain Detox Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/groups/52751...

You will also be given free access to the Wheat Belly 10-Day Grain Detox Suggestic smartphone app for the first 7 days of the Detox!

The Wheat Belly 10-Day Grain Detox supplies you with carefully designed meal plans and delicious recipes to fully eliminate wheat and related grains in the shortest time possible. Perfect for those who may have fallen off the wagon or for newcomers who need a jump-start for weight loss, this new addition to the Wheat Belly phenomenon guides you through the complete 10-Day Detox experience. And we will kick off this next Challenge with a live Facebook session with Dr. Davis!

In addition to this quick-start program, I’ll teach you:

How to recognize and reduce wheat-withdrawal symptoms,
How to avoid common landmines that can sabotage success
How to use nutritional supplements to further advance weight loss and health benefits

The Wheat Belly 10-Day Grain Detox also includes:

Inspiring testimonials from people who have completed the program (and have now made grain-free eating a way of life)

Exciting new recipes to help get your entire family on board

To join the Detox Challenge:

Step 1

Get the book. And read it (at least the first 5 chapters).

Detox Challenge participants should be informed and active in order to get the most out of the challenge and private Facebook group. READING THE WHEAT BELLY DETOX BOOK IS REQUIRED TO PARTICIPATE. PLEASE DO NOT PARTICIPATE IF YOU HAVE NOT READ THE BOOK or else the conversations will not make sense and you will not enjoy full benefit. It is a very bad idea to try and piece the program together just from our conversations. (Note that the Wheat Belly Detox program is NOT laid out in the original Wheat Belly book.)

Amazon: http://amzn.to/1JqzMea

Barnes & Noble: http://bit.ly/wheatbelly10daygraindetox-bn

Indiebound: http://bit.ly/1KwcFTQ

Step 2

Come join the Private Facebook Group.

http://bit.ly/WheatBelly-PrivateFBGroup

Step 3

Head back to the Private Facebook Group starting Tuesday, May 7th (the day before the official start of the Challenge) and onwards for tips, videos, and discussions to help you get through your detox and reprogram your body for rapid weight loss and health. Dr. Davis and site administrator, April Duval, will be posting video instructions and answers to your questions. Or just join the conversation now, as we discuss the ups and downs, share recipes, and just have fun every day!

 

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Are you a cow?

The grazing ruminants of the earth are able to obtain virtually all their nutrition from consuming grasses and forage. They harbor specific anatomic and physiologic adaptations developed over millions of years to do so.

Humans have no such adaptations but are advised by all “official” sources of dietary advice to make grains–the seeds of grasses–the cornerstone of the diet. It means that there are numerous indigestible or only partially digestible proteins in wheat and grains that explain why autoimmune diseases, gastrointestinal disruption, and other health conditions are so commonly caused by wheat and grain consumption in humans.

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