Wheat Belly: Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight and Find Your Path Back to Health

by William Davis

quote Einstein: “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results”

Advice to cut fat and cholesterol intake and replace the calories with whole grains that was issued by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute through its National Cholesterol Education Program in 1985 coincides precisely with the start of a sharp upward climb in body weight for men and women.

Because wheat, by a considerable margin, is the worst of the bunch, the ringleader of dietary ne’er-do-wells.

Another condition in which wheat may exert effects on a vulnerable mind is autism. Autistic children suffer from impaired ability to interact socially and communicate. The

condition has increased in frequency over the past forty years, from rare in the mid-twentieth century to 1 in 150 children in the twenty-first.9 Initial small samples have demonstrated improvement in autistic behaviors with gluten removal.10, 11 The most comprehensive clinical trials to date with formal measures of autistic behavior have demonstrated improvement with gluten elimination (sometimes combined with elimination of casein from dairy and a variety of different nutritional supplements).12, 13, 14

But there’s nothing wrong with you; there is something wrong with the recommendation to consume something that made its way into the human diet in desperation,

The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.

—LUCILLE BALL

potassium iodide drops or kelp (dried seaweed) tablets, a form that approximates the natural, ocean-derived source.

enthusiastic intake of nuts and seeds also contributes magnesium. Almonds contain 80 mg magnesium per ounce; peanuts contain 50 mg per dry roasted ounce or 2 tablespoons peanut butter; spinach, 156 mg per cooked cup. The real magnesium superstars are seeds: pumpkin seeds, 191 mg per ¼ cup; sesame seeds, 126 mg per ¼ cup; sunflower seeds, 114 mg per ¼ cup. Spinach and seeds are therefore the richest magnesium sources.

We adhere to the rules of life written into our genetic code, not the message you were given by the USDA, Kellogg’s, Pfizer, or the countless others who purport to be your friends by persuading you to wander off your genetic script.

carbohydrate, no more than nuclear fission is just another chemical reaction. Problem: Given the wide berth the “healthy whole grain” message has been given the last fifty years, you may be in the minority in your neighborhood or home in coming to these realizations.

just living a grain-free life, just as you were supposed to all along.