Matthew Royal’s Reviews > Wheat Belly: Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight, and Find Your Path Back to Health > Status Update

The counter - argument to Davis is that quite a few people eat modern wheat and refined sugars and have no health problems nor obesity. Claiming wheat is always the sole cause of someone's IBS, cancer, ortcetera is not medically responsible. Still, it's an interesting idea that high amounts of carbs wear out the pancreas's insulin-producing capacity over time, and thus can lead to diabetes.

Just because wheat and opioids make the same part of the brain light up doesn't mean wheat is an opioid. Otherwise, we would consider happiness, sex, and running to be opioids.

It's an interesting premise that eating too much (genetically enhanced) wheat is the cause of the American obesity epidemic. I look at Davis's claims of eating GM wheat as the cause of most modern ailments in the same way that I look at people claiming red wine vinegar can cure them, but the central idea merits an open mind.