Book Review: Wheat Belly by William Davis, MD:
Eliminating wheat from your diet can help you lose weight and reclaim your health.
Dr. William Davis has a bone, or rather, a grain, to pick with the average American diet. After tracking more than 2000 of his high-risk cardiology patients and placing them on a wheat-free diet, Dr. Davis has come to a disturbing conclusion: our nation’s obesity epidemic is not caused by fat, or sugar, or for the most part, lifestyle. Dr. Davis believes it is caused by one of the largest cash crops in the world, the food that takes up entire aisles in every grocery store and constitutes more than 20% of all calories consumed worldwide. It is caused by a highly-processed, genetically-hybridized food manufactured to provide the greatest profit for food producers at the lowest possible cost.
A food that spikes blood sugar, increases inflammation, causes empty calories to be stored as belly-fat and creates morphine-like by-products that cross the blood-brain barrier and cause addictive symptoms similar to cocaine. That food is Wheat.
Consumers beware. As early as 8500 BC, Nomads in the Fertile Crescent first domesticated Einkorn, the ancient ancestor of modern wheat. Growing grains in tended fields yielded a surplus of food that allowed people to specialize their occupations, form governments and develop art and culture. But the genetic modifications encouraged by factory farming methods forced biochemical changes to wheat’s protein structure that now elicit a devastating immune response.
Dr. Davis believes that he could have just as simply called his book Pretzel Brain or Bagel Bowel or Biscuit Face, since there is not an organ that remains unaffected by the insidious consumption of this once nutritious grain. But the bottom line is this: elimination of this food could make you leaner, smarter, happier and healthier. Try it today. Wheat Belly is available on Amazon.
Important note: The Wheat Grass Powder in Greens Plus is composed of 100% young, immature wheat grass and is not to be confused with the wheat grain and germ featured in this book. Greens Plus contains no wheat gluten, agglutinin or gliadin.
Christopher Daniels is Executive Vice-President of Greens Plus. He studied Holistic Nutrition at the Clayton College of Natural Health and currently directs Superfood Research and Product Development.
