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

It starts out with this asshole who's now made millions of dollars convincing people gluten is evil to humans. Then suddenly it's open season, because other folks realize there's money to be made all down the line by writers, nutritional consultants and food manufacturers.

Now we have tens of millions of people who were raised on wheat, but "can't" eat all the breads/pastas/etc. they grew up learning to love, so there's a huge opportunity to manufacture and market a whole class of new foods that emulate wheat.



One of the fucked up things about the whole ridiculous GF fad is that as long as you're not Celiac's or have a legitimate gluten intolerance, gluten is the best part of the wheat. If you want to be healthy, reduce your intake of simple carbohydrates, not protein. I can tell you from experience you can get just as fat eating too much rice and potatoes as bread.

20 years from now the gluten free thing will be forgotten for the most part, and the shysters will have villainized some new aspect of our diet. It'll be something like umami. They'll have discovered that glutamate in any form is deadly, so there will be umami-free diets, and hundreds of shitty new manufactured foods that simulate the taste of meat using some weird new chemicals, and restaurant cooks will be getting tickets for umami-free rib-eyes & Caesar salads from crazy ass customers insisting they had it last week.

Dude if you want to make real money, write books that simply tell people that eating gluten is something they shouldn't eat. Even if they don't have any conditions preventing them from doing so.

According to this book brain fog can dissapear after you stop eating wheat.

Maybe just try it and you'll see

I will probably get downvoted for this unfortunately, but:-

Minimise (don't completely eliminate, but restrict) rice and all other forms of carbohydrates, such as potatoes and primarily starchy vegetables. Conventional opinion assumes (as the people in this thread have) that weight gain is caused by animal fat in the diet, but said conventional opinion is wrong. The lipid hypothesis is BS. Carbohydrates are the real problem; they get converted to sugar, and then directly to body fat.

The Vegetarian Myth. The author of this is a prototypical cultural Marxist, but she provides the best debunking of the lipid hypothesis (why animal fat in the body is supposedly destructive) that I've ever encountered.

Wheat Belly. This is an accompanying book about why wheat and cereals, rather than milk and fats, are the real enemies of weight loss.

I knew that the diet fixed this, and obviously I was eating gluten like mad previously (Cheez-its, anyone?). I found out for sure it was gluten when I made a pumpkin bread from an Atkin's mix which has vital wheat gluten as the first ingredient. I swelled up and did my ole vomiting routine, and verified that yes, gluten is the devil. If you have any academic interest in learning more about gluten, the history of wheat and its health effects this book called Wheat Belly is awesome.

I hear you when you say you miss the beer.

I miss the beer. It is most certainly the hardest thing about dieting, and in the way I do keto it is virtually absent compared to before. I used to drink 2 beers per evening. It was just a habit, but wow did I love my beer. In the first few weeks of keto for me I cut it out entirely, I didn't want it messing with the adaptation process. For a while I drank the low carb beers - some of them taste quite OK. Now I don't drink beer at all.

I got to thinking about how I became so bloated, and I read the book [Wheat Belly] (http://amzn.com/1609614798). I realized that beer is liquid bread, and that the carbs (alcohol not so much) were literally killing me. That was the main reason for my weight gain and for the creeping hypertension I was having.

So eventually I changed my relationship with beer. I started seeing it is something not to crave, but to fear. Drinking beer would send me back into a balloon shape, would raise my blood pressure, would increase insulin resistance and start me down the path of prediabetes.

No matter how great beer tastes, being healthy and slim feels a million times better.

I didn't really have a routine. The only thing I did consistently was the mommy-baby aquacise class 1/week starting at 3 months pp. The book Wheat Belly played a significant role in my diet, and gave me some ideas for not gaining so much next time around (mainly to do with controlling blood sugar and cravings). Exercise was a mix of strength and cardio. Emphasis on strength. Women tend to overdo the cardio, which is less effective.

http://www.amazon.com/Grain-Brain-Surprising-Sugar--Your-Killers/dp/031623480X

http://www.amazon.com/Wheat-Belly-Lose-Weight-Health/dp/1609614798

http://www.amazon.com/The-Paleo-Diet-Healthy-Designed/dp/0470913029

http://www.amazon.com/Paleo-Diet-Athletes-Nutritional-Performance/dp/160961917X

http://www.amazon.com/Gluten-Connection-Sensitivity-Sabotaging-Control/dp/1594863873

http://www.amazon.com/Dangerous-Grains-Gluten-Cereal-Hazardous/dp/1583331298

http://www.amazon.com/Healthier-Without-Wheat-Understanding-Intolerance/dp/0976853795

http://www.amazon.com/Going-Against-Grain-Reducing-Revitalize/dp/0658017225

Consider reading this book from the FAQ

https://www.reddit.com/r/keto/wiki/faq

https://www.amazon.com/Wheat-Belly-Lose-Weight-Health/dp/1609614798/

It actually explains that wheat triggers an addictive response in your brain, similar to things like heroin, that triggers your appetite to eat more. Administration of the same family of drugs that suppress opiate addiction also suppress appetite & block the appetite trigger when eating those foods.

I can't view Youtube at the office, but I get the idea this book is relevant to the topic.

> "As to whether a low-fat or high-fat diet is better for management- well, we obviously don't know which is better right now"

A physician, a cardiologist to be specific, wrote a book called "The Wheat Belly" that blames a lot of the dietary caused health problems in this country on our grain based diet. Have you read it? It's a good read.

> "You are arguing that all type II diabetes "

I've never said 100% but I do believe a significant percentage is diet & behavior.

I worked in hospitals for 8+ years. Mostly as part of the trauma team in the ER.

I can, with 100% certainty, say that most (not all, so don't put more words in my mouth) of the people in the hospital are there for behavioral problems. Their health issues are caused by their actions - they eat too much (shitty) food, they smoke too much, they don't get enough exercise, they drink too much alcohol or they participate in high risk behaviors such as IV drug use or unprotected sex with high risk partners such as prostitutes.

My father lived to be 80. However, the last 10 years of his life were pretty miserable because of a quadruple bypass operation, circulation problems, a mild stroke and the start of lung cancer. Doctors claimed he had heart disease. This is another thing that is wrong with our healthcare system. My father didn't die from a disease. My father died from his behaviors. He smoked 2 packs of cigarettes a day for 40 years. For most of the time I can remember he often drank a 6 pack a night. He put a stick of margarine on everything (because advertisers, doctors & dietitians lied and told us margarine is healthier than butter). He ate a lot of other shitty, highly processed foods and he didn't exercise on a regular basis. His behaviors clogged up his heart arteries, his leg arteries and his neck arteries, not a disease. His behavior, of inhaling toxic, carcinogen laden smoke for 40 years, eventually caused irreparable damage to his lungs.

Our bodies are analogous to a car. If you don't change your oil, if you don't change your tranny fluid or your radiator fluid, if you don't maintain the car, it brakes down and falls apart.

We've been told for 30 years that grains are good for us, that low-fat is good for us and yet diet related illnesses are escalating at rapidly increasing levels.

Do you ever watch what most people eat?

Even better do you often pay attention to what people eat that they think is healthy?

I often see co-workers putting a container of "lean cuisine" food in the micro-wave at work. They are bullshitting themselves that this food is healthy. I have a fat, female co-worker who eats this shit frequently because she thinks it’s healthy and she’ll lose weight. I’m eating coconut fat, avocados, whole milk, whole milk yogurt, bacon, eggs, etc yet I'm in awesome shape with about 10% body fat (I’m 5'10, 170lbs) while she continues to struggle with weight issues.

I see this same behavior everywhere - people eating highly processed, low-fat foods with tons of carbs & grains because they’ve been lied to that it’s healthy and that they’ll lose weight.

Look at the ingredient list of a piece of lean cuisine. 56grams of carbs. Highly selectively bred wheat that is probably GMO'ed that is no good for one's body. It also has lots of artificial ingredients and preservatives such as Sodium Nitrate, BHA, BHT. BHA is considered to be a human carcinogen. BHT also has potential serious health risks to humans

There are many articles & stories about the Alaskan & Northwest Indians who's traditional, high fat diet doesn’t cause the health problems that doctors & dietitians claim would happen when someone eats so much fat. And yet, when the high carb, high sugar Western diet was introduced to their culture, dietary related health issues such as obesity, cardiac issues and low & behold, type II diabetes increased significantly - "So much so that type 2 diabetes, obesity, and other diseases of Western civilization are becoming causes for concern there too." There are better links than this one, but because of a lack of time, this is the one I using today.

> "You are arguing that all type II diabetes is "easily controllable" by dietary changes and exercise, which is entirely false."

No it's not. My step mother had an onset of adult, type II diabetes in her late 50s. Her’s was all diet & behavior related.

Its my understanding that even whole wheat breads and grains are not great for you when eaten to the degree recommended by the US Government. I found http://www.amazon.com/dp/1609614798 to be an enlightening read on why this is.

It's wheat belly. Cut out (or at least reduce) your consumption of refined grains and other sugars and it'll melt away.

You should read ‘wheat belly’ it was interesting.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/1609614798/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_awdb_t1_AL-NAbMMMRNGA

https://www.amazon.com/Wheat-Belly-Lose-Weight-Health/dp/1609614798

SSRIs are tricky stuff and it is outside of our scope of practice make suggestions on what is appropriate for you in concern to your medications.

That said, a healthy diet does have data to suggest it can help with mental health issues and potentially reduce your need for medications and thus the sleep preventing side effect.

Coelicac Disease and Schizophrenia have been documented to have quicker dischargement rate when cereal was removed from the diet this suggests that wheat products have potential triggering effect on mental symptoms. Consider reading Wheat Belly or Grain Brain for more on this subject.

Keto can alleviates depression via reduction of inflammation

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Inversely high sugar diets have higher increased risk with rates of depression and mood disorders A keto diet removes sugar from the diet.

credit to /u/dem0n0cracy for posting sources

Give it a try. Read the ketoscience guide for a simple introduction on how to start:

https://www.reddit.com/r/ketoscience/wiki/guide

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Actually a lot of good objective science behind this, check out "Wheat Belly" if you're interested. Very illuminating look at the development of the wheat industry in America and how the modern "store bought" stuff is genetically engineered to be better tasting and longer lasting, at the expense of being EXTREMELY unhealthy and a huge contributor to the nationwide obesity and diabetes epidemic.

Amazon link: http://www.amazon.com/dp/1609614798

start removing wheat/gluten as it is very bad for immune system.

I am a vegan with arthritis and getting better since I dropped wheat based food.

read this: http://www.amazon.com/dp/1609614798