Monthly Archives: November 2011

Chocolate . . . for Adults Only

Posted on November 30, 2011 by Dr. Davis

If you’ve got a serious chocolate addiction and you’d like to make it as healthy as possible, give this X-rated dark chocolate a try. I call it X-rated because it is certain to not satisfy young, sugar-craving palates, but is … Continue reading →

Posted in Recipes | 47 Comments

A Wheat Belly Primer

Posted on November 27, 2011 by Dr. Davis

Sean Croxton at Underground Wellness put together two excellent summaries of the Wheat Belly arguments. They are especially helpful for anyone just getting underway with their wheat-free experience and trying to understand why wheat is such a destructive component of … Continue reading →

Posted in Wheat Belly--The Book | 28 Comments

Flash in the Pan Fad Diet?

Posted on November 27, 2011 by Dr. Davis

Wheat Belly Blog reader, Boundless, left this wonderfully detailed comment on his/her thoughts on how the Wheat Belly message might be handled by various agencies and media. (This is a repost, since we lost the posts of the last 48 … Continue reading →

Posted in Wheat Belly counterattacks | 18 Comments

The Wheat Deficiency Syndrome

Posted on November 27, 2011 by Dr. Davis

Beware the dreaded Wheat Deficiency Syndrome. This is what will happen to you if you eliminate wheat, the food that the USDA and U.S. Dept of Health and Human services tell us, through their Dietary Guidelines for Americans, to eat … Continue reading →

Posted in Wheat-ectomy | 41 Comments

Quit your pushing

Posted on November 24, 2011 by Dr. Davis

I don’t like talking about it since it makes me wonder whether I’m starting down that inevitable decline towards the day when all I want to talk about is having a “good bowel movement.” But the C word–constipation–has come up … Continue reading →

Posted in Fiber intake | 45 Comments

Wheat and Depression: 2

Posted on November 22, 2011 by Dr. Davis

Unfortunately, the question of wheat’s relationship to depression is very poorly charted in the medical literature. We do know that people with celiac disease experience more depression and commit suicide more often than the general population (a big issue all … Continue reading →

Posted in Emotional effects | 31 Comments

Wheat-free Thanksgiving Pumpkin Pie

Posted on November 22, 2011 by Dr. Davis

Pumpkin pie is one of those fixtures of Thanksgiving dinner that, when recreated without wheat, can be enjoyed without worry. No worries over weight gain, increased blood sugar, triglycerides, blood pressure. No leg edema, abdominal cramps or diarrhea. No depression, … Continue reading →

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Wheat and . . . depression

Posted on November 21, 2011 by Dr. Davis

Barbara left this informative comment about depression and her wheat-free experience: Hi, I live in Brooklyn, New York. After devouring your book at the end of September, I decided to do “one” month of wheat free living. I was suffering … Continue reading →

Posted in Wheat-elimination success stories | 38 Comments

Tracking your wheat-free experience

Posted on November 20, 2011 by Dr. Davis

A comment was posted on the Facebook page for the Wheat Belly Blog about tracking the wheat-free experience. It concerned me because he/she was going to track things like cholesterol values. Sadly, cholesterol values can be a crude and often … Continue reading →

Posted in Metabolic markers, Wheat-elimination success stories | 21 Comments

Is it too much to say that eliminating wheat TRANSFORMS lives?

Posted on November 20, 2011 by Dr. Davis

I don’t think so. Because I see it every day. I see people discovering that the “secret” to weight loss has been staring them in the face for years in the form of the bran muffin or breakfast cereal, all … Continue reading →

Posted in Wheat-elimination success stories | 48 Comments