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Critics say the anti-wheat claims made by leading health crusader Dr. William Davis are based on shaky science, an investigation by the fifth estate has found. Davis is the author of the No. 1...
Regardless of the effects on blood sugar, the underlying animal-based, low-grain, low-starchy-vegetable diet consisting of those very foods recommended in the books Wheat Belly and Grain Brain, is the major reason people with type-2 diabetes are so sick with heart and other diseases.
There is no scientific evidence that foods with gluten cause more weight gain than other foods. But the Wheat Belly diet doesn’t only take away gluten. It also bans a whole host of other foods ...
We have been warned that eating wheat makes our bellies fatter and triggers diseases ranging from diabetes to autism. It’s true that refined grains, including wheat, have been stripped of much of their natural nutrition, and that processed carbohydrates have contributed to America’s obesity epidemic.
Research tells us that subcutaneous fat (the jiggly fat just under the skin) is generally harmless, while visceral fat, which surrounds vital organs deep in your abdomen, is linked with inflammation and risk of chronic disease.
The bestselling book, Wheat Belly Diet, written by cardiologist William Davis, M.D., makes some extraordinary claims about the dangers of wheat. Dr. Davis suggests that wheat is ubiquitous in our diets and is so addictive that it causes uncontrollable eating and produces withdrawal symptoms when you stop consuming it.
Bestselling books have warned that wheat consumption is a key contributor to abdominal fat (wheat belly), as well as triggering diseases ranging from diabetes to autism, and that eating wheat is linked to Alzheimers, depression, headaches, epilepsy and ADHD.
Proponents of grain-free diets, such as the paleo diet, Whole30, “Wheat Belly,” low-carb diets, and most recently, lectin-free diets, believe that whole grains are inflammatory. They state ...
Abstract. After earlier debates on the role of fat, high fructose corn syrup, and added sugar in the aetiology of obesity, it has recently been suggested that wheat consumption is involved. Suggestions have been made that wheat consumption has adverse effects on health by mechanisms related to addiction and overeating.
The AACCI article challenges Wheat Belly’s author William Davis’s recommendation to cut wheat entirely from the diet.