Foreword to Wheat Belly Revised & Expanded Edition

An excerpt from the Wheat Belly Revised & Expanded Edition:

Have you ever ever come house from the grocery retailer with a recent container of milk, opened it and instantly realized that it was unhealthy—sour-smelling, curdled, unfit to drink? 

Feed it to the cat? Most likely not. Lighten your espresso? I don’t suppose so. Pour it down the sink—yeah, that’s the ticket. Or perhaps return to the shop with a few of the curdled stays and ask to your a refund. 

That’s what your response to traditional dietary recommendation needs to be. It is best to wrinkle your nostril on the unhealthy scent that emanates from recommendation that creates an astonishingly lengthy record of well being issues, from eczema to weight problems, from plantar fasciitis to colon most cancers. Blessed by meals producers, extolled by dietitians, occupying essentially the most seen eye-level cabinets in grocery shops, elevated to high of the record of meals to incorporate in each meal by most docs, consensus dietary opinion has gotten us right into a heap of bother, an epidemic of bulging bellies, insulin injections, poisonous medication for autoimmune situations whereas waddling, limping, or driving scooters in XXL pants and attire, a scenario unprecedented in human historical past.  

Ought to we settle for the frequent judgement that the most important epidemic of continual well being points in historical past is because of laziness, sloth, ethical weak spot, failure to tally energy in and energy out, mysterious and unidentified viral infections as is usually accomplished by the medical group . . . or may official dietary recommendation itself be the trigger?

One thing massive—actually massive—was sparked with the discharge of the unique Wheat Stomach ebook. I consider it helped restore a way of scent to the general public, serving to many to comprehend that there certainly was one thing fallacious in food regimen that, regardless of long-term blessings from “official” sources of dietary knowledge, created a stink that you just couldn’t shake off, irrespective of what number of instances you plugged your nostril. It may need been seven-grain, natural, and wealthy in fiber, however there was so a lot fallacious following the dictates of standard recommendation, even adopted to a T. (It prompted folks to cite Einstein: “The definition of madness is doing the identical factor time and again and anticipating completely different outcomes” after docs admonished them for gaining weight, experiencing increased blood sugars, and feeling terrible whereas following a food regimen low in fats and wealthy in “wholesome complete grains.” “You might want to attempt tougher,” they’d be instructed. If not madness, no less than blatant irrationality.) 

A number of years and thousands and thousands of readers later because the authentic Wheat Stomach ebook was launched, it has develop into clear that our species made an enormous blunder: seeds of grasses, i.e., wheat and its genetic cousins, don’t belong within the human food regimen, not to mention promoted as wholesome or mandatory, any greater than you must invite Harvey Weinstein to your eighties evening get together—there’ll be nasty long-term penalties to pay for an evening of one-sided titillation. You may’t eat the leaves, stalks, or husks of grasses—then why ought to we be capable to devour the seeds?

Not consuming this factor referred to as wheat, celebrated by nearly all who supply dietary recommendation, is a revelation as massive as recognizing that trafficking people is a foul thought or that enslaving populations for reasonable labor will not be proper. You suppose I’m pushing the comparisons too far? As you get into this ebook, I predict that you’ll quickly acknowledge how deep, disabling, and prevalent the results of consuming wheat are for us, enslavement actually not that far off. It’s not only a matter of avoiding gluten or decreasing energy. Just like the lion whose life-style you disapprove of since you watched it tear open the stomach of a wildebeest, then devour its liver, intestines, and coronary heart after which, out of disgust, you substitute its food regimen with kale and spinach—you’ll have a useless lion in brief order. Restoring the human food regimen to its pure state, one programmed into our genetics, is like giving the lion one other serving of wildebeest: it’s lifesaving. Recognizing the elemental error we made as a species by viewing the seeds of grasses as meals is simply as massive a mistake, however one which we now have barely began to recuperate from with wheat and associated grains comprising 70% of all worldwide human energy. That is no small financial matter, both. Consider all of the farmers, millers, bakers, meals corporations, dietitians, and multinational Massive Agribusiness conglomerates that play a task in an trade created round this terrible assortment: seeds of grasses misconstrued as meals. Undoing this error will likely be messy.

Wheat Stomach started as my modest effort to assist folks with coronary heart illness cease counting on the revolving door of angioplasty, stents, and bypass surgical procedure. The life-style that developed from this effort did certainly carry a halt to chest ache and coronary heart assaults, changing my procedural follow into one which was purely preventive with nearly no want for coronary heart procedures or hospitals. But it surely proved to perform way over that. Medicine to cut back blood sugar or blood strain? Gone. Medicine for acid reflux disease or diarrhea? Flushed down the bathroom. Statin medication with all-expense-paid journeys to Orlando for the prescriber? Phooey. These efforts developed right into a complete program that addressed a protracted record of frequent trendy well being situations, from extra weight to sort 2 diabetes, from autoimmune situations to irritable bowel syndrome, together with lots of of others. The explosive success of this strategy, not simply in coronary heart illness, however in so many different areas of well being, signifies that the world of vitamin and well being won’t ever be the identical. 

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