Wheatbelly...? Wheat, the UNHEALTHY wholegrain?!

Ezekiel 4:9 “Take wheat and barley, beans and lentils, millet and spelt; put them in a storage jar and use them to make bread for yourself. "

If it's good enough for the Lord, it's good enough for me.

LOVE IT!

from what I understand God rejected Cain's offering of bread and accepted Abel's offering of a fat lamb.

No wonder Cain was narked. How rude.

We eat grain free and we feel so much better. My eczema is gone along with a rash that I always had on the back of my arms. Joint pain that I thought I would just have to live with is no longer. I still eat as many calories as anyone else but the weight peels off and I don't have to work as hard to get the same weight and toning results. There is what is called carb flu that we had trouble with the first couple of weeks and then we had never felt better. Tonight we decided to eat out chinese and we are definitely paying for it. I didn't overeat, but became bloated and heavy before I could even finish my food. It was not worth it. It may not be for everyone and I was a skeptic too, but it has been nothing but fantastic for me and my family.

I have done a lot of research on this! And even though I've discovered about the inflammatory nature of wheat, and that the GLUTEN-FREE (gluten, a protein found in weight which many people are intolerant to) grains are better:

Quinoa, Buckwheat (NOT from wheat), corn, rice, oats (which have not been processed in a factory that processes wheat as a lot of oats are contaminated) sorghum and amaranth ARE BETTER than wheat, barley and rye.

I still eat bread though as I've not yet found a gluten free variety available in Ireland which is good enough.

I WISH they sould sprouted ezekial bread here! :noway:

I eliminated wheat from my diet just over 2 years ago when a naturopath recommended eliminating it, along with sugar and milk (not all dairy, just milk), for a short time to see if it helped. I've had excema on my face, arms and legs for most of my life and have had to use steroid creams to control it, but nothing ever healed it. After 3 months of avoiding the 3 things, my skin had improved and the naturopath suggested I introduce them each slowly to see if I could tolerate them again. When I re-introduced wheat, my rash flared up and I itched like crazy. Same with milk (I'm fine with cheese and other dairy though). So I now avoid both of those. If I eat sugar in excess, I find my rash flares as well. Nothing else has ever helped my skin so much as avoiding these. Vanity has kept me to this way of eating, as the rash on my face is the first to appear Having finally gotten rid of it after having a persistent rash for over 20 years, giving up something like wheat is a small price to pay for me. I've also noticed a big improvement in digestion, which was also a lifelong problem for me. Strangely I can eat sprouted wheat products, but nothing that contains wheat flour.

I haven't read the book, but eliminating wheat has helped me immensely. My doc describes my condition as a wheat "intolerance". I eat a lot of gluten free products as a result of my intolerance, but I don't completely avoid gluten (I seem to do fine with rye and oats, and don't eat much barley anyway). It wouldn't surprise me to find out that a lot of people benefit from going off of wheat, but it is not the easiest thing to do (you'd be surprised how many foods include wheat). If you have issues, eliminating wheat for a trial period might help, but it is not an easy thing to do. And I don't believe that simply replacing processed food that contains wheat with gluten free processed foods will be of any benefit. Processed foods by nature are just not that great for you - whether they contain gluten or not. I do buy them, don't get me wrong, but I know that they are not as healthy as home prepared foods (they are quite convenient though Sometimes you just want a cookie, but just because it is gluten free, does not make it "healthy" :bigsmile:

I eat wheat, and have been fit and healthy my whole life (until injury).

Unless you're gluten intolerant it should not cause a problem. Everyone gets bloated by this, that or the other...some say veggies, some say grains, some say pulses, and i'm sure others say meat. A little bit of bloating is part of digestion. Feeling full and heavy is part of digestion.

The scientific consensus and millenia of history suggest that wheat is good for you, so eat up if you don't display the symptoms of celiac.

I've cut down on wheaty products like bread and pasta, but only because they tend to be the items I go overboard on and I feel bloated. I still eat a little bread (wholegrain over white) and pasta (again, wholemeal over white), but not as much as before. I've also started swapping things out a little, like having sweet potato gnocchi instead of pasta. I still have some, but in moderation, and I feel better for it. Oh, and I do still have some cereals too, but there you go.


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I wouldn't trust the blood test as the conditions have to be correct for it to be accurate. I took the DNA test which came back negative, so,under the advise of my doctor, added gluten back in.
After three weeks, I had bloating, gas, all of the other symptoms that go with gluten intolerance, and gained 20 pounds!

Now that I am back to being gluten-free, I am losing weight and most importantly, feel much better, more than likely due to the fact that I am sleeping better. Another little known side effect of gluten issues, sleep apneia.

For those that can tolerate the wheat, there is no problem with it except for portion control. If you eat eight sandwiches a day, well, you are probably going to have some sort if problem!

One other thing, one of the other posters from a foreign country stated that Celiac was found in 1 in 10 individuals. Here, in the USA, the numbers are supposedly 1 in 133. I suspect that the real numbers are probably 1 in 50 as most are misdiagnosed with IBS, the catch-all for any digestive ailment, when the doctor doesn't know what to look for.
Here is a link to how I found out about my gluten issue: http://ericvandeven.wordpress.com/2011/01/06/the-gloom-of-gluten/

I cut wheat after hearing people with under active thyroids sometimes have difficulty processing it.. I lost 7lbs in first week, 18lbs in first month, most of it was probably water but also lost a whopping 13" off my tummy over those next few months.

I cut all carbs (except fruit and veg) to start with then slowly started re-introducing other carbs (oats, potato, rice) a few times a week and I didn't gain, so I knew they weren't responsible went back off those and tried wheat (regular bread) for a few days and gained 10lbs after 2 days of wheat based breakfast cereal and bread.

Soon as went back to no additional carbs for a week it all dropped straight off and then brought the others back into diet and now eating gluten free bread, rice, non-wheat based cereals and still losing. .. so for me the results speak for themselves so I'll be staying wheat free.

When I started Paleo, I discovered that I was gluten intolerant, because I felt so, so much better! I don't eat wheat anymore. I eat other grains on rare occasions. I feel ten years younger.

There's really no need to argue about it (or base opinions on NOT having read the book, that's just odd). Just try it for 30 days, and see how you feel. If you feel better, keep doing it. If it makes no difference to you, go back to eating wheat. No big deal.

Couldn't have put it better, agree totally!

^^^ This!!!

I just started seeing a nutritionist.I've already lost 58 pounds before talking to her. She wants me to try eating gluten free. I have read alot about how grains are NOT that healthy for us so I will let you know how it goes.

If you aren't a diagnosed celiac then gluten free will just be an unproductive pain in the *kitten*. Get a new nutritionist that will help you with your diet instead of feeding you the latest fad BS.

I agree! Jeez, I feel like the gluten free craze has replaced the Atkins hullabaloo from the late1990s, which replaced the fat free craze of the early 1990s...

You will feel better going gluten free if you have a gluten allergy or gluten intolerance. If you are like me and not bothered by gluten, eliminating it doesn't make a difference at all. I must say, I do love following the diet fads of what the current "evil ingredient" du jour is.

I don't know about the rest of you, but I got fat because I ate too much. Not because I ate a piece of whole grain toast every morning.

I agree with you on that