Wheat Belly

Never heard of it but will look it up...I am reading....The New Atkins, The Metabloism Miracle, 50 Shades of Grey:blushing: ,and Turned. I love reading but sometimes I read to much at one time..:flowerforyou:

Truth. All my evidence is anecdotal, personal experience though. I have not conducted my own scientific research, nor am I nutrition specialist.

I just know what makes sense and what doesn't.

I am watching my carbs so not for me but there is some insight

Totally for real.
Today's wheat is NOT the amber waves of grain it once was.

I think it applies to more than just wheat.
Thinking heirloom veggies versus the mega producers, like super sweet 100 tomatoes. They had to sacrifice something to get them to produce the boatloads of tomates, ya know?

Just makes sense. My doctor told me to read the book because of all my issues. Been trying to go wheat-free for about two weeks. I feel better when i don't eat wheat. Less headaches, less tummy aches (pains, in my case) and even my joints ache less.

This makes so much sense. My Mom has coeilac disease and has to follow a gluten free diet and i did it for a few months as they suspected that i may have it. My belly was as flat as a pancake and i felt so healthy and refreshed all the time!
I'd recommend doing the gluten free diet just for the experience and seeing how much it changes your body from not eating that protein. But i'd look into it first because you can eat literally nothing, and gluten free food is a lot more expensive. well it is over in the UK, about £2 for a small loaf of bread.
According to my Mom's dietitian our body isn't made to tolerate wheat and gluten and that is why we get bloated etc. If I could afford it I would most definitely stick to gluten free diet, but my Mom says as I am at risk of developing it to enjoy everything. There's no more nice take-aways, no burgers, nothing. My Mom is a great cook though so it doesn't really affect us and we don't eat take-aways or junk food because everyone in my house eats the same cooked meals as my Mom other than dinner and breakfast we have our own cereal and bread etc which she cannot have.
She's been diagnosed around 13 years so we've come to adjust to it

Biased yes, true yes. Think about it, why are so many people now having issues with gluetin? Everything is genetically modified now, it makes complete sense that wheat has become completely distorted too.

Taking it out of my diet works for me, that's all I can say.

Biased yes, true yes. Think about it, why are so many people now having issues with gluetin?

Or, we have advanced to the point that we can figure out what is truly going on with our bodies, and have the ability and the luxury to make proper adjustments to our diets. And there is an increase in reporting as such. Where as, back in the day humans ate what they could get regardless if they were allergic to it. If that was wheat, it was eat wheat derivetives or go hungry.

It's like Tornadoes, the reports of tornadoes have exploded over the past 15 years. There really aren't more tornadoes, there's just more people reporting them.

I believe what's written in the book Wheat Belly is true. First of all by my own experience with my body - when I eat wheat I feel horrible - yes aches and pains, but horrible bloating and gas and after I've laid off of it for a while, when I go ahead and eat regular bread I now blow up like a balloon. I also have seen evidence of inflammation, increase in my Rosacea, and of course difficulty in digestion - from wheat in my own body. In addition to that, I find it interesting how the texture of breads has changed so drastically over the years and how tasteless wheat products are. I'm 60 years old so I've been eating wheat for a long time, and what passes for bread, crackers, and other things like that today is nothing like what it used to taste like. Even things like Ritz crackers and graham crackers - the texture has changed drastically and it's nothing like the original product. I attribute this to so much over processing, in addition to the genetically altered wheat products that are used. The processed foods shouldn't even be called food - maybe they should make up a different name for it - like "processed food-product" or something - like they have "processed cheese products" because they've created some weird waxy product and colored it orange and call it cheese. So horrible how much food has changed so much. I honestly believe that's the biggest contributor to the obesity in our country as well - people are hungry and keep eating more and more because what they are eating is fake and their bodies are starving. Yes, I agree with what this very brave man has stated in his book, Wheat Belly - great book that everyone should read.

I have trouble with wheat (still figuring out if it's wheat or gluten) so I tend to avoid it, although sometimes it is difficult. I find sprouted grain breads don't bother me in the same way. Silver Hills or Ezekiel's are both brands I like. However, I still limit that to an occasional thing.

If you were curious whether you had sensitivities, you could always try and elimination diet.

I don't have an opinion on the book, since I haven't read it. I just want to jump in and say that every single food we eat has been genetically modified. Apples, with the exception of crabapples, do not occur in the wild. Nectarines are not natural. Farm cattle are not the same as wild cattle. Heck, the dogs people eat in Korea are domesticated dogs, not wolves. Genetic modification is just a highly sped-up version of the selective breeding that humans have been doing for milennia.

Your statement is not correct, but you're not alone -- a lot of people are mistaken about what GMO actually means.

GMO does NOT equal hybridization.

Genetically modified plants have been modified to withstand heavy-duty pesticides.
GMO crops can be and are sprayed with RoundUp. Which we then eat. Pretty sure I don't want my family ingesting RoundUp.