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To all the readers who have the boldness, courage and conviction to rebel against conventional dietary advice and discover what real nutrition can do for human health
Contents
Copyright
Introduction
Part I: No Grain is a Good Grain: Grazed, Grass-Fed and Fattened
Chapter 1 Liberate Your Inner Cow: Life Ungrained
Chapter 2 Let Them Eat Grass
Chapter 3 The Reign of Grain
Chapter 4 Your Bowels Have Been Fouled: Intestinal Indignities from Grains
Chapter 5 Grains, Brains and Chest Pains
Part II: Living Grainlessly: Restoring the Natural State of Human Life
Chapter 6 Grainless Life: Beginnings
Chapter 7 Grainless Living Day-to-Day
Part III: Be a Grainless Overachiever: The Next Steps to Reclaiming Grain-Free Total Health
Chapter 8 Correct Nutritional Deficiencies Caused by Grains
Chapter 9 Full Recovery from Post-Traumatic Grain Gut Syndrome
Chapter 10 Grainless Metabolic Mastery: Regain Control over Blood Sugar, Cholesterol, Bone Health and Inflammation
Chapter 11 The Annoyed Thyroid: Booby Trap for Weight and Health
Chapter 12 Endocrine Disruption: Trouble in the Gland Scheme of Things
Chapter 13 End the Self-Defeat: Recovering from Autoimmunity
Chapter 14 What If the Weight Doesn’t Come Off?
Chapter 15 Clearer, Smarter, Faster: Grain-Free Performance
Epilogue
Appendix A Recipes for Total Health
Appendix B Grain Pain: Watch Out for Hidden Sources of Grains
Appendix C A Grain-Free Shopping List
Appendix D Resources
Endnotes
List of Searchable Terms
Acknowledgements
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You’ve been grained.
Beaten, demoralized, discouraged, your life and health have been bankrupted by ‘healthy whole grains’. The worst of the bunch is modern wheat: the Judas of dietary ‘wisdom’, despot of the breakfast bowl, tyrant of the bakery cabinet, the semi-dwarf darling of agribusiness. Your eyes were sprouting cataracts, your arteries were stiffening, your skin was wrinkling and plagued with rashes, your joints were sore and arthritic, your organs were inflamed, your belly fat was expanding, your blood sugar was climbing and man breasts may even have been sprouting. Your mind was clouded by fog, your medication list was growing and your schedule was fouled by mad scrambles for the nearest bathroom – all while you were being driven to consume more and more of the food that all official providers of nutritional advice advised you to consume . . . until you put an end to the whole mess as a result of the revelations made in Wheat Belly.
You boldly removed foods that enjoy the blessings of agencies in the business of dispensing dietary advice. You defied the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) and its MyPlate and MyPyramid. You scoffed at the urgings of the Surgeon General’s office. You thumbed your nose at the advice of the American Heart Association, American Diabetes Association, and the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. You sniggered at the antics of the wheat lobby and wheat trade groups as they desperately launched wave after wave of damage control. You removed grains like a festering abscess that refused to heal until lanced, and you discovered that health and vigour began to reappear.
I’ve experienced this personally. When I removed all ‘healthy whole grains’ from my life, it reversed my diabetes until I became confidently nondiabetic, I was freed from mind fog that persisted no matter how many cups of coffee I drank and I found relief from the annoying symptoms of irritable bowel syndrome. My triglyceride level dropped from 350 to 42 mg/dl, my HDL increased from 27 to 97 mg/dl, and the dark thoughts and moods that I had struggled with for many years were simply erased. I did the opposite of widely accepted health advice and experienced a transformation in health.
Coming to the realization that conventional nutritional advice has as much value as old chewing gum stuck on the pavement can’t help but make you sceptical about whether most sources of health advice are objective, unbiased and based on science in the first place. At best, dietary advice was driven by incomplete or misinterpreted data, an army of dietitians and ‘experts’ unwittingly doing the dirty work of distributing the information. At worst, it was advice that served the ambitions of agribusiness and other powerful interests, all working to commoditize the human diet – yes, commoditize, or derive maximal