Chapattis will soon become EXTINCT
A renowned cardiologist
explains how eliminating wheat can IMPROVE your health.
Cardiologist William
Davis, MD, started his career repairing damaged hearts through angioplasty and
bypass surgeries.
“That’s what I was trained
to do, and at first, that’s what I wanted to do,” he explains. But when his own
mother died of a heart attack in 1995, despite receiving the best cardiac care,
he was forced to face nagging concerns about his profession.
“I’d fix a patient’s
heart, only to see him come back with the same problems. It was just a
band-aid, with the same problems. It was just a band-aid, with no effort to
identify the cause of the disease.”
So he moved his
practice toward highly uncharted medical territory – prevention – and spent the
next 15 years examining the causes of heart disease in his patients.
The resulting
discoveries are revealed in “Wheat Belly”, his New York Times best-selling
book, which attributes many of our physical problems, including heart disease,
diabetes and obesity, to our consumption of wheat. Eliminating wheat can
“transform our lives.”
What
is a “Wheat Belly”?
Wheat raises your blood
sugar dramatically. In fact, two slices of wheat bread raise your blood sugar
more than a Snickers bar.
“When my patients give
up wheat, weight loss was substantial, especially from the abdomen. People can
lose several inches in the first month”. You make connections between wheat and
a host of other health problems.
Eighty percent of my
patients had diabetes or pre-diabetes.
I knew that wheat
spiked blood sugar more than almost anything else, so I said, “Let’s remove
wheat from your diet and see what happens to your blood sugar.” They’d come
back 3 to 6 months later, and their blood sugar would be dramatically reduced. But
they also had all these other reactions:
“I removed wheat and
lost 38 pounds.” Or, “my asthma got so much better, I threw away two of my
inhalers.”
Or “the migraine
headaches I’ve had every day for 20 years stopped within three days.” “My acid
reflux is now gone.”
“My IBS is better, my
ulcerative colitis, my rheumatoid arthritis, my mood, my sleep...” and so on,
and so on”.
When you look at the
makeup of wheat, Amylopectin A, a chemical unique to wheat, is an incredible
trigger of small LDL particles in the blood- the number one cause of heart
disease.
When wheat is removed
from the diet, these small LDL levels plummet by 80 and 90 percent.
Wheat contains high
levels of Gliadin, a protein that actually stimulates appetite. Eating wheat
increases the average person’s calorie intake by 400 calories a day.
Gliadin also has
opiate-like properties which makes it “addictive”. Food scientists have known
this for almost 20 years.
Is eating a wheat-free
diet the same as a gluten-free diet? Gluten is just one component of wheat.
If we took the gluten
out of it, wheat will still be bad since it will still have the Gliadin and the
Amylopectin A, as well as several other undesirable components.
Gluten-free products
are made with 4 basic ingredients: corn starch, rice starch, tapioca starch or
potato starch.
And those 4 dried,
powdered starches are some of the foods that raise blood sugar even higher.
I encourage people to
return to REAL food: fruits, vegetables, nuts and seeds, unpasteurized cheese,
eggs and meats.
Wheat really changed in
the 70s and 80s due to a series of techniques used to increase yield, including
hybridization. It was bred to be shorter and sturdier and also to have more
Gliadin, (a potent appetite stimulant).
The wheat we eat today
is not the wheat that was eaten 100 years ago. If you stop eating
breads/pasta/chapattis every day and start eating rice with chicken and
vegetables, you still lose weight because rice doesn’t have the Amylopectin A
or the Gliadin that stimulates appetite. You won’t have the same increase in
calorie intake that wheat causes.
That’s part of the
reason why foreign cultures that don’t consume wheat tend to be slenderer and
healthier.
Everyone should stop
eating wheat. This is the closest I know of to something that will transform
your life.
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