Wheat Belly Cookbook: 150 delicious wheat-free recipes for effortless weight loss and optimum health. Dr Davis William
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Название: Wheat Belly Cookbook: 150 delicious wheat-free recipes for effortless weight loss and optimum health
Автор: Dr Davis William
Издательство: HarperCollins
Жанр: Кулинария
isbn: 9780008117658
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Remove wheat gliadin, gluten and lectins from your diet, and gastrointestinal health improves in a number of important ways. The dramatic relief from cramps, discomfort and bowel urgency provided by elimination of wheat, followed by prompt recurrence with re-exposure in the majority of people, is a frequent and consistent phenomenon. In other words, eat wheat and struggle with abdominal cramps and intermittent diarrhoea; eliminate wheat and experience relief for extended periods. Have a re-exposure to wheat products, purposely or inadvertently, and all the cramps, urgency and embarrassment rush back with renewed intensity, only to recede again with stopping wheat – on again, off again, on again, off again. Unfortunately, many in the gastroenterology community deny that these associations exist because they cannot view the destruction at the end of their endoscopes and often ascribe the symptoms to anxiety or depression or dismiss you as nuts and advise an anti-depressant or pill for anxiety. The fact that you can trigger symptoms with exposure and obtain relief with avoidance is sufficient proof to demonstrate a cause-effect relationship, regardless of whether some gastroenterologist ‘approves’ or not.
Among the most common gastrointestinal experiences with wheat elimination are:
• Acid reflux. Also known as reflux oesophagitis, acid reflux improves or disappears in the majority of people within days of stopping wheat. People taking drugs like Prilosec, Pepcid, Protonix, or antacids for years describe relief within 3 to 5 days of saying goodbye to wheat. I’ve witnessed countless people kiss their drugs goodbye after years of dependence with no recurrence of symptoms.
• Irritable bowel syndrome. Characterized by symptoms of excessive gas, cramps and intermittent diarrhoea and constipation, as well as bouts of bowel urgency, irritable bowel syndrome symptoms also disappear in the majority within days of saying goodbye to wheat. The drugs usually prescribed for this condition provide partial relief at best. The dietary strategy for relief – eat no wheat – works like a charm in the majority.
• Improved regularity. Most people find that, minus wheat, bowel regularity is paradoxically improved. I say ‘paradoxically’ because we’ve been told over and over again by healthcare experts and the food industry that wheat products containing plenty of fibre promote regularity. And they do – in wheat-eating individuals. Take away wheat and regularity improves in the majority, even in people with something called obstipation, or severe and unremitting constipation with bowel movements delayed for up to weeks at a time. (An occasional person experiences constipation with wheat elimination, but this situation responds to restoration of bowel flora. See ‘What If My Colon Says, “No Way!”?’ .)
• Reduced symptoms of inflammatory bowel disease. Serious inflammatory bowel conditions – ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s disease – are worsened by wheat consumption and improved with wheat avoidance. I find that the longer an individual with one of these conditions avoids wheat, the greater the relief, with substantial relief developing over extended periods of months or longer. The most common response is marked reduction in symptoms of cramps, diarrhoea and bleeding, though I have witnessed outright cure on several occasions.
I interpret the incredible ubiquity of improved gastrointestinal health with wheat elimination as evidence that this thing called modern wheat was never meant for human consumption.
Caution: If You Have Diabetes . . .
‘There is not a shred of evidence that sugar, per se, has anything to do with getting diabetes’.
Richard Kahn, PhD,
recently retired chief scientific and medical officer, American Diabetes Association
Dr Kahn’s comment echoes conventional thinking on diabetes: Eat all the grains and sweets you want; just be sure to talk to your doctor about diabetes medications.
If you eat foods that increase blood sugar, it increases your need for diabetes medications. If you reduce or eliminate foods that increase blood sugar, then it decreases your need for diabetes medications. The equation for most people with adult, or type 2, diabetes is really that simple.
But several precautions are necessary if you are diabetic and are taking certain diabetes drugs. The potential danger is hypoglycaemia,
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