Wheat Belly. William MD Davis

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       COPYRIGHT

      HarperThorsons

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      First published in the USA by Rodale Inc. 2011

      First published in the UK by HarperThorsons 2014

       This edition 2015

      © 2011, 2014 by William Davis, MD

      William Davis asserts his moral right to be identified as the author of this work.

      A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.

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      Source ISBN: 9780007568130

      Ebook Edition © FEBRUARY 2015 ISBN: 9780007568147

      Version: 2015-02-03

       For Dawn, Bill, Lauren and Jacob, my companions on this wheat-free journey

       In order to protect the privacy of patients, some names and personal details have been changed.

      CONTENTS

       Cover

       Title Page

      Copyright

       Dedication

      Foreword

      Introduction

      PART ONE WHEAT: THE UNHEALTHY WHOLE GRAIN

Chapter 1 What Belly?

Chapter 2 Not Your Gran’s Muffins: The Creation of Modern Wheat

Chapter 3 Wheat Deconstructed

PART TWO WHEAT AND ITS HEAD-TO-TOE DESTRUCTION OF HEALTH

Chapter 4 Hey, Man, Wanna Buy Some Exorphins? The Addictive Properties of Wheat

Chapter 5 Your Wheat Belly Is Showing: The Wheat/Obesity Connection

       Chapter 6 Hello, Intestine. It’s Me, Wheat. Wheat and Coeliac Disease

       Chapter 7 Diabetes Nation: Wheat and Insulin Resistance

       Chapter 8 Dropping Acid: Wheat as the Great pH Disrupter

       Chapter 9 Cataracts, Wrinkles and Dowager’s Humps: Wheat and the Ageing Process

       Chapter 10 My Particles Are Bigger Than Yours: Wheat and Heart Disease

       Chapter 11 It’s All in Your Head: Wheat and the Brain

       Chapter 12 Bagel Face: Wheat’s Destructive Effect on the Skin

       PART THREE SAY GOODBYE TO WHEAT

       Chapter 13 Goodbye, Wheat: Create a Healthy, Delicious, Wheat-Free Life

       Epilogue

       Appendix A Looking for Wheat in All the Wrong Places

       Appendix B Healthy Wheat Belly-Shrinking Recipes

       List of Searchable Terms

       Acknowledgements

       References

       About the Publisher

       FOREWORD TO THE PAPERBACK EDITION

      WHEAT BELLY IS not what it used to be.

      In the three years since the original Wheat Belly was published in the US, something astounding and wonderful has happened. What began as an experience in helping people reduce blood sugars, tame inflammation and regain control over appetite has evolved into a nationwide experience of lives transformed on an unprecedented scale. The few thousand people who understood this message in 2011 has now ballooned to the millions, and they are experiencing effortless weight loss and turnarounds in health across a whole spectrum of conditions.

      Within weeks of its initial release, I was flooded with stories from people who, for the first time in years, finally understood why they had struggled with health, weight, appetite and pain – despite doing everything ‘right’. A man named Lucas sent a comment saying that he had tried with little success to get rid of his belly despite what he thought was a healthy diet and active lifestyle. ‘I’ve tried raw, vegan, low-carb, low-fat – and none of them had much effect and all left me with food cravings that never went away. In the month since I started Wheat Belly, I’ve lost 12 pounds,’ said Lucas. ‘The СКАЧАТЬ