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f f, lheot is the world's most populor groln but it's olso the most dongerous, triggering overeoting ond t |1f obesity. diobetes, heort diseose, orthritis, ilritoble bowel syndrome, ond mony other il1s, occordlng E ! to cordiologist Williom Dovis, ItlD, outhor of the best-se11ing Wheat Belly: Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight, and Find Your Path Back to Healfh. Whot obout whole or sprouted wheot? They're just os bod, he soys. Here
s
why:
BN: Why is wheat so unhealthy? . W'Dr Wheot todoy hos been crossbred to multlply yleld ond in the process, there hcs been
o
mojor chonge
in o protein colled gliodin, which is o component of gluten. The gliodln in todoy's wheot is o very
powerful stimulont of oppetite,
so much so
thot the
soups, ond condy, for exomple. The wheot is why you hove people eoting o whole bog of Twizzlers.
Neorly
o1l
people who soy "l hove o terrible
sweet tooth," ore reo11y oddicted to wheot thot
stimulotes their desire for sweets. Almost olwoys, people who eliminote wheot lose thot desire ond
typicolperson who consumes wheot eots, on overoge,
their sense of sweetness is omphfied. Things they
belween 44O ctnd 800 more colories per doy.
used to think were tosty ore now so sickeningly sweet, they con't eot them.
BNr
ls this the same problem as
gluten sensitivity?
lff'I!: "The gliadin in today's wheat is
No, gliodin octs os on opiote ond it stimulotes oppetite in people wlth normol digestion of gluten. Howevel most gluten sensitivity is
a
reolly o gliodin sens'itivity. You moy or moy not be sensitive to gluten in its totolity, but you ore likely
appeliie," says Davis, whose book is on Amazon's bestseller list. Visii
sensitive to the gllodin component of gluten. When we eot wheot, the gliodin gets broken down into polypeptides, which ore smoll enough to cross the blood-broin borrier ond bind with
very powerful stimulani of
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certoin opiote receptors. Becouse of the noture of these oplote receptors, gliodin doesn't couse poin
it couses oddiction ond oppetite stimulotion. It's o very, very unique kind of opiote. r"etief or euphorio,
Sl{t What kind of addiction does gliadin cause? WDrAddiction to wheot ond stimulotion of oppetite for corbohydrotes. If I hove wheot, my oppetite is generolly not stimuloted for solmon, but for more wheot ond corbohydrote foods. Wheot is found in mony surprising ploces-frozen entrees,
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WHAT SUPPLEMENTS ANE ESSENTIAI TO
WHAT ARE YOUR
YOUR DAILY REGIMFN?
Sun-dried tomatoes, olives, and eggs.
No wheat, vitamin D, fish oi[, and vitamin C. I take no drugs.
FAVORITE FOODS?
BNr
Do other grains cause similar probtems?
trft/Dr Gliodin is unlque to wheot. However,
rye
hos been crossbred so much with wheot thot
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the problems of wheot ore olso problems of rye.
Other groins, such os mlllet, buckwheot, ond rice, don't contoin gllodin, but these ond other corbohydrotes should be limited for onother reoson. We've creoted o mess by telling people, "Cut your fot, eot o 1ot of heolthy whole groins," ond unleoshed o host of processed corbohydrote junk foods. Two-thirds of Americons ore diobetic or prediobetic ond to reverse thot, you hove to restrict other corbohydrotes os well. Gluten-free flours such os cornstorch, rice storch, pototo storch, ond topioco storch roise blood sugor even more thon wheot, which roises blood sugor more thon toble sugor. In ploce of
wheot flout I recommend nut meols, flox seeds, ond coconut flour, os these don't couse surges in blood sugor thot leod to diobetes.
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IOOD OR BEVERAGT? Wine.
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