The Wheat Belly 10-Day Detox: The effortless health and weight-loss solution. Dr Davis William
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To all the readers who have come to understand that health begins with personal effort, not with doctors, drugs, or the “health care” system.
CONTENTS
COPYRIGHT
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER 1: You’ve Been Rolled, Tossed, and Baked
CHAPTER 2: Your 10 Days Start NOW
CHAPTER 3: Overcome the Addiction: Successfully Surviving Detoxification and Withdrawal
CHAPTER 4: A Sucker Punch to the Wheat Belly
CHAPTER 5: Wheat Belly 10-Day Detox: Eat Your Way Back to Health with This 10-Day Menu Plan
CHAPTER 6: Wheat Belly 10-Day Detox Secret Sauce: Fat Blasters, Snacks, and Healthy Waters
CHAPTER 7: The Wheat Belly Family Detox: Secret Weapons to Convert Your Family to This Lifestyle
CHAPTER 8: Beyond the Grains: Additional Important Health Situations You Should Know About
CHAPTER 9: After the Detox: Grain-Free and Reborn
APPENDIX A: WHEAT BELLY DETOX SHOPPING LIST
APPENDIX B: ADDITIONAL RESOURCES
LIST OF SEARCHABLE TERMS
RECIPE INDEX
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
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WHAT IF I could provide you with a miraculous pill that caused dramatic weight loss without limiting calories or requiring exercise? What if this pill reduced appetite, shrunk belly fat, dropped your dress size into the single digits, and accomplished all this while sparing you from a Biggest Loser sobfest? What if that same pill freed you from acid reflux, heartburn, bowel urgency, and diarrhea, but also improved mood, increased energy, deepened sleep, and reduced or eliminated joint pain? What if this pill also reversed skin conditions such as seborrhea, eczema, psoriasis, acne, and dandruff and earned you compliments on the smoothness of your skin? What if chronic sinus congestion, sinus infections, and asthma were brought to a halt and you were freed from the repeated need for antibiotics and inhalers? What if that same little pill, taken every day, reversed serious inflammatory conditions such as rheumatoid arthritis, Crohn’s disease, and ulcerative colitis, while causing your teenage children to put down their cell phones, be respectful, bathe without asking every day, and pick up their own clothes?
Okay, forget the part about teenagers. But what if this single pill could also replace cholesterol drugs, blood pressure drugs, diabetes drugs, anti-inflammatory drugs, antidepressants, and acid reflux drugs while reducing cholesterol values, blood sugars, and inflammation—packing the power of dozens of prescription medications into one pill but with none of the side effects? And what if this same powerful pill not only made you feel better than you have in years but also had the potential to achieve a physical makeover that made you look 10, even 20, years younger without Botox, filler injections, or marriage to Kanye West, without unwanted health consequences but still the unmitigated envy at your 20-, 30-, or 40-year high school reunion?
And, unlike a fistful of daily pills costing hundreds of dollars every month, often adding up to more than your grocery bill, this one pill is inexpensive, even yielding cost savings—money you can put toward a new wardrobe.
Does such a miraculous pill exist that accomplishes this entire list of health and weight benefits at virtually no cost?
No, it does not. If someone told you it did, it would be a blatant instance of “too good to be true.” There is certainly no such magical pill among the thousands of prescription drugs available. Prescription weight-loss drugs that yield billions of dollars per year for the drug industry come with a long list of potential side effects, from diarrhea to damaged heart valves, not to mention the return of the weight when you stop taking the drugs. Anti-inflammatory drugs commonly cause bleeding stomach ulcers, fluid retention, hypertension, and weight gain. Cholesterol-reducing drugs increase risk for diabetes, impair memory, and can cause muscle aches and weakness, making it difficult to even get in or out of a car. Drugs for erectile dysfunction can cause blindness, and in my view an unjustifiable dent in the wallet, and bad TV commercials.
A perfect drug to achieve even one of the benefits listed—let alone the entire list—simply does not exist, despite the extraordinary sums spent to promote them. Likewise, nutritional supplements: As much as I adore nutritional supplements for their power to achieve goals in health, there is no single supplement (nor list of supplements) that can achieve this entire list of benefits. Not even close.
But it does exist, not as a pill, but as a change in lifestyle, a simple collection of health strategies that can achieve all the benefits in the above list. Too good to be true? Hardly.
By far the most powerful factor in this lifestyle that gets the entire process started is to eliminate all foods made of wheat and grains—yes, the foods you were told to eat more of, told should dominate all meals from breakfast and lunch to dinner and snacks. The foods you were told to consume many times per day every day, the widest part of the food pyramid, the largest slice of the food plate, the darling of all conventional dietary advice and agribusiness. These are the foods that most weigh you down and ravage your health, worse than the “friend” who booby-traps your every move.
The worst dietary advice ever conceived tells you to reduce fat, eat more “healthy whole grains,” and eat everything in moderation. Following this advice does not make you thinner and does not reverse health conditions, but only causes them or makes them worse. Removing wheat and grains from your life yields such outsized and unexpected health and weight benefits that it seems impossible, until you witness it day after day and