Josee’s Dad succeeds at Wheat Belly with her coaching and cooking

Josee shared a wonderful story of how she helped her father succeed in following the Wheat Belly lifestyle, important to reduce/eliminate risk for coronary disease: “I wanted to share my father Andre’s progress so far. He’s lost 36 lbs but he still wants to lose another 10 lbs. The ‘before’ picture was taken in July, 2014, but he started cutting carbs and grains in November, 2014. The ‘after’ picture was taken in July, 2015. He’ll be 76 years old in a couple of months and eating the Wheat Belly way has been rewarding in so many ways. He sleeps better, his mood is so much better (a plus for my mom), his joints are not as stiff and his digestion has improved significantly. “He had a quintuple coronary bypass in 1999, but continued his carb-addicted bad habits throughout the years. He had his annual checkup with his cardiologist this week and she was very impressed with the changes and has reduced his medication. “It was not easy convincing him to go against what he had been taught at the hospital and in every article in the ‘health’ section of the newspaper he read following his bypass, i.e. eat whole wheat/grains, low- or no-fat, sugar-free sweetened with aspartame, very low calories, etc. He couldn’t grasp the fact that his doctors could have been wrong, but I just kept bombarding him with your articles and transformations so that he could see for himself. “Since my parents live nearby, I woul...
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