Kay’s food addictions . . . gone

Kay shared her Wheat Belly experience over her first 4 weeks: “After over 30 years of battling food addiction and morbid obesity, I had just about given up. You name it, I have tried it, even lap-band surgery which worked temporarily but, of course, did not solve the problem. “Now, for the first time in my life, I am not struggling with food: I am not craving, obsessing, or even really thinking about food. I’ve been doing Wheat Belly about a month and am down about 20 pounds, but the most striking thing is that my desire to eat compulsively is GONE. I am utterly stunned by this. “I can’t begin to express how huge it is for me and what a profound effect this way of eating is already having on my life. In addition, I’ve never done a food regimen that is so easy and manageable that I could see doing it for the rest of my life. Dr. Davis, thank you for your incredible, life-saving work.” Kay understands just how powerful an appetite-stimulant wheat and grains can be, creating obsessive, 24-hours-a-day cravings, always struggling to hold back the floodgates of excessive food consumption. People blame themselves for lack of willpower or weakness of character. But it’s really—for many people—nothing more than, like high blood sugar, an effect of consuming wheat and grains. Kay’s experience reveals a basic truth about wheat and related grains: They act as opiates. (From here on, when I say “wheat” I real...
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