5 More Common Wheat Belly Mistakes

I’ve talked previously about the 7 Common Mistakes people make when they first start out on the Wheat Belly lifestyle, such as eating gluten-free foods or continuing to avoid fat. Make just one of these mistakes and it can impair your weight loss and health-regaining success. Set it right and wonderful things can happen. There are, however, several additional landmines that can explode in your path and deprive you of the kinds of extravagant successes you see on the Wheat Belly Facebook page. Among the additional common mistakes people make are: Continuing to consume soft drinks sweetened with aspartame–Big mistake. We now know that aspartame (as well as saccharine and sucralose) alter bowel flora in such a way that it causes weight gain and type 2 diabetes, even though aspartame itself contains no calories. This explains, for instance, why people who consume diet soft drinks sweetened with aspartame are more overweight than people who drink sugar-sweetened soft drinks. (Please do NOT interpret this to mean that sugar is therefore good. Remember: Less bad is NOT necessarily good—learn from the blunders of conventional dietary thinkers and dietitians.) Heating prebiotic fibers–We include prebiotic fibers in the Wheat Belly, as well as Undoctored, lifestyles because they nourish bowel flora. Getting bowel flora back in working order is a huge advantage in numerous aspects of health. However, most prebiotic fibers break down into sugar upon heating. A me...
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