Lose the Grains, Save Some Green: An excerpt from Wheat Belly Total Health

Here’s an excerpt from the new Wheat Belly Total Health book to be released September 16, 2014. What’s there left to say after the original Wheat Belly knocked the socks off the dietary community with its upsetting revelations? Plenty! Remove this dietary poison, made worse by the shenanigans of agribusiness, and full health does not return right away–more needs to be done. The conversations in Wheat Belly Total Health show you how to take the reins and regain health as fully as possible, even if your health struggles include conditions such as diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis, ulcerative colitis, or failed weight loss. Excerpt: Eliminate grains from your diet and you can achieve optimal health—but overhauling your eating style doesn’t mean emptying your wallet. There’s really nothing intrinsically wrong with grasses. They’re beautiful, swaying in the wind, covering large swaths of the earth. Like other plants, they process carbon dioxide and produce oxygen. Animals eat them. The problem is that our species of primate, Homo sapiens, simply lacks the means to digest them as food. When we try, acute and chronic health pandemonium ensues. When we stop, our health begins to revert back to its natural state. As you set out to remove all grains from your life, examining labels for anything that might contain the seeds of grasses, you will quickly throw your hands up in the air and declare, “This is impossible! Grains are in everything!” Of the 60,00...
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