Can Wheat Belly save you money?

Followers of the Wheat Belly lifestyle often ask: “If I need to buy higher quality food—organic, grass-fed, minimally processed—won’t my grocery budget explode? I can’t afford that on my limited food budget.” We do indeed seek out higher quality foods on the Wheat Belly lifestyle, foods that recreate the high nutrient density of foods that our ancestors consumed as they hunted and foraged in the wild—higher folate, magnesium, phytonutrient, fat content. But, more than likely, you don’t have the time, inclination, or knowledge that would allow you to go out and kill or forage your next meal. So we seek out second best and search for the highest quality foods that we can obtain in an industrialized food setting. Admittedly, such foods cost more. Raising food that is pasture-fed, organic, without the expedients of toxic herbicides/pesticides but rely instead on human love and caring, costs more. So why doesn’t living on the Wheat Belly lifestyle, in which we reject the high-yield, commercialized garbage products of agribusiness, cost us more? Simple: Eliminate gliadin-derived opioid peptides that are potent appetite stimulants and food consumption drops, even though we purposefully do not reduce calories. The gliadin protein of wheat and related grains stimulate appetite, such that people who consume wheat and grains take in 400-800 more calories per day, every day. This is the effect that causes people with a belly-full of p...
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