Key Ingredient Left Out Of Food Safety Rules
The sign inside my favorite Trader Joe’s announced a recall of raw cashew pieces due to concern over Salmonella. The soup for my dinner party would switch from a cauliflower-cashew to a sweet potato one. Minor inconvenience for me; major one for the food producer and anyone potentially made ill from the contaminant.
Salmonella is a nasty pathogen. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) noted that most people infected with the pathogen will develop diarrhea, fever, and abdominal cramps within 12 to 72 hours. The illness continues for four to seven days. Yet, in some people the infection manifests as reactive...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - February 17, 2016 Category: Health Management Authors: Robin Stombler Tags: Featured Public Health Quality CDC e-coli Food and Health food quality Food Safety Modernization Act Salmonella Source Type: blogs
Valentine Veggie Parties
I often have parents who want my sessions to focus on helping kids learn to eat healthier foods, especially vegetables. On the journey to developing the oral motor skills necessary for biting, chewing and swallowing a variety of vegetables, simply interacting with these foods via food crafts and food play develops a positive relationships with Brussels sprouts, carrots and more. Holidays offer ideal opportunities for food play, especially Valentine’s Day.
From classroom parties to neighborhood get-togethers, Valentine’s Day is traditionally a sugar-fest of red, pink and white candy, frosting and sprinkles. Why n...
Source: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Press Releases - February 2, 2016 Category: Speech Therapy Authors: Melanie Potock MA Tags: Speech-Language Pathology Feeding Disorders Swallowing Disorders Source Type: blogs
Without Any Evidence, CDC Continues to Claim that E-Cigarettes are a Gateway to Youth Smoking
CDC Also Continues to Lie About E-Cigarettes Being Tobacco ProductsBack in 2013, the CDC began to wage a campaign of deception about electronic cigarettes, claiming that e-cigarettes were a gateway to smoking despite the lack of any evidence to support that contention, lying about e-cigarettes containing tobacco, and falsely claiming that Big Tobacco fought the FDA's efforts to regulate e-cigarettes.Despite plenty of opportunity to correct these false statements, the CDC failed to do so. My hope was that things would change in 2016.However, as today's story reveals, things have not changed, and instead, the CDC has brought...
Source: The Rest of the Story: Tobacco News Analysis and Commentary - January 5, 2016 Category: Addiction Source Type: blogs
Keto rice bowl with slow roasted pork belly
I'm writing this post as I'm inhaling said rice bowl. Apparently it's good enough to inspire me to dust off the old blog and forever document it's amazingness on the interwebs. Plus I have an appointment with my Endo in 1 month and I need to be super strict Keto to get my A1c down to a decent number. Goals!! Doing Keto right requires planning. You have to hit your macros if you want stellar results. Usually I'm a lazy ass ketoer , but I'm inspired by the freshness of 2016 to perhaps not be so lazy. We'll see. But this week I have planned out all my meals and one of them is this rice bowl. I love Asian inspired flavors...
Source: the beautiful diabetic - January 2, 2016 Category: Nutrition Authors: Kathryn Source Type: blogs
Wheat Belly Holiday Swaps
Yes, you can have pumpkin pie!
Some people worry that, by following the Wheat Belly lifestyle, they will have to suffer through a Thanksgiving dinner of dry turkey meat and lettuce leaves and miss out on all the traditional tasty dishes. But that is simply not true. You can enjoy a glorious, delicious, and healthy Thanksgiving dinner while living the Wheat Belly lifestyle. But, in order to preserve your health and not gain, say, 3 pounds from the holiday, there are some easy swaps you can use to replace unhealthy holiday staples with a healthy and Wheat Belly-compatible alternative.
So here is a list of easy swaps to make ...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - December 24, 2015 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Wheat Belly Lifestyle eating gluten grains holiday Thanksgiving Source Type: blogs
No folate fortification for the grain-free
Advocates of wheat and grain consumption claim that multiple nutritional deficiencies will develop if we eliminate them from our diet. Not true. Let’s explore this question.
Folates are a B vitamin necessary for multiple cell processes, including assembly of DNA and RNA. Folates are therefore especially necessary during pregnancy, as the fetus requires this nutrient to assemble and grow its own genetic code.
The Recommended Daily Allowance (RDA) for folates and folic acid, which are lumped together as Dietary Folate Equivalents, is 400 mcg per day in adults (male and female), 600 mcg per day in pregnant females. (1 ...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - December 22, 2015 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Wheat Belly Lifestyle folates gluten grains vitamins Source Type: blogs
Wheat Belly Thanksgiving swaps
Yes, you can have pumpkin pie!
Some people worry that, by following the Wheat Belly lifestyle, they will have to suffer through a Thanksgiving dinner of dry turkey meat and lettuce leaves and miss out on all the traditional tasty dishes. But that is simply not true. You can enjoy a glorious, delicious, and healthy Thanksgiving dinner while living the Wheat Belly lifestyle. But, in order to preserve your health and not gain, say, 3 pounds from the holiday, there are some easy swaps you can use to replace unhealthy holiday staples with a healthy and Wheat Belly-compatible alternative.
So here is a list of easy swaps to make ...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - November 25, 2015 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Wheat Belly Success Stories eating gluten grains holiday Thanksgiving Source Type: blogs
Foods made for dippin’
Wheat Belly Chili Sesame Seed Crackers
Dipping foods into various dips and sauces surely ranks among the favorite ways to enjoy food: dipping chips into salsa, crackers into cheese, shrimp into cocktail sauce, etc.
So how do we go about resuming our dipping habits sans wheat and grains? Here are some ideas for foods to use for dipping, healthy choices that contain no wheat or grains and provide limited exposure to carbohydrates, while remaining otherwise healthy. And coming soon: What to dip into–the part that really helps spice things up.
Sliced veggies:
Asparagus stalks, steamed, roasted, or grilled
Bell peppers, r...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - November 7, 2015 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Wheat Belly Lifestyle crackers dipping dips gluten grains Source Type: blogs
Shopping List – Wheat Belly 10-Day Grain Detox
The countdown is on! Only a few days until Wheat Belly 10-Day Grain Detox is in bookstores all over the US.
If you’ve preordered, you can get ready for success! Here’s the shopping list of commonly used ingredients that will get you off the ground running with the day-by-day menu plan in the Wheat Belly 10-Day Grain Detox!
Almond meal/flour
Almond milk, unsweetened
Baking powder (aluminum-free)
Baking soda
Cauliflower
Cheeses (preferably full-fat, organic)
Chia seeds
Chocolate—100% chocolate, 85% cocoa or greater
Chocolate chips, dark
Cocoa powder, unsweetened
Coconut flour
Coconut milk—canned for thickness...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - November 2, 2015 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: News & Updates Source Type: blogs
Chicken Curry with Lentils (for GOS prebiotics)
In line with our discussions about cultivating healthy bowel flora with prebiotic fibers, we have been contemplating whether enriching the lifestyle with the galacto-oligosaccharide, or GOS, variety of fibers in particular is a healthy practice. If you choose to do so, you could purchase (exceptionally expensive) products available commercially, or you could simply add small servings (1/4 to 1/2 cup) of GOS-rich foods such as lentils or chickpeas/hummus.
Here is a recipe taken from the original Wheat Belly Cookbook but tweaked to include lentils. The original recipe was ultra low-carb with 3 grams net carbs per serving (5...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - September 9, 2015 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Recipes Wheat Belly Lifestyle bowel flora gluten grains lentils microbiota prebiotics resistant starch Source Type: blogs
Food from Different Worlds—Finding Foods that Nourish and Heal Across Cultures
When I was a college freshman starting life on campus, I found the food available in our college cafeteria very confusing. Though ranked among the most diverse and delicious offerings, many times, I would walk through and find myself still with an empty plate. I could not find anything to eat. I had grown up on non-typical food, lots of roots and tubers, legumes and pulses, kale before it became a dietary hit, and lots of plain old water. Now I was part of a place that had fun theme food nights, and I could not find something that resembled my normal diet. Where I should have been thrilled, I was feeling tense, and very hu...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - September 1, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Access Food Nutrition Source Type: blogs
Foods that Nourish, Replenish and Repair
The food we eat serves many purposes. It satisfies a primal need to fuel our bodies and quell hunger. It connects us to family and friends in lovely ways, during the holidays, in social situations and at the nightly dinner table. It encourages us to be creative, to try new things, explore different cultures, and savor interesting tastes. And it comforts us, at least temporarily, when we are lonely, sad, anxious or otherwise spent.
Food has another very important purpose: it cleanses, repairs, replenishes our body at the most basic cellular level. In fact, the latest research from the field of nutrigenomics[1], reve...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - August 25, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Nutrition Source Type: blogs
Wheat and hunger
Pauline read the recent Wheat Belly Blog post, the Top 5 Reasons You Still Have Cravings and shared her perspective:
“Everything you say is true, Dr. Davis. I’ve been following your advice for the last 18 months and it’s taken this long to get my gut right.
“I always know when I’ve inadvertently eaten something containing wheat, generally when I’m eating out with friends. It’s an almost instantaneous increase in hunger, making me go looking for something carb/sugary to eat a few hours later. It also causes gut and joint pain that comes within 24 hours.
“Other than that, I can go all day withou...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - August 15, 2015 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Wheat Belly Lifestyle cravings Gliadin gluten grains hunger Source Type: blogs
Wheat, wheat everywhere
If you’ve already begun your Wheat Belly adventure, you know that wheat is a ubiquitous ingredient in processed foods, found in everything from salad dressing to licorice. Wheat, along with corn, can be found in virtually every processed food on supermarket shelves, cheap, tasty filler that provides the appearance of bulk and value.
In our quest to banish all things wheat and grain from our lives, you don’t need me to tell you that there are obvious sources of wheat: breads, rolls, pancake mix, wraps, pretzels, crackers, pies, cakes, muffins, breakfast cereals, breadcrumbs, bagels, muffins, ramen noodles, past...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - August 10, 2015 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Wheat Belly Lifestyle gluten grain re-exposure grains Inflammation Weight Loss Source Type: blogs
Grain-Free Sushi: A guest post from nutritionist Julie Daniluk
Nutritionist, author, and friend, Julie Daniluk from Toronto, provided one of her many wonderful grain-free, low-carb recipes to me, this one for sushi. My mom was Japanese and, boy, could she make some fabulous sushi. As we banish, or at least sharply minimize, rice exposure (due to presence of the wheat germ agglutinin protein, identical to that occurring in wheat, rye, and barley, highly-digestible amylopectin starch, and arsenic), a bit of delicious and nostalgic futomaki would indeed be a treat!
Julie has a moving and powerful personal story of recovery from severe gastrointestinal illness, a journey she accomplished...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - January 4, 2015 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Recipes gluten-free grains sushi Source Type: blogs
