Wheat Belly Dairy-Free Irish Cream
This is an adults-only treat!
If you are a fan of the Irish Cream served as a liqueur or splashed over ice cream or other desserts, this is how you make a healthy version rich with all the flavor but with none of the sugar. I provide the dairy-free version here. Replace the coconut milk with an equivalent quantity of cream or half-and-half for a dairy version.
I’ve made this many times and presented as a gift in a decorative glass bottle, perfect for the holidays. Optionally, top with shaved dark chocolate or a stick of cinnamon. For an alcohol-free version, leave out the rum.
Makes approximately 2 cups
3 eggs
1 14-ounce...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - December 19, 2015 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Recipes coconut dairy-free gluten grains wheat 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
Peanut Butter Cup Detox Shake
This version of a Detox Shake is your way to get a healthy peanut butter cup in a glass!
In my new book, Wheat Belly 10-Day Grain Detox, I introduce recipes for quick and easy Detox Shakes that make incorporating prebiotic fibers into your daily routine a snap. Prebiotic fibers are crucial for restoration of bowel health and bowel flora, even yielding improvements in metabolic measures like blood sugar and blood pressure, while also adding to mental and emotional health and bowel regularity. You will therefore find several recipes for Detox Shakes in the 10-Day Grain Detox book.
Here is a recipe for a Detox Shake that uses...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - October 17, 2015 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Wheat Belly Lifestyle abdominal bowel flora detox shake detoxification gluten grains metabolic microbiota prebiotic probiotic withdrawal Source Type: blogs
Are natural products as good as drug store brands? Episode 102
Is this natural product as good as a drug store brand?
Gemma asks (in the Beauty Brains Forum)…It seems as though you guys aren’t the biggest fans of “natural” and “organic” cosmetics, but there seems to be a wider offering of lines at places like Whole Foods, Sprouts, and Erewhon. Lines like Andalou Naturals, Avalon Organics, MyChelle, and Dr. Hauschka. These are quite a bit more expensive than their drugstore counterparts and I’ve barely tried any of them. My question is, is there anything in these products that are as effective as the ones at the drugstore? They are chock-full of oi...
Source: thebeautybrains.com - September 29, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Perry RomanowskiDiscover the beauty and cosmetic products you should use and avoid Source Type: blogs
Chocolate Coated Green Banana Bites
Green, unripe bananas are an excellent source of prebiotic fibers that are crucial for your bowel flora management program. But they are tough to eat due to their chalky texture when truly unripe. You can conceal that texture by including a green banana in your smoothie or shake, or you can make these simple but tasty little Chocolate Coated Green Banana Bites. If each banana is cut into 6 pieces, each Bite can yield as much as 4-5 grams of prebiotic fibers to add to your daily goal of 20 grams per day.
Purchase bananas as green as possible and store in the refrigerator, where they will stay green for around 5 days. Once ...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - September 3, 2015 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Recipes bowel flora gluten grains Inflammation microbiota prebiotic fibers resistant starch wheat 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
Spiced Raw Potato Smoothie
Here’s another excerpt from Wheat Belly Total Health, a recipe for Spiced Raw Potato Smoothie.
Recall that we treat critically important bowel flora as a garden in which you plant “seeds”–probiotics and fermented foods containing healthy bacterial species–then nourish them with prebiotic fibers/resistant starches to allow desired species to proliferate and out-muscle undesirable species. A raw white potato is a wonderful source of such fibers. While some people enjoy eating raw potatoes like an apple, many do not and struggle with ways to incorporate them into daily habits. Here is a very eas...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - August 4, 2015 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Wheat Belly Lifestyle bowel flora potato prebiotic fiber resistant starch Source Type: blogs
Study on Potential Toxicity of E-Cigarette Flavorings Produces Unwarranted Scare
A study published in the journal Tobacco Control this past April has produced an unwarranted scare about the potential toxicity of the flavorings in electronic cigarettes.(See: Tierney PA, et al. Flavour chemicals in electronic cigarette fluids. Tobacco Control. Published online ahead of print on April 15, 2015. DOI: 0.1136/tobaccocontrol-2014-052175.)The study used gas chromatography/mass spectrometry to analyze the chemical constituents in e-liquids of various flavors. It appears that 30 different e-liquid flavors were tested. Multiple flavors of two brands of disposable e-cigarettes (Blu and NJOY) were tested along with...
Source: The Rest of the Story: Tobacco News Analysis and Commentary - July 16, 2015 Category: Addiction Source Type: blogs
Are ceramides good anti-aging ingredients? Episode 77
This study was done on mice.)
A Japanese study shows that plant-derived ceramides improve skin moisture better than a placebo.
The Kao Corporation published a study showing that a cream containing 8% of Ceramide E improves water content of skin and symptoms of atopic dermatitis. But, ceramide cream wasn’t compared to any other product. So the test had no control and it wasn’t blinded. By the way, this 8% concentration shows up in a couple of studies and it’s MUCH higher than the typical use level of ceramides which is a few tenths of a percent.
According to the Textbook of Cosmetic Dermatology, certain ceramide combi...
Source: thebeautybrains.com - April 7, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Perry RomanowskiDiscover the beauty and cosmetic products you should use and avoid Source Type: blogs
The Best Cocoa for Managing Diabetes
Did you know that chocolate can reduce insulin resistance and improve memory? The good nutrients in chocolate are flavanols, as I wrote at “Cocoa Cuts Diabetes Insulin Resistance.”
Last week, I reviewed new research, the full text of which is free online at “Cocoa flavanol consumption.” This was a randomized double-blind study of 90 people who for eight weeks consumed either 48 mg, 520 mg, or 993 mg of... (Source: David Mendosa's SharePosts)
Source: David Mendosa's SharePosts - April 1, 2015 Category: Endocrinology Authors: David Mendosa Source Type: blogs
Cocoa Cuts Diabetes Insulin Resistance
Several studies show that eating chocolate can reduce our insulin resistance, which is why we get type 2 diabetes in the first place. But not just any chocolate candy will cut it.
Cocoa Pods in Different Stages of Ripening
We extract chocolate from cocoa beans, which for good reason carries the scientific name meaning “food of the gods.” The Aztecs saw it as a sacred plant, reserving it for their... (Source: David Mendosa's SharePosts)
Source: David Mendosa's SharePosts - March 30, 2015 Category: Endocrinology Authors: David Mendosa Source Type: blogs
What is Cupuacu?
Clara asks…What can you tell us about Cupuacu and the best place to buy it?
The Beauty Brains respond
Cupuacu is a tropical fruit (or is it a nut?) that is similar to the cacao nut (or is it fruit?) According to those in the know, Cupauacu smells like a cross between chocolate and pineapple and tastes like pear mixed with banana. The pulp is rich in fatty materials (similar to cocoa butter) that make it an excellent moisturizer. In addition, research has shown that the seeds contain no less than nine known antioxidants (warning this list of chemical names may make your head spin just a little bit):
“(+)-catechin, ...
Source: thebeautybrains.com - February 27, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Randy Schueller Source Type: blogs
Leslie T.
I was at a crossroads in my health situation. At 55 years old, I was still able to perform my daily tasks, including caregiving for a head injured foster son who is large. At night though, I could not sleep due to acid reflux, night sweats, anxiety, joint pain, and just general discomfort. I was cranky and angry because of my insulin resistance. My mood swings had my family in discord.
In 1989, I had a surgery on an artery in my leg. Doctors told me then that I had an autoimmune disease that affected my tissues. This disease would sometimes flare up and cause extreme bruising. I was foggy minded and my nose ran all the ti...
Source: Renegade Neurologist - A Blog by David Perlmutter, MD, FACN - January 28, 2015 Category: Neurologists Authors: gbadmin Tags: Success Fatigue weight loss Source Type: blogs
Celebrate the New Year With These Recipes!
Here are a two Wheat Belly recipes that you can enjoy for your New Year holiday!
Anyone new to the Wheat Belly discussion: Choose the most benign sweeteners such as pure powdered or liquid stevia; monk fruit; erythritol; Wheat-Free Market sweetener; Swerve; Truvia. We avoid sugar, agave nectar, coconut sugar, or other fructose-containing sweeteners.
Irish Cream
This is an adults-only treat!
If you are a fan of the Irish Cream served as a liqueur or splashed over ice cream or other desserts, this is how you make a healthy version rich with all the flavor but with none of the sugar. I provide the dairy-free version here. ...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - December 31, 2014 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Recipes gluten gluten free wheat Source Type: blogs
Two more cases of hype in glamour journals: magnets, cocoa and memory
This study was promoted by the Northwestern University "Electric current to brain boosts memory". And Science tweeted along the same lines.
Science‘s link did not lead to the paper, but rather to a puff piece, "Rebooting memory with magnets". Again all the emphasis was on memory, with the usual entirely speculative stuff about helping Alzheimer’s disease. But the paper itself was behind Science‘s paywall. You couldn’t read it unless your employer subscribed to Science.
All the publicity led to much retweeting and a big altmetrics score. Given that the paper was...
Source: DC's goodscience - November 2, 2014 Category: Science Authors: David Colquhoun Tags: Academia altmetrics Alzheimer's Bad journalism badscience false discovery rate public engagement Public relations Public understanding publishing randomisation randomization RCT science communication cocoa false positives h Source Type: blogs
