“Easy” is the Secret to Family Meals: Five Tools I Use
It’s no secret. I’m a fan of family meals. Eating together as a family while sitting around a table (in front of a TV doesn’t count) has been shown to reduce the odds that kids will be overweight, enhance their school performance, brighten their mood and decrease risky behavior. The reasons for these seemingly magical results are partially due to better nutrition but are also influenced by the conversations that naturally happen when a family joins together around a meal.
When I encourage busy moms and dads to make mealtime a family affair, I often get the response, “We want to have family meals, bu...
Source: Conversations with Dr Greene - July 10, 2018 Category: Child Development Authors: Alan Greene MD Tags: Dr. Greene's Blog Family Dinner Family Meal Family Nutrition Source Type: blogs
The next Wheat Belly 10-Day Grain Detox Challenge begins Wed July 18th!
Through my New York Times bestseller, Wheat Belly, millions of people learned how to reverse years of chronic health problems by removing wheat from their daily diets. But, after reading the original Wheat Belly or the Wheat Belly Total Health book, or even using the recipes from the Wheat Belly Cookbook and Wheat Belly 30-Minute Cookbook, people still said: “I’ve read the books, but I’m still not sure how to get started on this lifestyle.”
That’s why I wrote the Wheat Belly 10-Day Grain Detox and now help readers along in this Wheat Belly 10-Day Grain Detox CHALLENGE. This is the quickest, mo...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - July 4, 2018 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: News & Updates Detox gluten-free grain-free Inflammation Weight Loss wheat belly Source Type: blogs
Wheat: Food from hell
Wheat Belly has inspired a number of creative efforts over the years: the wheat belly portrait by artist Lesley Spanos; bread art; the song and video, Wheat Belly Blues, by James Winningham; and an irreverent poem.
We now add this gem of dark poetry from Prodos:
WHEAT – DON’T GET ME STARTED
By Prodos
Oh Prince of Darkness
Your scheme is exposed
Your buns and bread rolls
Shall all be deposed!
The innocent lives
You callously take
Down your serpent of dough
That’s kneaded and baked!
Oh Satan be warned!
Now don’t get me started!
Your croissants and pastries
Are the Hell you’ve imparted
On the feeble of spirit
And th...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - June 16, 2018 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Wheat Belly Lifestyle Dr. Davis Gliadin gluten gluten-free grain-free grains Source Type: blogs
How Do We Review Technologies?
Health sensors, fitness trackers, mHealth apps, genetic tests are the air The Medical Futurist breaths. We test the user experience and write down our independent, honest and objective opinion. We have no connection or other financial interest in any of the companies sending us their products, and we do not have any economic gains out of testing. Read about The Medical Futurist’s review policy in detail!
The chroniclers of health technology
We aim to be the chroniclers of the development of digital health technologies. We analyze plenty of sensors, trackers, wearables, patches, apps or genetic tests – anything that has...
Source: The Medical Futurist - June 2, 2018 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Health Sensors & Trackers digital health future health apps Innovation Medicine personalized review wearables Source Type: blogs
Make your own probiotic yogurt and save money
Probiotics are essential in your Wheat Belly lifestyle, especially in the initial weeks and months of engaging in the program (longer if you have gastrointestinal conditions). They are essential because prior wheat/grain/sugar consumption disrupts composition of bowel flora and restoration to something closer to normal is part of your recovery. While we still have plenty to learn—what species, what combinations of species, inclusion of fungi like Saccharomyces boulardii, which species help control/reverse small intestinal bacterial overgrowth and methanogenic species, etc.—there are unquestioned benefits to tak...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - May 24, 2018 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Wheat Belly Lifestyle gluten-free grain-free grains microbiota prebiotic probiotic reuteri yogurt Source Type: blogs
9 Weird Predictions About The Future of Healthcare
Will you smell the robot in the room? Might documentaries explore the situation of bioprinted human organ transplantations on the black market? Will virtual reality cause a worldwide obesity epidemic? The Medical Futurist shares the weirdest ideas about how healthcare might look a hundred years from now. Or even further down the road. Let’s peek into a dystopic future of healthcare.
Medical mind-games and weird ideas
As The Medical Futurist, my job is to map out current technological trends, to distill the overall paradigm frame in which we are thinking about medicine and healthcare; and based on data, analytics and ca...
Source: The Medical Futurist - May 17, 2018 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Bioethics Future of Medicine 3d printing CRISPR digital gene editing Health Healthcare Innovation robotics Surgery technologies technology virtual reality VR Source Type: blogs
The next Wheat Belly 10-Day Grain Detox Challenge begins Wed May 23rd!
Through my New York Times bestseller, Wheat Belly, millions of people learned how to reverse years of chronic health problems by removing wheat from their daily diets. But, after reading the original Wheat Belly or the Wheat Belly Total Health book, or even using the recipes from the Wheat Belly Cookbook and Wheat Belly 30-Minute Cookbook, people still said: “I’ve read the books, but I’m still not sure how to get started on this lifestyle.”
That’s why I wrote the Wheat Belly 10-Day Grain Detox and now help readers along in this Wheat Belly 10-Day Grain Detox CHALLENGE. This is the quickest, mo...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - May 10, 2018 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Wheat Belly Lifestyle autoimmune bowel flora Detox gluten-free grain-free grains healthcare Inflammation Weight Loss Source Type: blogs
Death by donut
I don’t mean that you will be struck down by simply stepping into a Dunkin’ Donuts. I mean that donuts and others things wheat and grains will substantially abbreviate y0ur life, or at least make your time on earth a lot more miserable.
I’ve been accused of exaggeration to get the no-wheat, no-grain message through. But if you see what I see every day, I think that you would agree: The consumption of wheat and grains is entirely inappropriate for humans; we exchange near-term calories for deterioration of long-term health that takes numerous forms. And when you see lives completely turned around by banish...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - May 9, 2018 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Wheat Belly Lifestyle autoimmune bowel flora diabetes gluten-free grain-free grains Inflammation joint pain undoctored Source Type: blogs
Death by donut
I don’t mean that you will be struck down by simply stepping into a Dunkin’ Donuts. I mean that donuts and others things wheat and grains will substantially abbreviate your life, or at least make your time on earth a lot more miserable.
I’ve been accused of exaggeration to get the no-wheat, no-grain message through. But if you see what I see every day, I think that you would agree: The consumption of wheat and grains is entirely inappropriate for humans; we exchange near-term calories for deterioration of long-term health that takes numerous forms. And when you see lives completely turned around by banish...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - May 9, 2018 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Wheat Belly Lifestyle autoimmune bowel flora diabetes gluten-free grain-free grains Inflammation joint pain undoctored Source Type: blogs
Zero tolerance for low blood pressure
Just as we have zero tolerance for hypoglycemia in the Wheat Belly lifestyle, we also have zero tolerance for hypotension, or low blood pressure (BP).
Follow the Wheat Belly lifestyle free of ciabattas, penne pasta, and tortellini, and blood sugars plummet. If you are injecting insulin or taking other diabetes drugs, hypoglycemia is a risk and can be dangerous, resulting in loss of consciousness and injury. We therefore urge everyone to talk to their doctor about discontinuing or reducing insulin and diabetes drugs immediately upon starting the Wheat Belly lifestyle. Unfortunately, the majority of doctors don’t under...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - May 8, 2018 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Wheat Belly Lifestyle blood pressure blood sugar BP gluten-free grain-free grains health hypertension hypertensive Source Type: blogs
Grain-free baking tips from Gary Miller, founder of Wheat-Free Market
If you are new to grain-free baking, or if you are struggling to get the results you want from your grain-free baking, here are some tips provided by Gary Miller, founder of Wheat-Free Market that develops and sells Wheat Belly-compliant foods:
If you’re like most of us, you didn’t get recipes and tips passed down from Grandma that used the typical ingredients we now use in our grain-free lifestyle. In fact, the majority of us had never really heard of almond flour until a few years ago, and it is very unlikely we had ever actually used it! So we have put together this list of things we have learned tha...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - May 3, 2018 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Wheat Belly Lifestyle baking gluten-free grain-free grain-free baking grains low-carb Wheat-Free Market Source Type: blogs
