Hot and Spicy Nut Mix
Have a glass of water nearby when you eat these nuts. Pack this Hot and Spicy Nut Mix from the Wheat Belly 10-Day Grain Detox in a resealable plastic bag or plastic container and take it along with you when you travel. It’s certainly tastier and a lot less expensive than the nuts sold at airports or other travel shops. If making it for the kids, add cashew fragments to your choice of nuts. (Adult versions should avoid cashews or minimize them due to potentially excessive carbohydrate exposure.)
If you start with whole nuts, you can reduce them to smaller pieces in your food chopper, food processor, or coffee grinder ...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - October 18, 2015 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Source Type: blogs
Jumbo Gingerbread Nut Muffin Recipe
At first glance, these tasty Gingerbread Nut muffins from the Wheat Belly 10-Day Grain Detox may not seem sufficient to stand alone as lunch, but once you try these jumbo-size, nut- and oil- rich muffins, you will appreciate how filling they are. And, because they are made with eggs, coconut oil, almonds, and other nuts and seeds, they are also very healthy. You can also add a schmear of cream cheese or a bit of unsweetened fruit butter for extra flavor. To fill out a lunch, add a chunk of cheese, some fresh berries or sliced fruit, or an avocado.
As with any Wheat Belly recipe in which one of our benign sweeteners is use...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - September 25, 2015 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Source Type: blogs
In pursuit of sweetness: an updated list of Wheat Belly safe sweeteners
In our wheat-free lifestyle, having an occasional sweet indulgence can be nice. Recipes such as cheesecake or cookies, for instance, require some amount of sweetener. So how can we choose our sweeteners and minimize adverse physiologic consequences? Understanding the use of these benign sweeteners can be especially helpful for holiday cooking, entertaining family and friends, keeping the kids happy, as well as for enjoying an occasional indulgence. (Surely you’ve tried my Pecan Streusel Coffee Cake!)
Choose sucrose (common table sugar) and we are exposed to the 50% fructose contained in the glucose:fructose molecule....
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - July 10, 2015 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Wheat Belly Lifestyle erythritol glycemic grains monkfruit safe sweeteners stevia sugars Weight Loss xylitol Source Type: blogs
Late Night Dinner at Five & Ten in Athens, Georgia
At first, I was really, really upset that my flight to Atlanta was delayed, making us miss our 8:30 dinner reservation at Five & Ten in Athens, Georgia.
This was no ordinary dinner reservation. My brother Joe and wife Rachel had arranged a special tasting meal for us with Five & Ten’s executive chef, Jason Zygmont, who they originally met when Joe stopped into the kitchen one day last year unannounced to borrow preserving salt for some charcuterie he was making. Joe returned a few weeks later to give Jason some of the duck proscuitto he had cured, expecting to quickly drop it off with the busy chef...
Source: The Blog That Ate Manhattan - May 5, 2015 Category: Primary Care Authors: Margaret Polaneczky, MD Tags: Restaurant Reviews Travel Athens Georgia FIVE & TEN Hugh Acheson JAson Zygmont Source Type: blogs
Wheat Belly meals and flours for baking
So you kiss all things wheat and grains goodbye. And you’ve come to learn that gluten-free foods made with replacement flours like cornstarch, tapioca starch, potato flour, and rice starch are also very destructive, since they make visceral fat grow, send blood sugar through the roof, and contribute to diabetes, hypertension, heart disease, cancer, and dementia. (If these gluten-free food manufacturers persist in pushing gluten-free foods made with these awful ingredients, I’m going to have to write a new book: “Gluten-Free . . . Fat, and Diabetic“!)
But perhaps you’d sure like a few muffins o...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - March 13, 2015 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Wheat Belly Lifestyle baking cakes cupcakes gluten grain-free baking grains muffins scones Source Type: blogs
Blood test results 2014
After over a year with no tests, I decided to subject myself to the needle again and have my blood analyzed.
The good news: no change
The tests show no signs of kidney function degradation. Serum creatinine is 2.0mg/dL, exactly what it was when I was diagnosed with Chronic Kidney Disease over five years ago. All other parameters are pretty consistent with the results obtained over the last five years and are within, or close to, the normal healthy range.
This either means that:a) My hard work watching my diet and trying to live a healthy life is paying off and protecting my kidneys from further damage, or,b) None of my lif...
Source: All Kidney News - September 3, 2014 Category: Urology & Nephrology Authors: admin Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
Horrific and Heartbreaking Encounter…
I was just down at the tracks a moment ago when I heard a train coming. It was about at Huguley when I first heard its horn blaring. It would be here in about 15 minutes. I readied my camera and lost interest in the switcher engine and crew who were gathering demolition debris cars for pickup on the mainline. Then it happened. Out of the Pecan grove by the tracks came one momma deer and her fawn. Just then, the fast freight of auto racks rounded the super elevated curve far down the tracks. I could see the train signal turn red in warning. Momma and fawn stepped out on the tracks. “MO...
Source: The 4th Avenue Blues - August 31, 2014 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Andrew Quixote Source Type: blogs
What Happens When Patients Won't Take Meds?
You're here reading Shrink Rap, so you may think this is a post about patients who refuse to take psychiatric medications, and non-compliance with psychiatric medications gets to be it's own issue. So it caught my attention when Dr. Albert Fuchs tweeted that he was interviewed by NPR about "What happens when patients won't take medicines." Dr. Fuchs is a primary care doc with a concierge practice in Beverly Hills, so I wanted to hear what he had to say, and I invested 6 minutes of my life in listening to his NPR talk -- you may want to go to the website and listen as well. He makes a good point about bein...
Source: Shrink Rap - August 18, 2014 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Dinah Source Type: blogs
Wheat Belly Holiday Recipes 2
Now for the desserts!
Here are recipes for Pumpkin Pie, Apple Cranberry Crumble, and Pumpkin Spice Muffins.
Remember: By taking out wheat and other grains, not resorting to gluten-free junk carbohydrate replacements, not adding sugar or high-fructose corn syrup, limiting net carbohydrate content and not using other problem ingredients, we now have healthy desserts that do not pack on the pounds, screw with blood sugar, mess with satiety signals, or exert inflammatory effects.
Have your Apple Cranberry Crumble or Pumpkin Spice Muffin and suffer not a moment of guilt! And I think they’re pretty darned tasty, too.
Happ...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - June 30, 2014 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Source Type: blogs
Strawberry Cream Pie
Strawberries and cream in a pie!
As with nearly all Wheat Belly snack and dessert recipes, you could get away with eating a slice or two of this pie as a meal, given its dense nutrient content and lack of problem ingredients.
Strawberry Cream Pie Print Author: Dr. William Davis Recipe type: Dessert Serves: 8 Ingredients Crust: 1½ cups pecan, walnut, or almond meal 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon ½ teaspoon salt 4 ounces butter, melted 1 egg Cream filling: 8 ounces cream cheese, room temperature 8 ounces sour cream Sweetener equivalent to ½ cup sugar 1 teaspoon vanilla extract Gelatin topping: 1½ cups wa...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - May 5, 2014 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Source Type: blogs
Melissa’s No-Bake Strawberry Cheesecake
Here’s a beautifully simple and tasty recipe, courtesy of wheat-free champion, Melissa, of the Satisfying Eats blog. Melissa has her own jaw-dropping wheat-free success story to tell, including losing 58 pounds and finding relief from a number of health conditions.
No-bake strawberry cheesecake
There’s only a few minutes and a few simple ingredients between you and having this cheesecake!
Serves 4
4 ounces cream cheese, softened
¼ cup heavy whipping cream
¼ cup Greek yogurt (or sour cream)
½ teaspoon vanilla extract
Sweetener equ...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - April 7, 2014 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Recipes Source Type: blogs
Pharmalot... Pharmalittle... Good Morning
Hello, everyone, and how are you today? Once again, a shiny sun is hovering over the freezing cold Pharmalot corporate campus, which we hope will soon warm up enough so we may effectively tackle our to-do list. To help us along - you guessed it - we are brewing another cup of steaming hot stimulation. Our flavor is Southern Pecan, if you care. In any event, time to get cracking. So here are some tidbits. Hope your day goes well and be in touch...
Novartis CEO Envisions Tiered Pricing Plans For Africa (This Is Africa)
FDA Approves First Generic Of Cymbalta Antidepresssant (Associated Press)
Roche Signs Deal Worth Up To $600...
Source: Pharmalot - December 12, 2013 Category: Pharma Commentators Authors: esilverman Source Type: blogs
Great article from NY Times on the benefits of snacking on nuts
well.blogs.nytimes.com Snacking Your Way to Better Health by JANE E. BRODY Dec. 9, 2013 original Jane Brody on health and aging. Nuts to you! No, that's not an insult. It's a recommendation to add nuts to your diet for the sake of your health and longevity. Consistent evidence for the health benefits of nuts has been accumulating since the early 1990s. Frequent nut consumption has been linked to a reduced risk of major chronic diseases, including heart and blood vessel disorders and Type 2 diabetes. The newest and most convincing findings, report...
Source: Dr Portnay - December 10, 2013 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr Portnay Source Type: blogs
