An announcement from Wheat-Free Market founder, Gary Miller
Wheat-Free Market is changing!
When we launched in 2013, none of the products we offered were available on the market. As the wheat- and grain-free movement expanded into the mainstream, grain-free products such as pizza crusts and cereals became available in local, even big box, stores.
We have therefore made the difficult decision to focus only on our most promising products going forward, the Virtue line comprising our Virtue Sweetener and Prebiotic Mixes. As a business, we realized that the time and resources spent on producing our numerous other grain-free products, especially as such a small company, were taking away...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - February 15, 2020 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Open prebiotic sweetener virtue Wheat-Free Market Source Type: blogs
Harvard Health Ad Watch: When marketing puts your health at risk
The goal of advertising is, of course, to catch your attention and sell you a product. But when it comes to health-related products, inaccuracies in advertising can be detrimental to your health.
Perhaps you’ve seen a Vitamin Water ad recently that touts the health benefits of Vitamin Water while seeming to discourage getting a flu shot as out of fashion. It originally appeared in 2011 but has mysteriously resurfaced online. The text of the ad states, “Flu shots are so last year,” and subheadings add “more vitamin C, more immunity, less snotty tissues.” The average customer seeing this ad could conclude that flu ...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - January 8, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Robert H. Shmerling, MD Tags: Cold and Flu Complementary and alternative medicine Health Vaccines Vitamins and supplements Source Type: blogs
Monk fruit –More than a healthy sweetener?
Because I wanted a benign and healthy way for followers of the Wheat Belly lifestyle to recreate dishes such as chocolate chip cookies, cheesecake, and pies with none of the health problems of grains or sugars, I helped Wheat-Free Market develop its Virtue Sweetener product.
Yes, you could do without such sweeteners. But I learned long ago when I introduced Wheat Belly concepts to patients in my cardiology practice that having options while entertaining friends, during holidays, and pleasing kids was important for staying on course on this lifestyle. Before I understood how to use such natural sweeteners, patients would ...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - December 12, 2019 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Open blood sugar diabetes Dr. Davis Inflammation insulin low-carb monk fruit natural sweeteners undoctored virtue sweetener Weight Loss wheat Wheat Belly Total Health Source Type: blogs
Destiny shares her recipe for the best fat bombs she ’ s ever had: Strawberry Cheesecake
Destany shared her recipe for Strawberry Cheesecake Fat Bombs in the Wheat Belly 10-Day Grain Detox Facebook page, re-posted here. People have gone wild for them!
“These were THE BEST fat bombs I’ve ever made: Strawberry Cheesecake!
“One of the hardest parts in the beginning of this WOE (way of eating) is consuming enough fat. After years of being taught ‘fat is bad’ it can be difficult to UN-learn that.
“I eat a couple for breakfast, 1 between lunch and dinner, and another before bed. Sunday is always a good day to prep for the week!”
Destany shared her recipe:
1 block cream che...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - November 12, 2019 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Open fat blaster fat bomb Weight Loss wheat belly Source Type: blogs
How Artificial Sweeteners Affect Weight Loss
What is the effect of consuming low-calorie or calorie-free products?
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Kratom: Fear-worthy foliage or beneficial botanical?
Depending on what you read, kratom is a dangerous, addictive drug with no medical utility and severe side effects, including overdose and death, or it is an accessible pathway out of undertreated chronic pain and opiate withdrawal. How can the US Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA), medical professionals, and millions of regular kratom users have such divergent views of the same plant?
What is kratom?
Kratom (Mitragyna speciosa) is a tropical tree from the coffee family native to Southeast Asia, with properties that range from stimulant-like, energizing and uplifting, to opiate-like, causing drowsiness and euphoria. Kratom has d...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - August 7, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Peter Grinspoon, MD Tags: Addiction Pain Management Vitamins and supplements Source Type: blogs
Thin Microgels Encapsulate and Protect Therapeutic Cells
Cell-based therapies, such as those involving the delivery of stem cells, require a way to encapsulate cells inside a protective package in order for them to not be destroyed and washed out by the body. There have been successful attempts to contain therapeutic cells within hydrogels, but the resulting materials were bulky and could not be delivered intravenously.
Now, researchers at Harvard’s Wyss Institute have developed a way of packaging individual cells within thin-walled hydrogels, which can then be intravenously injected to take on therapeutic tasks. Moreover, their approach results in nearly all of the ve...
Source: Medgadget - July 19, 2019 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Medgadget Editors Tags: Materials Nanomedicine Oncology Rehab Source Type: blogs
Is sugar causing you to AGE faster?
Americans consume the equivalent of 300 loaves of bread each year (representing enormous exposure to the amylopectin A carbohydrate that behaves like sugar or worse). They also consume 200 pounds of sugar. It is not uncommon for sugar alone to comprise a quarter of all calories taken in over the course of the day—some of it out in the open, some of it hidden.
To understand the adverse effects of sugars—sucrose, high-fructose corn syrup, and other fructose-rich sweeteners, such as agave, honey, and maple syrup—we need to understand two phenomena:
1. Insulin resistance
2 Glycation.
Insulin Resistance
When blood...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - June 18, 2019 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Anti-aging BLOOD SUGAR Diabetes Dr. Davis Undoctored arthritis dementia grain-free grains health heart disease insulin joint pain weight gain Weight Loss wheat belly Source Type: blogs
Breakfast Nut Mix
Here a recipe from the Wheat Belly 30-Minute (Or Less!) Cookbook.
Here’s your answer to breakfast cereal—but this “cereal” has none of the problems of the stuff that lines an entire aisle at your supermarket. Serve this nut mix with coconut milk, almond milk, or dairy milk, cold or hot. Top with 1/4 cup fresh or frozen berries. It’s also a great accompaniment to yogurt, such as our oxytocin-boosting L. reuteri yogurt.
I make use of the modest fruit sugar in raisins. If you’re serving the nut mix to your children and they prefer it sweeter, add just a bit of stevia or other benig...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - June 11, 2019 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Recipes breakfast cereal grain-free low-carb wheat belly Source Type: blogs
Update: Wheat Belly safe flours and meals
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 incredibly unhealthy, since they make visceral fat grow, send blood sugar through the roof, and contribute to diabetes, hypertension, heart disease, cancer, and dementia.
But perhaps you’d sure like a few muffins or cookies once in a while . . . without paying the health price that follows wheat and grain consumption such as high blood sugar, insulin resistance, type 2 diabetes, autoimmune conditions, acid reflux, and inc...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - May 22, 2019 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: News & Updates gluten-free grain-free low-carb wheat belly Source Type: blogs
Super yogurt that ’ s a lot better than products sold in groceries
Commercial production of yogurt involves brief-as-possible fermentation time, addition of blending/emulsifying ingredients to generate smoothness and better mouthfeel, as well as manipulations to suit consumer preference, no matter how misguided such as low- or non-fat and the addition of high-fructose corn syrup- or sugar-sweetened sweeteners and fruits.
Fermentation time is a major chokehold on commercial production. Imagine that your cookie factory requires 36 hours to manufacture a batch of cookies, rather than, say, 30 minutes—this would pose a major holdup in production. For this reason, yogurt manufacturers us...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - April 15, 2019 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Yogurt fermented lactic acid lactose prebiotic probiotic reuteri wheat belly Source Type: blogs
Six Health-Focused Fixes for SNAP
By CHRISTINA BADARACCO
The $867 billion Farm Bill squeaked through our polarized Congress at the end of last year, though it was nearly derailed by arguments over work requirements for SNAP recipients. That debate was tabled after the USDA crafted a compromise, but it is sure to continue at the state level and in the next round of debates. While Republicans tend to favor work requirements and Democrats tend to oppose them, here’s something both sides can agree on: SNAP should help Americans eat healthy food.
The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)—formerly known as food stamps—provides financial re...
Source: The Health Care Blog - April 11, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Health Policy Politics Christina Badaracco farm bill healthy eating Population Health SNAP Source Type: blogs
The Wheat Belly Slim Guide e-book now available for only $1.99
Good news: The e-book of WHEAT BELLY SLIM GUIDE is available for $1.99 until March 31st, 2019 through all U.S. and Canadian retailers!
Included in the Slim Guide are:
–A summary of the Wheat Belly approach to cultivating bowel flora, including a list of prebiotic fiber sources
–Wheat Belly safe sweeteners
–Safe flours and meals for baking and breading
–Safe thickeners
–Wheat Belly Basic Recipes–All-Purpose Baking Mix, Focaccia Bread, ketchup, mayonnaise, salad dressings
–The Top 10 Wheat Belly recipes of all time
–A 7-day Menu Plan
–Shopping lists
–Wheat Belly Happy H...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - March 23, 2019 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Books and Interviews grain-free slim guide wheat belly Source Type: blogs
The Yo-Yo Dieter ’ s Dilemma
People lose oodles of weight on the Wheat Belly lifestyle. Weight loss results rapidly on this lifestyle because we 1) remove gliadin-derived opioid peptides that previously stimulated appetite, 2) remove amylopectin A that previously raised blood sugar and thereby insulin to high levels, 3) remove other factors that add to inflammation such as wheat germ agglutinin. We have thousands and thousand of people who have lost 30, 50, 100, 130 pounds on the basic program.
But not everyone does. Some people fail to lose weight because they have hypothyroidism, fail to restore iodine, take prescription drugs that block weight loss...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - March 6, 2019 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: News & Updates undoctored Weight Loss wheat belly Source Type: blogs
Sweeteners: Time to rethink your choices?
When it comes to low-calorie sweeteners, you have a lot of choices. There’s the blue one, the pink one, the yellow one, or the green one. Whichever one you choose, know that scientists have probably studied it extensively. What they’ve found may surprise you.
Artificial and other non-caloric sweeteners: The major players
The marketers for artificial sweeteners have color-coded their products, but they differ in some important ways beyond their packaging. In the US, the most popular FDA-approved non-sugar sweeteners (NSSs) and their most common packaging color are:
aspartame (blue): examples include Nutrasweet and Equa...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - February 22, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Robert H. Shmerling, MD Tags: Diet and Weight Loss Health Healthy Eating Source Type: blogs
