Wheat Belly

Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight, and Find Your Path Back to Health

By: William David MD

Narrated by: Tom Weiner

Length: 7 hrs and 33 mins

Publisher's summary

A provocative look at how eliminating wheat from our diets can help us lose weight, shrink unsightly bulges, and reverse a broad spectrum of health problems—from acne to diabetes to serious digestive disorders.

Since the introduction of dietary guidelines calling for reduced fat intake in the 1970s, a strange phenomenon has occurred: Americans have steadily, inexorably become heavier, less healthy, and more prone to diabetes than ever before. After putting more than 2,000 of his at-risk patients on a wheat-free regimen and seeing extraordinary results, cardiologist William Davis has come to the disturbing conclusion that it is not fat, not sugar, not our sedentary lifestyle that is causing America’s obesity epidemic—it is wheat. How this once-benign grain—now genetically modified almost beyond recognition and found in virtually every course of every meal—has come to have such a profound and deleterious effect on our collective well-being is one of the great untold health stories of our generation.

In Wheat Belly, Dr. Davis exposes the truth about modern-day wheat, deconstructing its historical role in the human diet and the agricultural evolutions that have created a hybrid grain that has a greater impact on blood sugar levels than pure cane sugar and many of the addictive characteristics of a narcotic. He sheds light on wheat’s connection to weight gain as well as to a host of other adverse effects from diabetes to heart disease to immunologic and neurologic disorders like celiac disease, rheumatoid arthritis, and dementia. Finally, to help listeners dependent on wheat products make the move to a wheat-free diet, he presents a clear-cut action plan packed with food and lifestyle tips, meal plans, and recipes.

Informed by decades of clinical research and backed by case studies of men and women who have experienced life-changing transformations in their health after waving good-bye to wheat, Wheat Belly is an illuminating look at a familiar food as well as an affirmative life plan for regaining health and losing unwanted pounds.

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your My Library section along with the audio.

©2011 William Davis, MD (P)2011 Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Demonising wheat for everyone and not just for Celiac disease sufferers

Need more evidence in the form of clinical trials to support this proposition. Is it wheat only or all forms of carbohydrates that is causing problems?

Not a fan of Tom Weiner as narrator. His pitch did not quite resonate...

Good book on how to eat right

Nice info about weat slavery and how to escape it. All against traditional eating Habits un Life Style.

Complete and convincing

Overall is a great starter to quit wheat and bad carbs, full of convincing testimonies and interesting unheard facts. It is a MUST read for everyone who is interested in a long a healthy lifespan

Life changing

After cutting wheat from my diet, I no longer suffer from acid reflux or heartburn, my knees do not hurt, and I no longer feel bloated at the end of every day.

It's a nutrition book. It's a horror novel.

Sorry, Stephen King. This is the scariest book I've read all year. If half of the stuff the author discusses in this book is true, the ramifications are global in scope. If dwarf wheat truly is unfit for human consumption, then what do we do? Do we stop feeding the world's populations of undernourished? If people start eating right, what will happen to our grain-based economy? Can we afford to make this change? Will we save enough in medical bills to afford to eat better? And is there enough "good" food to go around? I've started my wheat-free trial. But I shudder to think what will happen if the FDA takes this book's findings seriously.

WOW! this ranks up there with Pollan's OD!

Any additional comments?

If you are concerned about your health, READ THIS BOOK! Urge all the members of your family, your friends, your co-workers to read it. It may save your life or at least make it last longer and be more enjoyable to live.

I NEVER KNEW... I WAS POISONING MYSELF!

This book has answered so many questions, I never knew I needed to ask about eating healthy. Having just finished Finding Ultra by Rich Roll, I found ths work to be a complementary and insightful boost to the path off the Pre-Diabetis Train I am currently riding and was failing to escape due to the USDA and aided and abedded by the ADA "recommended" "Healthy Whole Grain" insanity!!! UGH! I always knew I didn't trust a bureacrat when it came to my money why should I be surprised to discover my health was never their primary concern either. The ADA should know better. They claim to be seeking the cure and clearly they are not. The ADA has lost a lot of brownie points in my world, they will never see one more penny from my bank account until they change their stance on this death pact they have with the wheat lobby.

I thought I was eating healthy an yet nothing was helping my numbers improve. They have slowly crept upward with each year's blood test. Last year I lost my gal bladder and things improved for a few months and then I recomitted to eating more healthy foods! Yep! I just unwittingly followed the recommended daily's like so many before me. My earlier weight loss began to reverse itself almost immediately.

I have lost a younger cousin to a digestive system cancer that was rare and unexplained. Now I suspect the cause may have been his "healthy diet" he encouraged me to adopt full of healthy whole grains. My mother in law is killing herself on the ADA dietary plan. This is a nightmare that those who should be watching out for the public as a whole have allowed and even profited by inattentive and or borderline criminal negligence.

My wife and I have begun the process of removing ALL WHEAT from our family's diet. It will be interesting to see the effects it has on our two Autism Spectrum boys. I am so very glad I picked up this title. I have purchased the ebook version of it and of the Cookbook too.

There are benefits to this way of eating

I was hoping that recipes were included. I learned some new things about a1c testing that that I didn't know before. I think that medical providers would benefit from listening to it as a way to better help their patients. My weight has gone down by about 2 lbs in the last 3 days of listening to it and trying to apply the principles. That's decent because losing weight isn't easy for me most of the time. What concerns me the most is seeing my blood sugar spike despite less carbs. It did better when I went under 60 grams of carbs yesterday.
My daughter's headaches went away with going gluten free. I definitely think going gluten free is important. I think many people who think they are gluten-free don't realize all the ways gluten is hidden in things. So if you are gluten free but still sick. I would try listening to this book.

Well written, poorly delivered

If you could sum up Wheat Belly in three words, what would they be?

Informative. Provocative. Inspiring,

What didn’t you like about Tom Weiner’s performance?

Overly stuffy voice that didn't match the occasional humor & sarcasm and conversational tone in the writing. I've listened to this book four times now--every time, I marvel that anyone heard this guy's delivery and decided he was the man for the job. It's the moments of humor--a joke about a TV series comes to mind--that really highlight how off this interpretation is. A friend hearing this guy speak told me to stop the playback muttering, "No one really talks like that..." The timbre and range of Mr. Weiner's voice on its own is fine--he might make millions doing voiceovers for melodramatic movie trailers.

Any additional comments?

The information on statins is really intriguing. I can't count how many people I know paying for and ingesting what could be a total waste.

Fat is Good

Ties all the low carb vs low fat dietary info together in a great way and shows that sugar and thus perhaps processed foods are the enemy. They affect more than just weight with possible issues on bone denisty to dementia. The science can get a little heavy so the audio book is a great way to take it in.