So wheat gives the dudes moobs ...
... but the ladies will go from deflated flatter chested pears, to round and perky Barbies if they just lose the wheat. Yeah, that's how it's always worked for me! WheatBelly is a JOKE. Odd none of the LC ladies will call this guy on this crap ...
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By the way, Dr. Mercola (or at least his web site) said it again:
"It seems that the evidence is quite clear that chronically raising your blood glucose will raise your insulin and leptin, which in turn will increase insulin and leptin resistance. And avoiding insulin and leptin resistance is perhaps the single most important factors if you seek optimal health and longevity."
Sigh!
"That said, the degree to which you choose to reduce sugar and carbs however is, ultimately, up to you. And certain individual biochemical differences can make one diet more beneficial for you than others. The key point is to be aware that consuming sugar, grains and starches will promote insulin resistance to some degree or other, depending on the amount you consume."
So, if I consume a little bit of grains, starches and sugar I will only get a little bit insulin resistant? Whew! That's good to know.....
I bet Mr. M doesn't even write or check this stuff. I think his sales machine is too big by now for him over see it completely. I'll give him the benefit of the doubt on that.
The insulin begets insulin resistance dogma must be challenged. I just read where a paleo diet reduced IR by some whopping amount and an LC blogger can't help but imagine how much better it would have been had it not been a high carb version as it was. Sheesh!
I think one issue with wheat is that it is usually used to make higher reward foods and is used frequently for extra calories like bread and desert. Bread is rarely the main “starch” to a meal; restaurants will put it out on the table for something to eat before the real meal gets there. Even people eating sandwiches or hamburgers still eat fries or potato chips or some other starch. Even if someone is eating a plate full of pasta, garlic toast will be served with it. Bread is usually just added calories.
Chris Masterjohn gave a brilliant opinion (IMO) on this in his interview with Cary Nostler (see his site for more info)-a very rational account of how grains have (and can) fit into the human food record and why they may have been dangerous as well as healthful (definitely congruent with WAPF philosophy). Anyway, it puts perspective to the knee jerk "all grains are dangerous/deadly" dogma that you hear from many hard core paleo folk.
Wheat products are surprisingly high energy density on their own (whole wheat or otherwise) when compared to other starches as well, and are great vehicles for fat and sweet. Folks routinely stall and gain on paleo almond meal concoctions just as easily.
However, there is something about wheat that makes it worth experimenting with elimination for folks with allergies and gastrointestinal problems. Eliminating of gluten improved my son's eczema and his flatulence issues. Irritation against Dr.Davis style of reaching masses should not discourage people from some personal n=1.
Good catch! There are 9 of her aren't there? Bwa ha haha heh.
But since I've seen in my own family what awful symptoms eating wheat has caused different family members - many of us suffering for years, on mutliple medications, because no doctor ever suggested cutting out wheat. In all our cases it took a *friend* to suggest it, and what a difference it has made in several lives, including my own.
So if Dr. Davis can get a few people to try giving up wheat I say more power to him. It's not as if it's exactly dangerous advice. Maybe wheat is not the Devil for all people, but it's not exactly essential to life either.
With that said, I did hear this book is terrible.
I have LONG thought that the "secret" to low carb diets is that people get off of gluten and lose a ton of water weight (for starters) and inflammation and then are able to lose weight because their bodies aren't in distress anymore. All I know is I can't do low carb well. I don't feel good, so I try to go 40-30-30ish with macronutrients.
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