Wheat Belly Book - Scientific Perspective

Wheat Belly Book - Scientific Perspective

Wheat Belly Book
Rodale Press has created a full - fledged marketing program for this book, with backing by the requisite blog: WheatBelly Blog. com. It has hit the target market so well that is has become a New York Times Bestseller, which just means that the marketing program is working very well.
I was initially thrilled to see this book come out, since I stroke that way about most new diet books. My shock was helped along in part since the subject of the book slammed dietary carbohydrates, which is a good thing. Business low in carbs is the best of the fat burning diets.
I will have to admit, though, that the book undermines something that I take pride in. It is that, as a trained ecologist, I have always proudly called my students ' attention to the only two botanists who have ever won a Nobel Prize. One of them is Norman Borlaug, father of the Green Revolution, who won a Nobel Quiet Prize for his role in developing modern dwarf wheat. This high - takings wheat is credited with saving over a billion people worldwide from starvation.
That is the good news.
The bad news is that there has never been any human toxicity or tolerance testing of modern wheat. Now, it turns out, the growing problems of obesity, metabolic syndrome, diabetes, gluten intolerance, celiac disease, and perhaps even depression and other mental disorders are abyssal in the consumption of dwarf wheat.
The bottom line is that, for the purposes of better health, the endorsement by Dr. Davis and a growing cadre of other medical professionals is to eliminate dwarf wheat from the human diet. Since at pristine 99 percent of the wheat - based and wheat - adulterated products on the market are made from dwarf wheat, this means to just stop eating wheat in truth.
All in all, this is cool advice.
Tens of thousands of people have just now undertaken this dietary nickels, including me. This doesn ' t even incorporate those who have been diagnosed with celiac disease and have had to eliminate dietary gluten completely.
The Inspection of Science
Most diet books have been published without any scientific backing whatsoever. My first assessment in adjudjing the plausible quality of a diet book is to cast in the back to see whether there are any references to scientific research. And if they are there, are they high quality. Dr. Davis does, indeed, render them. This may seem allying a nerdy requirement, and you may never peep at the list yourself, but it is important to see what the scientific foundation might be for a new diet.
I will be commenting on various aspects of wheat vs. human health in future articles. However, for now the key point larger all is the relationship between modern wheat and obesity. Specifically, is there a engender and effect relationship? Demonstrating engender and effect is the most difficult type of challenge for data, and studies of historical correlations or testimonials, no leaven how forcible they seem, do not justify any claims about create and effect. It is it likely that wheat causes the collection of visceral fat? Good, it is likely. We just do not know for concrete.
Regarding that point, at the fame we have no empirical studies to rely on delete for those involving celiac patients. Let ' s bright side the critical studies are in the happening by now.
This just means that the manifest that we can evaluate is testimonial, or case study, evidence. This is what Dr. Davis provides in abundance, including commentary on his own personal case. It is not pragmatic science. It is observational science, which is a good start.
Indeed, I can add case histories of many of my friends who suffered long - term fat, in rags digestion, and general health problems that would not go away until they embarked on a wheat - free diet. Some even did experiments on themselves - always seeing weight gain, gas and bloating, and indigestion when returning to wheat, and always seeing these symptoms reversed when they went wheat - free. ( They really didn ' t mean to do not unlike experiments. They just succumbed to the allure of wheat, generally. )
Do I conceive that the Wheat Belly diet is worthwhile? Positively. I have even come to enjoy planning, preparing, and eating meals without wheat products. I have no need for wheat, and neither do you.
Stay tuned to this topic. There is a lot more to know, and I whammy forward to digging into it all and utterance about it in future articles on my blog, BellyFatScience. com. I expectancy you enjoy learning about the ' drop wheat ' movement as much as I do.