Wheat Belly: 10-Day Grain Detox: Reprogram Your Body for Rapid Weight Loss and Amazing Health by William Davis

Wheat Belly: 10-Day Grain Detox: Reprogram Your Body for Rapid Weight Loss and Amazing Health Reviews

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  Jennifer

  Written with some humor. Can't rate it until I've tried it. Looks a little more complicated than just cutting out the grains.
  
  Update. I've tried it and now been off the diet a few weeks. I'll be going back to it as I felt better, even though significantly restricted, while on it. I didn't lose a lot of weight - 10 lbs, but my gut was improved. It is just hard to apply to a normal social life!
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  SheAintGotNoShoes

  Ugh !! What a dreadful book/eating plan written by a smug and self-satisfied doctor. His eating plan is as follows : Lard ( yep, lard), tallow, unlimited eggs, fatty meat, organ meat, unlimited fat and protein strictly from land and sea animals/fish and get this.........raw potatoes put into your mega high fat smoothie.
  
  Gag me. Horrible. Nothing at for vegetarians or vegans, nor was there any attempt made. Strictly for fat loving carnivores with a slice of smugness by its author.
  
  No thanks.😳😳😳😳😳😳
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  TERRI DURAN

  Have already seen some improvement in my body since starting. Started wheat free 2weeks ago and grain free three days ago. My leg swelling is down and my glucose levels are down! Do this!
  
  
  Really. This is life changing. Everyone can benefit! Do you love your man boobs? No? Try this lifestyle! Erectile dysfunction? No? Try this lifestyle. Ladies love your menstrual cramps and migraines? No? Try this lifestyle!
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  Kirsten Dillard

  I had to give up grain quite a while ago. How I wish I had this book when I first started. It is easy to follow and makes it very easy to start. People need to realize that this is a life change - not just a 10 day diet/cleanse. I would say that it was a little commercially at times, and I wish there had been more recipes examples.
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  Cynda

  Life Changing Book. I still have much to learn and practice. I have support of my Nurse Practitioner. She hooked me up with a friend of hers who has agreed to help others over the phone. I also have a supportive GR friend. And the books of Dr Davis.
  
  I started with what I am calling "the argument" (rhetorical term).
  
  Wheat Belly: Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight, and Find Your Path Back to Health by
  William Davis. I read the book, followed the argument, and made a decision to try. I know 21 days make a habit, so I am telling myself I am practicing a new habit.
  
  Once I made my decision, I started
  Wheat Belly: 10-Day Grain Detox: Reprogram Your Body for Rapid Weight Loss and Amazing Health also by
  William Davis.
  
  Today my GR friend reminded that I may have gotten off track. Sure, I am practicing, not practiced. I went back to read this book some more. It is a keeper. I can borrow this library book for 4 more weeks, and then I will be buying a copy from thriftbooks.com.
  
  In addition to reading these books, I have also bought
  Wheat Belly (30 Minutes or Less!) Cookbook also by Dr Davis.
  
  Practicing. Practicing. Practicing.
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  Lisa Marie Gabriel

  I read Wheat Belly before I read this and I actually preferred the more scientific approach of the first book. This book is simplified and largely practical. Having said that, you are not going to believe the difference this can make to you unless you try the detox for yourself. It claims to heal from the inside out and non scale victories are in some ways even more important than the weight loss that should follow if you do the detox without cheating. It is strict, you must count net carbs and follow advice on supplements, but the increase I have felt in energy has made it all worthwhile in my case. Having benefited so much from the detox, I am not likely to go back to eating grain. Thank you Dr Davis.
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  Rebecca

  FRAUD! Got it for a dollar just to scan for medical misinformation and it is a motherload of dangerous quackery. Within the first chapter it touts the wonder of this totally not a fad detox diet will, based on uncited medical studies:
  Cause weight loss - not weight gain (it's a diet, tautology)
  Reduce overall caloric intake (it's a restriction diet, tautology)
  Drops blood sugar and A1c (true but)- many people with diabetes are cured (yes it claims this diet can cure diabetes, without citation, and not just Type2 but "diabetes" this is a uncited medical claim and complete quackery)
  
  Reduction of blood pressure (Citation needed as this may also involve medication, exercise, or being on a regimented lifestyle during the study where they were directed to avoid stressors.)
  
  Increased likelihood of remission of Rh arthritis (Baseless claim likely generated from useless anecdotal evidence, ethically questionable to include.)
  
  Reversal of neurological conditions such as cerebral ataxia, some forms of seizures, and peripheral neuropathy (FRAUDULENT CLAIMS! preying on medical ignorance and desperation There is no cure for ataxia, but the symptoms can be treated. "some seizures" is vague nonsense. Peripheral neuropathy is helped with exercise and general diet changes including ceasing smoking so baseless claim with multiple potential causes.)
  
  Reversal of multiple forms of skin rash (Vague nonsense. This needs a medical diagnosis as the persons cherry picked for the claim likely had undiagnosed gluten sensitivity and/or celiac)
  
  Reductions of paranoia and hallucinations in people with schizophrenia (MEDICLALLY NEGLIGENT! to include it as it will infer to people with family members dealing with the condition can be cured of it with a radical diet change. Schizophrenia is a serious medical condition requiring treatment that can include medications, which this book has already poo-pooed repeatedly. Also based on ONE PAPER from 2011 in Evolutionary Psychiatry which is a theoretical branch of psychology and has been repeated et nauseum by alternative medicine blogs aka medically untrained quacks as proof but no other studies were found. That doctor also started selling diet books so take that with dead sea size grain of salt)
  
  Improved attention span and behavior in children with ADD and autism spectrum (I almost set the book on fire with this dangerously reckless criminally negligent HORSESH*T. The attention claim is 100% wrong, the study saw a marked decrease in hyperactivity, not attention span as that was not looked for and is using the hand wave misunderstanding that those are interchangeable. Regarding the autism claim, F*CK THIS *SSH*LE! The second any one, especially a medical professional, tries and say there is a treatment for autism or autism related issues, especially when they are speaking directly about children, I know they are talking directly to the Jenny McCarthys of the world who are not looking for how to live with the genetic condition, but paint their children as victims of some evil cabal that has an agenda and that it's a injury that can be reversed and not a reality of their biology.)
  
  Relief from the bowel urgency and disruption of IBS (Oh look, a 100% correct statement, but if you know you have IBS you should have already been told by your doctor to avoid gluten. So this is redundant if you actually visit a doctor as they were legally required to say in this book before they even posted the opening quote validating the medical incredulity of the people this book preys upon.)
  
  At this point I was done. 4 pages in and this book sent me into a rage. I spent more time looking up the cherry picked and uncited studies that were taken as proof positive and every single time it was p-hacking fraud or a one off paper that has already been discredited by the peer review system. This was made all the harder as these same studies were, as said before, as single source confirmation bias for non-medically trained people pushing dangerous quack treatments for often made up conditions whose veracity is based on how loudly they could shout medical establishment is all about profit, in between blinking adds for colloidal silver tinctures and bleach enemas, so it was easier to find people repeating the lie than the truth they parasitically ripped it from. If I did this as a job like YT reviewing I would continue but the degree of medical misinformation has me throwing this straight into the recycler.
  
  This is a recipe/menu plan book and should have been just that and left out the chapters reprising the thesis from the first book. Since if I need to get the first book to get the citations to the medical claims, my credulity is challenged that they meet a rigorous standard, then that's on him and is still negligent to include numerous significant medical claims without even the barest page referencing the studies. He spent 2 pages selling other books but not supporting this one, which just needed a copy/paste of the relevant source page, IF he even had it in the first one.
  
  Take the money for this and instead consult an trained dietician. They aren't that expensive, can work with medical conditions, lifestyles, and personal/religious restrictions. Don't rely on books loaded with buzz words and feel good sentiments reinforcing laymen incredulities based on things that sound true or false. They are also more accountable than a doctor who sells fad diets and hides behind a "you should have talked to a medical professional first" when the MD on the title is all the appeal to authority they hope you require.
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  Farrell

  This book changed my life! The recipes are so easy and ingredients are used over and over. It's a change of lifestyle for the better. I could go on and on about it but since eating only real food, I've had more energy and virtually no bloating; I stay full longer; and I have virtually no sugar cravings. The smoothie
  Recipes are great and fill me up for hours!
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  Ashley

  The first couple chapters seemed to repeat the same information and almost felt like it was advertising for the book. (which is odd considering I was already reading it.)
  
  Overall I don't think it's something that could ever work for me. Seems like it eliminates a lot of different foods and doesn't seem sustainable long term, especially for a vegetarian.
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  Steve Stred

  Finished this last night. Read it for my wife.
  Horribly written, horribly dry but does lay out some food guides, weekly food plan and some solid recipes to help take away the stress of doing a switch over like this.
  
  It could have easily been 2/3rd's shorter, and the continued use of the phrasing 'but enough about the research/science' when it wasn't referenced to begin with became tedious.
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  Bradley Nelson

  Ok
  
  Ok I:hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh: Chihuahua t k g r b I o p e g h j k c b m n
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  Susan Mead

  It is TIME
  
  It is simply TIME for me to get serious, lose this belly and all the accompanying issues that grains bring to me - and so many others. Thank you Dr. Davis!
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  Erin Mclachlan

  I could probably do without the cutsie 'oh wait until you are a size 4' comments, but I do think grain can cause inflammation and this was a quick read on that.
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  sharon clarke

  A must read
  
  This book is fantastic. It is an add on to the wheat belly books but it gets you started on your path to becomimg wheat and grain free. It is a must for anyone who has health issues and wants to get rid of them. Day 2 of my detox and I have reduced my insulin by 20 units something I never thought would happen being told by my gp that I would always be a diabetic and it could not be reversed. 80 units to go!
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  Joya Cousin

  Having read 'Wheat Belly' years ago while aleeady on a low carb lifestyle, I've strayed from the path after moving to France. This was a great refresher on all the benefits I used to enjoy and provided needed motivation to get back on the grain-free path to better health, weight management and energy.
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  Gail

  Another low carb diet
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  Jill

  Dr. Davis makes a lot of sense!
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  Laurel

  What this book lacks in substance it makes up for in recipes.
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  Lori Staples

  Interesting read
  
  This was an eye-opening read! As someone who has suffered from wheat related symptoms, I couldn’t put it down! I completed the detox and feel so much better
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  Nell Fleming

  Good advice
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  Kristina Crowley

  I read this book over and over because I feel so much better without grain in my diet.
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  Kelly L Arnold

  Nothing new if you have read the original. A bit sexist and geared towards women, as noted by my husband. ;)
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  Laurie Fernandez

  Good info made sense to me, harder to lose weight as we get older.