Wheat Belly.

     Sugar and white flour are my gateway drugs for overeating.  They always have been and always will be.
      I recently read the book "Wheat Belly" by Dr. William Davis, a cardiologist.  He discusses the changes in modern day wheat.  It is not the same wheat that humans have eaten for the past 10,000 years.  In the past 50 years it has been genetically altered and hybridized so as to be almost unrecognizable to the human digestive tract, which has not evolved in that short amount of time to adapt to it. 
     Celiac disease has increased 4 fold in the past 50 years, and there are many other types of wheat sensitivities and allergies.  Dr. Davis feels that many adverse health conditions such as obesity, diabetes, heart disease, immunological and neurological disorders, may be eliminated by eliminating wheat. 
     Thus, being an experiment of one, I am going to go wheat free for 3 weeks to see if I notice a difference in my life, to determine if I am wheat sensitive.  In reality, I eat very little wheat anyway, but will avoid all pasta, cold cereals, and bread, plus start reading labels to make sure no wheat ingredients are listed. I will see if I feel less hungry or less achy or just better.
     He makes a good argument for not eating wheat, but then he generalizes it to most carbs, and the diet he suggests seems very Adkins-like.  He doesn't back up any of that part of the book with research.  He does state diet should primarily be plant/vegetable based, though, for health.

     I received a soy-milk maker for Christmas from my kids....they know me well!  Today I will try a batch of almond/rice milk as that is what I have on hand.  Later I will try soy milk and other nut milks.  I love to experiment.  

     
                    Go vegan and nobody gets hurt.