Foreword to Wheat Belly Revised & Expanded Edition

  An excerpt from the Wheat Belly Revised & Expanded Edition: Have you ever come home from the grocery store with a fresh container of milk, opened it and immediately realized that it was bad—sour-smelling, curdled, unfit to drink?  Feed it to the cat? Probably not. Lighten your coffee? I don’t think so. Pour it down the sink—yeah, that’s the ticket. Or maybe go back to the store with some of the curdled remains and ask for your money back.  That is what your reaction to conventional dietary advice should be. You should wrinkle your nose at the bad smell that emanates from advice that creates an astonishingly long list of health problems, from eczema to obesity, from plantar fasciitis to colon cancer. Blessed by food manufacturers, extolled by dietitians, occupying the most visible eye-level shelves in grocery stores, elevated to top of the list of foods to include in every meal by most doctors, consensus dietary opinion has gotten us into a heap of trouble, an epidemic of bulging bellies, insulin injections, toxic drugs for autoimmune conditions while waddling, limping, or riding scooters in XXL pants and dresses, a situation unprecedented in human history.   Should we accept the common judgement that the largest epidemic of chronic health issues in history is due to laziness, sloth, moral weakness, failure to tally calories in and calories out, mysterious and unidentified viral infections as is often done by the medical community . . . or might official ...
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