Table of Contents
Introduction ix
Part 1 Wheat: The Unhealthy Whole Grain
Chapter 1 What Belly? 3
Chapter 2 Not Your Grandma's Muffins: The Creation of Modern Wheat 12
Chapter 3 Wheat Deconstructed 31
Part 2 Wheat and its Head-to-Toe Destruction of Health
Chapter 4 Hey, Man, Wanna Buy Some Exorphins? The Addictive Properties of Wheat 43
Chapter 5 Your Wheat Belly Is Showing: The Wheat/Obesity Connection 55
Chapter 6 Hello, Intestine. It's Me, Wheat. Wheat and Celiac Disease 74
Chapter 7 Diabetes Nation: Wheat and Insulin Resistance 95
Chapter 8 Dropping Acid: Wheat as the Great pH Disrupter 116
Chapter 9 Cataracts, Wrinkles, and Dowager's Humps: Wheat and the Aging Process 130
Chapter 10 My Particles Are Bigger Than Yours: Wheat and Heart Disease 146
Chapter 11 It's All in Your Head: Wheat and the Brain 166
Chapter 12 Bagel Face: Wheat's Destructive Effect on the Skin 176
Part 3 Say Goodbye to Wheat
Chapter 13 Goodbye, Wheat: Create a Healthy, Delicious, Wheat-Free Life 191
Epilogue 225
Appendix A Looking for Wheat in All the Wrong Places 229
Appendix B Healthy Wheat Belly-Shrinking Recipes 238
Acknowledgments 267
References 270
Index 287