This blog often covers issues related to diet, healthy foods and related trends. So I am excited to share with the readers here some information I have firsthand knowledge of regarding a very important personal breakthrough. This blogger has eliminated all wheat products from his diet for 45 days and has dropped almost 30 pounds in the same period of time!
Dr. William Davis, a cardiologist, has uncovered a very startling fact: modern, genetically modified (GM) wheat produces a gluten protein that crosses the blood-brain barrier. Know what else crosses the blood-brain barrier? Cocaine, heroin and other highly addictive substances! This is why, if you’re like me, you frequently cannot help overeating with a ravenous furor that borders on the uncontrollable. Since the 1960s, as part of efforts to optimize yields and feed a growing and hungry humanity, all wheat produced globally has been a GM variety. There was never any testing done to check if the GM grain had any negative side effects.
I can tell you that after the first 4 days without wheat – during which time I experienced miserable withdrawal symptoms reminiscent of drug withdrawals – my compulsion to eat constantly has all but subsided. Now, I still miss breads and pizza etc. although I can easily resist them whereas before, I was all but powerless to do so. Happily though, the damaging gluten protein is not inherent in potato, rice, corn and many other grains. So when I get to longing for a wheat product, I can satisfy myself with some fries and ketchup. Or I can enjoy a plate of pork fried rice. Or tacos in crunchy corn shells. And, I AM LOSING WEIGHT! So that’s something!
You can visit Dr. Davis’ Wheat Belly Blog here. I highly recommend the book too. It’s called
Wheat Belly. It’s available at Amazon.com and your local public library. Both the blog and the book also contain recipes to replace some of your favorite wheat-based munchies!
According to a report by the Associated Press:
WASHINGTON – A requirement tucked into the massive U.S health care bill will make calorie counts impossible for thousands of restaurants to hide and difficult for consumers to ignore. More than 200,000 fast food and other chain restaurants will have to include calorie counts on menus, menu boards and even drive-throughs. Read the whole article here.
It may be a bit onerous for these restaurants to have to do this, but if you’ve ever seen those popular “Eat This, Not That” books and website, you know that often, seemingly “healthy” menu items can be worse than things that have a reputation for being “bad for you”. In this blogger’s opinion, this step is a positive one because it will help American’s make more informed choices about what they eat. Dietary choices are behind so many of the leading illnesses in our society from obesity to cancer. The more info we have as a society, the better off we will be as we choose what to eat. 
Sweeping new U.S. breast cancer screening guidelines are calling for an end to routine mammograms for women in their 40s and for women 50 to 74 they suggest a mammogram every other year. This controversial new guideline was handed down by the United States Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF), a group of nongovernmental experts convened by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to review published literature and develop recommendations for the use of clinical preventive services. Coming on the heels of the controversial Stupak Amendment limiting coverage for abortions that was inserted into the House healthcare bill in the eleventh hour at the behest of Catholic Cardinals, this new guideline seems to many to be a part of a broader campaign to hack away at hard-won women’s rights. 
