Wheat belly

3.5stars. I'm not a biochemist or nutritionist so I can't really verify if everything he said about wheat is true, but I know that wheat makes me feel crap. Almost always after eating wheat, I'd get such intense stomach pains ... yet I eat it anyway, helplessly addicted to it. Davis is great at explaining why this is so, and some of the things he tells you is downright scary. If he is to be believed, diseases like dementia, joint pains, fatigue, cancer and diabetes can be linked to wheat. But how can it be when people have been eating wheat for centuries? Well, the wheat that we're eating has been GMO'ed beyond its ancestral strain (ie dwarf wheat) and Davis does a good job explaining why that has been wrecking havoc with human systems. Also, it's true what he said about how eliminating weight will help you lose weight - a friend of mine eliminated wheat (and other “white” foods) and he shed like a tonne of weight and got rid of his diabetes. Worth a read.

PS: Planning to keep a copy of this book (I read a library copy) just to scare the bejesus out of myself when I'm tempted to head into a bakery and attack its fluffy contents.