Wheat Belly Total Health: The effortless grain-free health and weight-loss plan

Wheat Belly Total Health: The effortless grain-free health and weight-loss plan
Dr William Davis

The sequel to the bestselling Wheat Belly shows you how to take the advice one step further by going grain-free and discover the benefits of losing weight easily and achieving a level of radiant health and well-being you never thought possible.This sequel to the Number One bestseller Wheat Belly takes a grain-free lifestyle to the next level. Many lessons have been learned since the original Wheat Belly was released, and this book is packed with new tips and strategies that heal the damage caused by a grain-filled diet. Understanding these strategies can improve your health that much more, even if you have experienced significant improvements by eliminating wheat from your diet already.Clearing your body of wheat is the same as breaking an addiction and each body will respond differently. Wheat Belly Total Health addresses how to go grain-free and also explores the issues that arise on each person’s unique journey to optimal health. In Part I, Dr Davis exposes the hidden history of wheat production. In Part II, he dives into the nitty-gritty of how to master a grain-free lifestyle. In Part III, he shows readers how to improve their health even further, including how to achieve better energy, mental clarity, mood, metabolic health and much more. Resources, a practical shopping guide and a unique collection of recipes makes this the ultimate guide to living grain free.

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To all the readers who have the boldness, courage and conviction to rebel against conventional dietary advice and discover what real nutrition can do for human health

Contents

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Title Page (#u800c1a42-2FFF-11e9-9e03-0cc47a520474)

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Dedication (#u800c1a42-4FFF-11e9-9e03-0cc47a520474)

Introduction

Part I: No Grain is a Good Grain: Grazed, Grass-Fed and Fattened

Chapter 1 Liberate Your Inner Cow: Life Ungrained

Chapter 2 Let Them Eat Grass

Chapter 3 The Reign of Grain

Chapter 4 Your Bowels Have Been Fouled: Intestinal Indignities from Grains

Chapter 5 Grains, Brains and Chest Pains

Part II: Living Grainlessly: Restoring the Natural State of Human Life

Chapter 6 Grainless Life: Beginnings

Chapter 7 Grainless Living Day-to-Day

Part III: Be a Grainless Overachiever: The Next Steps to Reclaiming Grain-Free Total Health

Chapter 8 Correct Nutritional Deficiencies Caused by Grains

Chapter 9 Full Recovery from Post-Traumatic Grain Gut Syndrome

Chapter 10 Grainless Metabolic Mastery: Regain Control over Blood Sugar, Cholesterol, Bone Health and Inflammation

Chapter 11 The Annoyed Thyroid: Booby Trap for Weight and Health

Chapter 12 Endocrine Disruption: Trouble in the Gland Scheme of Things

Chapter 13 End the Self-Defeat: Recovering from Autoimmunity

Chapter 14 What If the Weight Doesn’t Come Off?

Chapter 15 Clearer, Smarter, Faster: Grain-Free Performance

Epilogue

Appendix A Recipes for Total Health

Appendix B Grain Pain: Watch Out for Hidden Sources of Grains

Appendix C A Grain-Free Shopping List

Appendix D Resources

Endnotes

List of Searchable Terms

Acknowledgements

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