Wheat Belly & Total Health by William Davis (2011): What to eat and foods to avoid

Wheat Belly (2011) is a an anti-wheat book that also recommends a low-carb diet and avoiding bad fats and cured meats.

• Gluten-Free.
• Eat unprocessed, real foods including vegetables, meats, raw nuts and seeds.
• Avoid processed and sugary foods.
• In Wheat Belly, gluten-free grains are allowed. In Wheat Belly Total Health, they’re not.
• Recommendations are similar to a “lite” version of paleo

Below is a detailed outline of the food recommendations in the book.  Wheat Belly vs Wheat Belly Total Health  |  General guidelines  |  Foods to eat  |  Foods to limit  |  Foods to avoid. There’s a lot more in the book.

Use this page as a cheat sheet alongside the book. Send this page to friends, family, and anyone else you’re eating with so they can understand what you’re eating.

Get a copy of Wheat Belly for details on why the author believes that modern wheat is harmful for health, and what you can do to avoid it, as well as some recipes.
Get Wheat Belly Total Health for updates from the original recommendations, advice on grain withdrawal, a timeline of what to expect when living grainlessly, and how to correct nutritional deficiencies and health issues cause by grains.
Get the Wheat Belly Cookbook for many more recipes, as well as more discussion on the dangers of wheat and advice on how to use specific ingredients; also the Wheat Belly 30 Minute Or Less Cookbook for 200 quick and simple recipes.

The reasoning behind Wheat Belly

The original Wheat Belly book claims that wheat strains have been hybridized, crossbred, and introgessed to make the wheat plant resistant to environmental conditions and to increase yield per acre. These changes have required drastic changes in genetic code, which change how our body and immune system reacts to wheat. Wheat is also an appetite stimulant, and in some people it can yield drug-like neurological effects. Grains, including wheat, are acid-producing, and reduce LDL particle size. Digestive by-products in wheat lead to joint inflammation, increased blood sugar, brain effects, and effects on the skin. The book also recommends an overall reduction in carbohydrates because of small LDL-triggering effects and appetite stimulation, and also foods that cause oxidation and AGE formation such as certain fats, cured meats, and processed foods.

The revised book, Wheat Belly Total Health, says that the first book was an oversimplification and goes further to say that other grains or “grass seeds” (even whole grains) are also not healthy – they’re “less bad” than modern wheat, but that doesn’t mean that they’re good for you. It says that humans are nonruminants and are not fully evolved to eat grasses (although in some cases partial tolerance is found), and corn and rice have been genetically modified and are “Frankengrains” as much as wheat is. All grains contain inflammatory factors including lectin, and are indigestible or only partially digestible, fooling receptors and thwarting hormonal signals. They also adversely affect your oral and bowel flora and lead to vitamin and mineral deficiencies.

Wheat Belly diet plan – food list

The foods listed here are taken from all of the Wheat Belly books. Where there’s contradictory advice in the books, it’s noted here.

• Wheat Belly vs Wheat Belly Total Health
• General guidelines
• Foods to eat
• Foods to limit
• Foods to avoid

Wheat Belly vs Wheat Belly Total Health

As often happens, after the original diet book was written the author did further research and made tweaks to the diet. In many cases, the recommendations are the same.

The main difference is in that Total Health, the author advises that you avoid all grains – including wheat, rye, barley, corn, rice, bulgur, sorghum, triticale, millet, teff, and oats.

The three steps to living grainlessly are:

1. Eliminate grains.
2. Eat real, single-ingredient foods.
3. Manage carbohydrates.

General guidelines

Withdrawal

When you withdraw from eating grains, note that you may have withdrawal symptoms for about 5 days (or as little as a day or as long as several weeks) – flu-like symptoms, depression, emotional outbursts, dark thoughts, nausea, cravings, dehydration, light-headedness, muscle cramps, bloating, constipation, headache, intensification of joint pain, low energy. Compare the withdrawal process to stopping smoking or an alcoholic coming cold turkey off alcohol, and be prepared to have symptoms.

Tips for withdrawal:

• Choose a nonstressful period to experience withdrawal
• Don’t exercise
• Hydrate
• Use some salt – sea-salt or other mineral-containing salt
• Supplement with magnesium
• Consume fats, oils, and proteins liberally
• Take a probiotic
• Supplement iodine, 5-hydroxytryptohan, rhodiola

It may take 4-6 weeks to reach peak capacity for “burning” fat instead of carbohydrates.

The Wheat Belly Total Health book contains a timeline of what to expect when living grainlessly, recommendations on correct nutritional deficiencies cause by grains, and recommendations on how to repopulate with friendly flora.

Reexposure

Watch out for reexposure – it can bring back unpleasant symptoms. You may get excessive gas, cramps, diarhhea for about 24 hours; acid reflux or irritable bowel syndrome returning full blast for several days; joint pain; mental effects include mind fog, impaired concentration, anxiety, headache, depression, and even recurrent suicidal thoughts if you had them previously; appetite stimulation; recurrence of asthma or sinus congestion; bad reexposure reactions of autoimmune inflammation in joints, skin, or intestinal tract.

Learn to recognize what reexpose looks and feels like in your own individual experience.

Foods to eat in Wheat Belly

These are the basic principles that are recommended.
Eat these foods in unlimited quantities: Eat what your body tells you to eat, since appetite signals, once rid of unnatural appetite stimulants such as wheat flour, will let you know what you require.

• Vegetables
  • Choose organic where possible – if not, rinse thoroughly in warm water to minimize pesticide/herbicide residues
  • Eat a variety of vegetables
  • Vegetables shouldn’t just be for dinner: have them any time of the day, including breakfast
  • Artichoke hearts, avocados, bell peppers, broccoli, broccolini, Brussels sprouts, butternut squash, carrots, cauliflower, celery, chard, chile peppers, collard greens, cucumber, dandelions, eggplant, endive, garlic, green beans, greens, jicama, kale, leeks, lettuce, mushrooms, onions, peas, purslane, radish, scallions, shallots, spinach, sprouts (alfalfa, broccoli, etc.), spaghetti squash, squash, tomatoes, turnips, yellow squash, water chestnuts, zucchini
  • Note potatoes and corn should be limited/excluded, see “consume in limited quantities” below
  • Wheat Belly Total Health encourages you to eat fermented foods, including fermented vegetables

• Dairy products
  • Choose organic
  • Full-fat cheeses (blue cheese (if gluten-free), cheddar, Comte, Crotin de Chavignol, edam, feta, Fontina, goat cheese, Gruyère, Monterey Jack, mozzarella, Neufchâtel, parmesan, provolone, romano, ricotta, stilton, swiss)
  • Note that non-cheese milk products (including milk, yogurt, cream, etc.) and soft fresh cheeses should be limited – see full list in “foods to limit” below.

• Fish and shellfish
  • Fish – e.g. catfish, cod, halibut, mahi mahi, perch, red snapper, salmon, swordfish, trout, tuna, walleye, white fish
  • Shellfish and other seafood – e.g. clams, crab, lobster, mussels, octopus, oysters, shrimp, squid

• Meat and poultry
  • Try to buy organic meat from grass-fed livestock and preferably those raised under humane conditions
  • Should be uncured and unprocessed and should not contain sodium nitrite
  • Meats – beef, buffalo, elk, lamb, pork, veal, wild game
  • Poultry – chicken, duck, ostrich, pheasant, quail, turkey
  • Uncured sausages and charcuterie such as uncured bacon, Canadian bacon, chorizo, uncured Italian sausage, uncured turkey bacon
  • Don’t fry your meats
  • For quantity, eat what your body tells you
  • Try to overcome the modern aversion to organ meats (from organic pasture-fed animals), especially liver and heart and also tongue and thymus, because of their nutrient density; make stocks and soups from bones

• Eggs
  • Eggs any kind, including yolks

• Fats
  • Use healthy oils generously
  • Avocado oil, coconut oil, extra virgin olive oil, extra-light olive oil, flaxseed oil, macadamia oil, sesame oil, walnut oil
  • Butter (organic; use lightly), ghee
  • Avocado
  • Cocoa butter (food grade)
  • Try to minimize heating and cook at lower temperatures; never fry

• Raw nuts and seeds
  • Almonds, brazil nuts, cashews, coconut / shredded coconut / coconut flakes (unsweetened), filberts, hazelnuts, macadamias, peanuts, pecans, pistachios, walnuts
  • Chia seeds, flaxseeds, poppy seeds, pumpkin seeds, sesame seeds, sunflower seeds
  • Nut or seed butters – e.g. almond butter, cashew butter, hazelnut butter, peanut butter, sunflower seed butter

• Flour alternatives
  • Must be wheat-free and gluten-free
  • Free of conventional “gluten-free junk carbohydrate ingredients” – no cornstarch, potato starch, tapioca starch, or rice starch
  • Low in carbohydrate exposure
  • Nut meals e.g. almond flour, almond meal, chickpea flour / garbanzo bean flour, coconut flour, ground golden flaxseed (ground regular/brown flaxseed is not as baking-friendly), hazelnut meal, pecan meal, peanut flour, pumpkin seed flour, sesame seed meal, sunflower seed meal, walnut meal. Check they are gluten-free
  • Be sure to drink plenty of water when you include flaxseed in your recipes
  • Must be stored in the refrigerator or freezer in an airtight container to slow oxidation

• Herbs
  • Anise, basil, bay leaf, chives, cilantro, dill, marjoram, mint, oregano, parsley, rosemary, sage, tarragon, thyme

• Spices
  • Allspice, caraway, cardamom, celery seed, chile peppers, chili powder, gluten-free chipotle seasoning, cinnamon, clove, coriander, cumin, fennel, fenugreek, garlic, ginger, mustard, nutmeg, onion powder, paprika, smoked paprika, pepper (black, red, white), saffron, salt, sea salt, star anise, turmeric, wasabi

• Sweeteners
  • Pure liquid or powdered stevia (or the stevia isolate rebinia), stevia with inulin but not with matodextrin, monk fruit (also known as Lo Han Guo), erythritol, xylitol. Wheat Belly says you can have sucralose (Splenda), but it is not mentioned as an acceptable sweetener in Wheat Belly Total Health. Check they are pure/gluten-free
  • The author says that some people like and trust sucralose, while others do not, and you should make your own choice
  • For cooking tips using these sweeteners, see the Wheat Belly Cookbook and the Wheat Belly 30-Minute (or Less!) Cookbook

• Beverages
  • Water
  • Tea
  • Herbal teas / infusions
  • Milk alternatives – Unsweetened almond milk, unsweetened coconut milk (in cartons in the dairy refrigerator)
  • Coconut water
  • Coffee

• Non-sugary condiments
  • Chili or hot pepper sauces, horseradish, mayonnaise (note you’re supposed to avoid soybean and other polyunsaturated oils which are usually the base of mayonnaise), mirin, mustards, salsa, gluten-free soy sauce, sriracha, tamari, tapenades, Thai fish sauce, vinegars (white, red wine, apple cider, balsamic), Worcestershire sauce. Check they are gluten-free

• Odds and ends
  • Baking – arrowroot, baking powder, baking soda, unsweetened or 100% chocolate or cocoa powder or cacao, cacao nibs, cream of tartar, guar gum, sugar-free hazelnut syrup, vanilla extract, other extracts such as natural almond extract, coconut extract, peppermint extract, vanilla beans, active dry yeast, xanthan gum – check they are gluten-free
  • Pickled or fermented – olives, pickled vegetables, sauerkraut
  • Lemons, limes
  • Other – beef broth, chicken broth, canned coconut milk, green curry paste, salsa, shirataki noodles (made from konjac root), tomato paste, tomato juice
  • Wheat Belly Total Health says that you should not limit salt

• Grocery shopping tips
  • Buy single-ingredient natural foods found in the produce aisle, butcher shop, and farmers’ market that don’t require labels
  • Ignore all claims of “heart healthy,” “low-fat,” “low in cholesterol,” “part of a balanced diet,” etc

• For vegetarians
  • Strict vegetarians need to rely more heavily on nuts, nut meals, seeds, nut and seed butters, and oils; avocados and olives; and may have a bit more leeway with carbohydrate-containing beans, lentils, chickpeas, wild rice, chia seed, sweet potatoes, and yams
  • If nongenetically modified soy products can be obtained, then tofu, tempeh, and natto can provide another protein source

Foods to limit with Wheat Belly

Consume in limited quantities (½ cup or less of starchy foods – legumes, beans, peas, sweet potatoes, yams – according to Wheat Belly; no more than 3/4 cup in any 4- to 6-hour digestive period according to Wheat Belly Total Health):

• Non-cheese dairy
  • Wheat Belly asks you to limit non-cheese dairy; Wheat Belly Total Health gives a quantity of no more than 1 serving per day of milk, cottage cheese, or unsweetened yogurt (preferably full fat)
  • Wheat Belly Total Health encourages you to eat fermented foods, including yogurt and kefir, although it appears to imply that these should be eaten in limited quantities
  • Choose organic
  • Cream, half and half, milk, sour cream
  • Fresh cheeses – cottage cheese, cream cheese
  • Yogurts – Greek yogurt (unsweetened and unflavored), yogurt (unsweetened and unflavored)
  • Cultured milk products – Buttermilk, kefir (unsweetened and unflavored)
  • Dairy should be in the least processed form – full-fat, unflavored, unsweetened

• Fruit
  • Wheat Belly Total Health advises to limit yourself to no more than 15g of net carbohydrates per meal within a 4- to 6-hour period
  • Choose organic where possible – if not, rinse thoroughly in warm water to minimize pesticide/herbicide residues
  • Berries are the best: blueberries, raspberries, blackberries, strawberries, cranberries, and cherries
  • Other fruits e.g. apples, apricots, oranges – limit to a few wedges
  • Be careful of the most sugary fruits, including ripe grapes, pineapple, papaya, mango, and banana
  • Fruit juices – minimize, and if you must drink it, make sure it is 100% juice and consume it in small quantities (no more than 2-4 ounces per 4- to 6-hour digestive period)
  • Unsweetened applesauce and unsweetened fruit butters (included in recipes in The Wheat Belly Cookbook)
  • Advice on dried fruit varies between books. Wheat Belly advises to avoid all dried fruit, especially figs and dates, due to the excessive sugar content. The Wheat Belly Cookbook says you can have unsweetened dried apricots, blueberries, cranberries, currants, dates, raisins, strawberries; and to always buy the unsweetened variety.

• Nonwheat, nongluten grains – only allowed in Wheat Belly; Wheat Belly Total Health says you should limit or eliminate these
  • Limit serving to ½ cup or less
  • Use for people who are not carbohydrate-intolerant (uncommon) or kids’ dishes (as kids tolerate carbohydrates better than adults do)
  • Amaranth, buckwheat, chia seeds, millet, oats, quinoa, sorghum, teff,  wild rice
  • Corn, rice (white or brown) – these are increasingly likely to be genetically modified and should be consumed cautiously, if at all
  • These foods should be avoided during the wheat withdrawal process. If you have a powerful potential for wheat addiction, you should be careful with these grains as well

• Legumes
  • Limit serving to ½ cup or less
  • Beans, e.g. black beans, butter beans, kidney beans, lima beans, pinto beans, red beans, Spanish beans. Note that baked beans in sauce may contain added wheat flour, as well as high-fructose corn syrup and sugar
  • Chickpeas/garbanzo beans
  • Lentils
  • Dried peas e.g. black-eyed peas
  • Carob, mesquite
  • Peanuts – Should not be consumed raw – should be boiled or dry roasted; The label should not include ingredients such as hydrogenated soybean oil, wheat flour, maltodextrin, cornstarch, or sucrose
  • Soybeans
  • Minimally processed soy products (which may be genetically modified) – e.g. tofu, tempeh, miso, natto, edamame, soybeans

• Starchy vegetables
  • Whole corn (not to be confused with cornmeal or cornstarch, which should be avoided) Corn is allowed in small amounts in Wheat Belly, but should be avoided in Wheat Belly Total Health
  • Potatoes (white and red), yams, sweet potatoes

• Beverages
  • Wheat-free alcohol: Limit alcohol to 2 glasses of wine, 2 cocktails, or 1 higher-carb beer. Gluten-free beer, wine, brandy, cognac, liqueurs, rum, some vodkas (see below for gluten-containing beverages to avoid)
  • Milk alternative – soymilk / soy milk

• Other
  • Semisweet or bittersweet chocolate or chocolate chips – Wheat Belly Total Health says to choose chocolate that is no less than 70%-85% cocoa, and eat no more than 40g (approximately 2 inches square) per day to limit sugar

Foods to avoid with Wheat Belly

Factor in your own unique dietary sensitivities

Consume rarely or never:

• Gluten, which may be found in:
  • Gluten grains: barley, durum, einkorn, emmer, faro, kamut, rye, spelt, triticale/tricitum, wheat
  • Obvious foods containing gluten: wheat-based breads, pasta, noodles, cookies, cakes, pies, cupcakes, breakfast cereals, pancakes, waffles, pita
  • Other foods containing gluten: Baguettes, beignets, bran, brioche, bulgur, burrito, couscous, crepe, croutons, farina, focaccia, fu (gluten in Asian foods) gnocchi, graham flour, gravy, hydrolyzed vegetable protein, hydrolyzed wheat starch, matzo, modified food starch, orzo, panko breadcrumbs, ramen, roux (wheat-based sauce or thickener), rusk, seitan, semolina, soba noodles (mostly buckwheat, but usually also include wheat), strudel, tabbouleh, tart, textured vegetable protein, udon noodles, wheat germ, wraps, vital wheat gluten, wheat bran, wheat germ, wraps
  • Beverages containing gluten: ales, beers, lagers, Bloody Mary mixes, flavored coffees, herbal teas made with wheat/barley/malt, malt liquor, flavored teas, vodkas distilled from wheat (Absolut, Grey Goose, Ketel One, SKYY, Stolichnaya) or other gluten-containing grains (Belvedere, Finlandia, Van Gogh), wine coolers containing barley malt, whiskey distilled from wheat or barley (Jack Daniels, Bushmills, Jameson, etc.)
  • Breakfast cereals: Bran cereals (All Bran, Bran Buds, Raisin Bran), Corn flakes (Corn Flakes, Frosted Flakes, Crunchy Corn Bran), Cream of Wheat, Farina, granola cereals, “healthy” cereals (Smart Start, Special K, Grape Nuts, Trail Mix Crunch), Malt-O-Meal, muesli, mueslix, oat bran, oat cereals (Cheerios, Cracklin’ Oat Bran, Honey Bunches of Oats), oatmeal (if you’re severely gluten-intolerant – otherwise it’s a food to limit, see above), popped corn cereals (Corn Pops), puffed rice cereals (Rice Krispies)
  • Cheeses made with cultures that come in contact with bread: Blue cheese, cottage cheese (not all), Gorgonzola cheese, Roquefort
  • Coloring/fillers/texturizers/thickeners: artificial colors, artificial flavors, caramel coloring, caramel flavoring, dextrimaltose, emulsifiers, hydrolyzed vegetable protein, hydrolyzed wheat starch, maltodextrin, modified food starch, stabilizers, textured vegetable protein
  • Energy, protein, and meal replacement bars: Clif Bars, Gatorade Pre-Game Fuel Nutrition Bars, GNC Pro Performance Bars, Kashi GoLean bars, Power Bars, Slim-Fast meal bars
  • Fast food – where oil may be used to fry gluten-containing foods and cooking surfaces may be shared; also fast-food saurces, sausages, and burritos typically contain wheat or wheat-based ingredients
  • Meats: breaded meat/poultry/fish, canned meats, self-basting chicken, deli meats (luncheon meats, salami), ham, hamburger (if breadcrumbs are added), hot dogs, imitation bacon, imitation crabmeat, meatballs (if breadcrumbs are added),pepperoni, sausage, self-basting turkey
  • Sauces, salad dressings, condiments: Gravies thickened with wheat flour, ketchup, malt syrup, malt vinegar, marinades, miso, mustards containing wheat, salad dressings, soy sauce, teriyaki sauce
  • Seasonings: bacon bits (imitation), curry powder, seasoning mixes, taco seasoning
  • Snacks and desserts: cake frosting, candy bars, chewing gum (powdered coating), Chex mixes, corn chips, dried fruit (lightly coated with flour), dry roasted peanuts, fruit fillings with thickeners, jelly beans (not including Jelly Bellies and Starburst, which are okay), granola bars, ice cream (cookies and cream, Oreo Cookie, cookie dough, cheesecake, chocolate malt), ice cream cones, licorice, nut bars, pies, potato chips (including Pringles), roasted nuts, tiramisu, flavored tortilla chips, trail mixes
  • Soups: Bisques, broths, bouillon, canned soups, soup mixes, soup stocks and bases
  • Soy and vegetarian products: Veggie burgers (Boca Burgers, Gardenburgers, Morningstar Farms), vegetarian “chicken” strips, vegetarian chili, vegetarian hot dogs and sausages, vegetarian “scallops”, vegetarian “steaks”
  • Sweeteners: Barley malt, barley extract, dextrin and maltodextrin, malt, malt syrup, malt flavoring

• Flours
  • Wheat flours (e.g. all-purpose flour, bread flour, pastry flour); other grain-based flours in Wheat Belly Total Health
  • Cornstarch, potato starch, tapioca starch, or rice starch
  • Amaranth flour, teff flour, millet flour, chestnut flour, quinoa flour (excessive carbohydrate exposure – acceptable only in Wheat Belly, not in Wheat Belly Total Health when limiting carbohydrate exposure may not be as important, e.g. for kids)

• Nonwheat, nongluten grains – Wheat Belly Total Health says you should minimize or eliminate these; they’re allowed in Wheat Belly
  • Barley, corn, millet, oats, rice, sorghum, teff

• Unhealthy oils
  • Hydrogenated fat, trans fats – in margarine and in many processed foods
  • Polyunsaturated oils (especially corn, sunflower, safflower, grapeseed, cottonseed, soybean) – Wheat Belly says avoid; Wheat Belly Total Health says minimize
  • Fried foods, including fried meats.

• Foods cooked at high temperatures
  • Minimize your exposure to high-temperature cooking; stay below 450 F (230 C)

• Processed foods with multiple ingredients
  • Do not buy a processed or prepared food unless you can view the ingredients list as it may contain hidden gluten
  • Processed meats – e.g. bacon, pepperoni, salami, sausages – containing sodium nitrite
  • Gluten-free foods – specifically those made with cornstarch, rice starch, potato starch, or tapioca starch
  • Foods with artificial colorings and preservatives

• Sweet foods
  • Dried fruit – figs, dates, prunes, raisins, cranberries (note that this is the advice in Wheat Belly; the Wheat Belly Cookbook allows dried fruit with no added sugar)
  • Sugary snacks – candies, ice cream, sherbet, fruit roll-ups, craisins, energy bars
  • Sugar alcohols – mannitol, sorbitol, maltitol, etc. (erythritol and xylitol are okay)
  • Soft drinks, carbonated beverages
  • Sugary condiments – jellies, jams, preserves, ketchup (if contains sucrose or HFCS), chutney

• Sweeteners
  • Sugary fructose-rich sweeteners – agave syrup or nectar, honey, maple syrup, high-fructose corn syrup, sucrose. Note that although honey and maple syrup are natural, they’re both high in fructose and should be used sparingly
  • Sugar-free foods – Wheat Belly Total Health says to stay away from foods sweetened with sorbitol, mannitol, lactitol, or maltitol, as they act much like sugar and cause diarrhea and bloating as well

• Food packaging
  • Minimize exposure to bisphenol A (BPA), found in clear hard plastics with recycling code number 7 and in the resin lining of cans

Health benefits claimed in Wheat Belly

The diet claims to reduce the risk of aches and pains, acid reflux, acne, Addison’s disease, allergic rhinitis, allergies, alopecia areata, ankylosing spondylitis, antiphospholipid antibody syndrome, anxiety, asthma, atherosclerosis, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder ADHD, autism, autistic spectrum disorder ASD, autoimmune diseases, autoimmune hemolytic anemia, autoimmune hepatitis, autoimmune inner ear disease, autoimmune lymphoproliferative syndrome, autoimmune thrombocytopenic purpura, Behcet’s disease, binge eating disorder, bipolar illness bloating, bowel urgency, brain fog/mind fog, breast cancer, bulemia, bullous pemphigoid, cancer, cardiomyopathy (dilated or congested), cataracts, celiac disease, chronic fatigue syndrome, chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy, cold agglutinin disease, cramps, CREST syndrom, Crohn’s disease, dandruff, dementia, depression, dermatitis herpetiformis (DH), dermatomyositis, diabetes including type 1 diabetes, diarrhea, discoid lupus, eczema, elevated estrogen levels, endometriosis pain, erectile dysfunction, essential mixed cyroglobulinemia, fibromyalgia, food addiction, food protein-induced enterocolitis syndrom, gangrene, gas, glycation, Grave’s disease, Guillain-Barré syndrome, gynecomastia, Hashimoto’s thyroiditis, heart disease, hypertension, hyperthyroidism, hypochlorhydria (low stomach acid), hypothyroidism, incontinence, idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura, IgA nephropathy, inflammation, inflammatory bowel disease IBD, irritable bowel syndrome IBS, joint pain, juvenile arthritis, kidney disease, leaky gut, low libido, mouth sores, multiple sclerosis, myasthenia gravis, myocarditis, obsessive-compulsive disorder OCD, osteoporosis, overweight/obesity, paranoid schizophrenia, pemphigus vulgaris, peripheral neuropathy, pernicious anemia, pH imbalances, polyarteritis nodosa, polychondritis, polycystic ovarian syndrome PCOS, polyglandular syndromes, polymyalgia rheumatica, polymyositis dermatomyositis, prediabetes, primary agammaglobulinemia, primary biliary cirrhosis, psoriasis, rashes, Raynaud’s syndrome, recurrent aphthous stomatitis (mouth ulcers or canker sores), Reiter’s syndrome, rheumatoid arthritis, sarcoidosis, schizophrenia, scleroderma, seborrhea, seizures, Sjögren’s syndrome, skin rashes, sleep problems, systemic lupus erythematosus, Takayasu’s arteritis, temporal arteritis, thyroid dysfunction, tooth decay, ulcerative colitis, ulcerative colitis, ulcers, uveitis, vasculitis, vitiligo, Wegener’s granulomatosis, wheat-dependent exercised-induced anaphylaxis (WDEIA), wheat-induced cerebellar ataxia, wrinkles

As always, this is not intended to be a replacement for professional medical diagnosis or treatment for a medical condition. Consult your doctor before starting a new diet. This page describes what the authors of the diet recommend – Chewfo is describing the diet only, and does not endorse it.

Get a copy of Wheat Belly for details on why the author believes that modern wheat is harmful for health, and what you can do to avoid it, as well as some recipes.
Original diet book
Get Wheat Belly Total Health for updates from the original recommendations, advice on grain withdrawal, a timeline of what to expect when living grainlessly, and how to correct nutritional deficiencies and health issues cause by grains.
Updated diet book
Get the Wheat Belly Cookbook for many more recipes, as well as more discussion on the dangers of wheat and advice on how to use specific ingredients.
Original cookbook
Get the Wheat Belly 30 Minute or Less Cookbook 200 more quick and easy recipes.
30-minute cookbook
You can also see Dr. Davis’s blog at http://www.wheatbellyblog.com/

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