Wheat Belly Slim Guide: The Fast and Easy Reference for Living and Succeeding on the Wheat Belly Lifestyle - Couverture souple

CHAPTER 1

HOW TO USE THIS SLIM GUIDE

Wheat Belly Slim Guide is meant to be a handy, portable resource to carry with you while shopping, eating at restaurants, or navigating other situations outside the home. It can also serve as a quick reminder of the concepts discussed in the Wheat Belly books, including the additional strategies covered in Wheat Belly Total Health and Wheat Belly 10-Day Grain Detox that stack the odds in favor of reversing numerous health conditions, from type 2 diabetes to eczema to ulcerative colitis.

In this guide, you will find a summary of the main points in the Wheat Belly lifestyle, the nutritional supplements we include, how to choose an effective probiotic, your choices in prebiotic fibers, a grocery shopping list, a list of hidden sources of wheat and corn in processed foods, and our choices of safe flours for baking, as well as safe sweeteners and thickeners. You will also find some of the most popular recipes among readers of the Wheat Belly cookbooks woven into a 7-day sample menu plan, along with other popular recipes taken from these cookbooks, and a listing of safe alcoholic beverages. I've included several discussions to help keep you on course, such as the top 10 reasons why we eliminate all wheat and grains, common mistakes to avoid, what to do when you experience food cravings, and how to eat safely when eating outside the home.

You will be reminded that, by living the Wheat Belly lifestyle, we reject nearly all conventional dietary rules. We do not limit fat or saturated fat, never count calories, thumb our noses at cholesterol, and throw notions of moderation, "balance," and various pyramids and plates into the trash. The last 50 years have been a dietary dead end for Americans, evidenced during any visit to the mall or grocery store by people overweight and unhealthy on a scale never before witnessed. We are no longer going to play that game.

Add it all up and this guide is designed to help you succeed in ways you never anticipated, on a scale you never thought possible. Clear your bookshelves of all the books preaching calorie cutting, fat reduction, moderation, and all the other misery-yielding, tortured advice that is unnatural and unproductive. Let's instead engage in a program that is natural and tasty and simply works. The Wheat Belly lifestyle is a life-changing experience, and this guide can help you achieve it.

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