Another diabetic who was actually cured, along with several other long duration problems eliminated by getting rid of all grains, including wheat:     (when he says "yours" he is referring to the cardiologist, Dr. Davis)

I was a 58 year old diabetic on Avandia, Diovan and Zetia and having multiple annoying and painful side effects and I’d been reading about the possible dangers of the Avandia.

I was looking for answers when I happened upon Dr. Eades’ blog which led to Tom Naughton and your Heart Scan Blog. Ironically, the first blog post of yours I read was a 2/22/08 post on diabetes meds. Your genuine compassion and concern for your patients and willingness to LISTEN to them was very apparent so I started reading everything you’d written. I immediately cut the carbs and quit the wheat/grains and waited for my next appointment while weaning myself off the meds.

At my next appointment, I told the doctor (fairly new to me) about the side effects and weaning off the meds. He was not a happy camper and dramatically stated “It’s Avandia or insulin!”. However, not 10 minutes later, as he was about to go to his next patient, he said my A1C was 5.8 so I could “try” no diabetes meds. I was thrilled – this meant the low carb/no grain diet was working!

It took me a while to notice some of the other benefits – no IBS, no migraines, the dry, flaky skin I’d had all my life was gone, excessive flatulence gone, 30 pounds gone without even trying, thankfully those side effects eventually disappeared, I can breathe through both sides of my nose again!! (which I would never have dreamed could be cured by simply not eating wheat!), BP down, HDL up and many more that I notice from time to time.

So here I am today, now 61, on no medications (I do take the supplements recommended by you & Dr. Eades) and my A1C at my physical earlier this month matched the one from last year’s physical – 4.7. I was telling the doctor how many of my health problems had disappeared when I changed my diet. He said yes, it was amazing what changing your diet could do. Since he is a pretty heavy guy, I keep wishing he’d ask me what exactly I changed, but he never does. It’s a shame because he could certainly benefit from your advice and/or at least try to talk his other diabetic patients into cleaning up their diets (including my 2 sisters, who will listen to the doctor but not to their now slim and healthy.little sis..).

Happy Holidays to you and yours!

justin_o_guy2 wrote on 01/03/12 at 08:36:02:



WOW!!!

This piece of research verifies everything Dr Davis (the Wheat Belly guy) has discovered and put in his book.

I love this sentence in the conclusion,"When one eliminates wheat and fills the void left by its absence with fruits, vegetables, high quality meats and foods consistent with our biological needs we may begin to feel a sense of vitality that many would find hard to
imagine."

Thanks large!

All this makes me happy I live in Europe...

Our laws are much more stringent, to the point that many hormones and chemicals widely accepted in US agriculture were banned in Europe as far as 20 years ago, in the '90s.

We do NOT use rapeseed oil or canola oil (unless you're british or scandinavian, but that's not my fault...)
those who don't use butter or olive oil for cooking and frying use corn oil or peanut oil, to which we have been accustomed for centuries...

If SOY and WHITE RICE are so bad, how come Japan and China live off it so well ?

Unfortunately that Dr. PatriciaB's website is visible by all, worldwide, yet her research (?) concentrates on US Agricultural products only.

It's a bit like European left-winger lobbyists pucshing to ban or levy SUVs with data based on US Highway Authority statistics... like Italy was teeming with Suburbans and Chevy Novas...

US white flour is bleached? OK, stop buying it, buy wholewheat.

White sugar is bleached? Stop buying it, buy brown sugar, better still, use honey!

Concentrated orange juice contains water and corn syrup? Ever considered buying your own oranges?

Now, when somebody tells me milk is bad...  

I would think it would take many generations of eating one kind of diet for a population to alter its genetic makeup, ie, being tall or short.

You're saying if you were to adopt an Asian kid and raise him in the US he would grow taller? That nurture would overcome nature and its genetic predispositions?

For those of you who have kids with acne (or have acne yourselves), I just found out two of my three Granddaughters (aged 15 and 11) have been freed from acne.  They started the wheat-free thing on 1 Jan.  This morning my Daughter called,.. they are all losing weight, but the biggy for the girls was that their skin cleared up.

Bill,, there are plenty of sources of plant based protein. That wheat currently provides the most plant based protein is meaningless. If people stop using wheat, then some other plant based source will become number one..

Serowbot wrote on 01/06/12 at 10:46:45:


Your participation in it might be less than interesting to you, so why not just go to the threads that interest you more, and leave this one to the folks that want to be here?  36 pages of content would suggest there are at least a few that are interested.