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Consume wheat products, like poppyseed muffins, raisin bagels, and whole grain bread, and you trigger the 90- to 120-minute glucose-insulin cycle.
Blood glucose goes way up (more than almost any other known food), triggering insulin release from the pancreas. Glucose enters cells as a result, blood glucose plummets. You get hungry, shaky, and crabby, reach for another wheat or other sugar-generating food to start the roller coaster ride all over again.
Repetitive insulin triggering grows this thing I call a “wheat belly,” the protuberant, hang-over-the-belt fat you see everywhere nowadays. Wheat belly fat is really visceral fat. Visceral fat means you have fat kidneys, fat intestines, fat pancreas, and fat liver, all causing the belly to protrude in the familiar way we’ve all come to recognize.
Visceral fat is special fat. Unlike the fat in the backside, thighs, or arms, visceral fat triggers inflammatory responses that are evident in such measures as tumor necrosis factor, interleukins, and leptin, as well as drops in the protective hormone, adiponectin.
Visceral fat also, oddly, triggers estrogen release. Estrogen triggers growth of breast tissue. That’s why females with wheat bellies have up to four-fold (400%) greater likelihood of breast cancer.
Men also experience excess estrogen from the visceral fat wheat belly, causing “man boobs.” This B-cup phenomenon means that inflammation is raging beneath the surface, all due to this thing you’re wearing around your waist.
I wasn’t aware until recently that male breast reduction surgery is a booming business growing at double-digit rates. So are special clothes to help men conceal their expansive breasts.
Perhaps the USDA is in cahoots with Playtex.
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stopsmoking: You are not serious, are you? You intend to eat no wheat for two weeks and I suppose you expect results at the end of two weeks? That means you are looking for a QuickFix – but your body is not a machine with a reset button. You will have to invest a little more time and patience.
I wonder what makes sense for poor countries. I see that Sonia Ghandi wants to wipe out malnutrition by giving every poor family a 77 pund bag of grain, sugar, and kerosene each month.
Anonymous – Fortunately, I'm pretty healthy and don't have anything to get a quick fix for, except a little belly fat. I just want to see if I can stop eating this for two weeks, then I'll see how I feel. When I stopped drinking sodas, I did feel better after two weeks. Nothing I could put into words, just better. That's what I meant by see how I feel.
What will probably happen is I will have proved to myself that I can go at least 2 weeks without, so I'll start another 2 week goal. That's what I did with sodas and it worked out pretty well – 4 years without a coke!
Hi Anon,
260 lbs and 5' 7" sounds typical. Don't be so hard on your self. The version of a low carb program you describe sounds lacking. I have lost 55 pounds over about 18 months and holding. I get it that you are frustrated. You do not lose weight on a straight line on a low carb program. You are not taking homeostasis in to account. That is the body fighting you to keep your system in balance, therefor, you will hit plateaus, and because we are all different, the duration between a weight drop could take weeks or even months. But, rest assured the weight loss will start again. It didn't take a few weeks to put on most of your weight and your body will fight to keep it on, because, it thinks famine is upon you. If you think that just giving up wheat is going to solve all of your health problems, get over it. Our idea of a health supporting evolutionary lifestyle that works is high saturated fat and unlimited flesh with a few very low starch veggies and a few not very sweet berries (1 cup daily mostly blue berries). Don't worry about quantity, let your hunger drive limit you. Eating as an evolutionary lifestyle dictates will automatically stop hunger and give you satiety. After 18 months on our program my diabetes type 2is cured along with obesity. I can't tell you every thing in this short comment, but, talk it over with your doctor and see what he thinks before you proceed.
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Hi, Anonymous–
Sadly, my colleagues are still trapped somewhere in "low-fat, take your Lipitor" land.
Anyone who has tested small LDL as many times as I have eventually comes to realize that the carbohydrates are the culprit, not the fat.
Although not directly related to this post, have you ever read this published study?
http://jn.nutrition.org/cgi/content/full/134/10/2517
The reason why I ask, is because I have never heard you mention the relevant association between genotype and LDL size.
Hello Doctor Davis
It seems to me you are describing a "hypos", just like those my newly diagnosed T1 step-son suffered from, until he learned to over-eat for his insulin dose. This in otherwise normal people would seem to be a failure of the glucagon response, whose function is to release glucose to the blood via glycogenolysis.
Recent food tests seem to show that many proteins induce as much insulin to the bloodstream as some carbohydrates do, which naturally enough reduces BG – as well as storing protein – and the glucagon response then steps in if BG goes too low.
You know this middle aged visceral fat used also to be called "beer belly", and according to some might even be re-labeled "fructose belly".
My point is, wheat may be cause in some, but there are other foods which manage to produce the same effects.
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Umm … Playtex still makes bras!
http://www.google.com/search?aq=f&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=playtex+bras
Also, the "bloop" over the belt is not visceral fat, it is subcutaneous fat. It's the hard bellies that look like a pregnant woman that are mostly visceral fat under the abs around the organs that is pushing outward. Two good tests to distinguish the two are whether you can squeeze a roll (sub-Q) or how much disappears when you try to hold in your tummy really hard (sub-Q fat cannot be held in).
I'm curious about the estrogen link. In women, menopausal reductions in estrogen production are associated with increased VAT — not weight gain per se but a shift of SCAT to VAT. If VAT produces estrogen, is this nature's version of HRT? — stimulating our secondary estrogen producing "organ" when the first one shuts down? That seems odd given the negative metabolic consequences of VAT accumulation.
So Dr. Davis do you mean wheat or all grains? I eat very little wheat (no breads or cereals here as we have kids that are gluten/casein free) but I do enjoy the rye bread that is popular here in Europe with my lunches.
LOL The USDA Playtex line was hilarious. But who knows anymore? Ours is a crazy world where the elites are completely wrong and unwilling to acknowledge it, while attacking others as idiots.
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