Wheat Belly Cookbook: 150 Recipes to Help You Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight, and Find Your Path Back to Health Hardcover – December 24, 2012

I Don't Usually Buy Cookbooks. Usually, I Just Read the Recipes on the Web or Read a Kindle Book and I'm Developed Hundreds of My Own Gluten Free Recipes and Converted Recipes to Gluten Free. The Only Reason I Purchased This Book Was Because of All The Hype I'd Heard About the Author and His Books. I Pretty Much Thought I Was an Authority on Gluten, Celiac Disease and the Problems with Wheat and Grains in the Diets of People, Even Those Without Allergies and Intolerances. There Couldn't Possibly Be Anything I'd Learn in This Book.The Author Proved Me Wrong. Nearly 3 1/2 Years Ago, When I Went Totally Wheat Free and Lost 102 Pounds (I Also Cut Out Processed Foods and Ate No More Than 3 to 4 Ounces of Meat a Day) I Was Able To Go Off Narcotic Pain Meds, Cut Diabetic Medication over 80%, Arthritis Medication, 1600 mg Neurontin Daily and Medication for GERD . I Was Taking So Much Medication, I Had to Wean Off It and Still Had Withdrawal Side Effects That Were Terrible. I Still Have Allergies, Because I'm Allergic to So Many Foods & Substances. But, Going Wheat Free and Cutting Out Corn and Most Grains Helped All My Other Problems Tremendously and Even Improved Most of My Allergies and COPD. At the Time I Went Wheat Free, Doctors had me on 27 Meds. I'm Now on 6 and That's Mainly for Allergies & Asthma and Blood Pressure (the Allergy Meds Kick That Up) Some Days My Blood Sugar is So Low, I Have to Go Without Any Medication. DIET IS MEDICINE.When I Read This Book, There Were a Lot of Things I Learned that I Didn't Know and So Many Good Recipes, I've Dog Eared About a Quarter of the Book. I Come Back to it Again & Again. Of All the Great Recipes, Probably My Favorite is the TURKEY SAUSAGE Recipe. You Make it With Ground Turkey and It's Fantastic. That One Recipe is Worth the Price of the Book. I Make It Almost Weekly and When My Store Has a Manger's Special on Ground Turkey Cheap, I Make Up a Bunch Of The Patties and Freeze Them. Then, I Like To Crumble One Up Sometimes in a Few Egg Whites with a Little Nutritional Yeast. It's Much Better Than It Sounds. Of Course, You Could Use Cheddar Cheese, Instead of The Nutritional Yeast or Omit it Entirely. I've Even Played Around With the Ingredients and Made a Version of Italian Sausage Out of that I Love on My Cauliflower/Zucchini Pizza Crust.. The Book is Full of Recipes You'll Go Back To Again and Again.Several Years Ago, I Thought I Had No Problems With Wheat. My Grandmother Had Celiac Disease, But I'd Been Tested For "Wheat" as Part of My Allergy Testing and it was Negative. It Wasn't Until a Few Years Later That an Immunologist Told Me That You Can STILL Be Allergic, Because You're Only Tested For 3 Allergens and There are 27 Allergens in Modern Wheat. You Only Get Tested For the Three. So, Do Not Assume that Because Your Allergy Tests Showed You Weren't Allergic That You're Free and Clear. I Thought it Was Odd That I Was allergic to Just About Every Kind of Tree, Every Kind of Grass, Corn, Every Other Kind of Grain I Was Tested For, But Not Wheat. Once I Abstained From Wheat, My Entire System Changed.Plus, this Author Has Included Helpful Sections That Are REALLY Helpful. He Even Included a Section on Where to Go on the Internet to Find Out if Your Meds Have Wheat In Them and I Found Out TWO Of Mine Had Wheat And One Had Guar Gum In It as a Binder That I'm Extremely Allergic To. I've Asked My Pharmacist Over And Over and Was Told There Was No Way Of Knowing the ADDED ingredients in the Medications (Binders, Etc.) But Apparently There Is. If You Buy and Read Just ONE BOOK on Celiac Disease or Wheat Sensitivity, This Should Be It. ★Thank You For Reading My Review.

It took me a while to get started with this cookbook. You know you have to rearrange your kitchen supplies and appliances each time you start a new kind of food regimen. But when I did I discovered that this diet is good for my dietetic husband and of course, for my heart problemed mother.A little digression: I must say that I also discovered, not from this cook book but by reading the side effects of my my mom's prescriptions that they are causing all of her health problems, including irregular heartbeat, dizziness, tunnel vision, ect.., The latter ones cause her to fall, which is the number one reason, falling, for seniors to die. Can one conclude that we have a health care industry that causes disease, I would say yes. We eliminated all but one of my mom's prescriptions with herbs and food alone. Her indigestion prescription actually caused recurring indigestion. All disease starts in the gut!But food and herbs, and such things as PEMF machines (thins the blood, ends blood coagulation), can be used with safely to bring about health. None of which the AMA recommends for health problems. Is Big pharma attempting to keep the AMA doctors in money due to continuous health problems from their disease causing chemicals? I think so. (Would this not be a War Crime and Crime Against Humanity as defined by International Law? Answer: Yup! Thank god there are two tribunals coming up which will deal with this. I can't wait.)Now back to the book. Reading some of the excellent information about ingredients, such as cocnut flour pgs. 66, 67-68, etc., leads me to believe that this book was written by a professional in food science, and not Dr. Davis. If so, I would like to know her name for other books or papers from her.Recipes are genius. The bread, while a bit expensive (you can search for cheaper sources of ingredients) and time-consuming sometimes are great. I do wish she had included more salads, of the raw (for food-digesting enzymes) and green leafy type, especially cole slaw which my husband loves. I love the wasabi cream sauce which I used much more wasabi and vinegar than the recipe calls for, for my grilled corned beef and Swiss cheese sandwiches. Recipes are very filling, especially the bread, and no indigestion. I can live with this diet and all the while heal my family and myself.And thank you Dr. Davis for caring about our health and not just going along with the program. You and Dr. Perlmutter are the best things going on in health in a long time.