Eating wheat makes us bloat up - and is often the cause of headaches, skin conditions, tiredness, digestive discomfort and needless weight gain too. Lose wheat and you will lose weight. Cutting out wheat should be an easy route to weight - loss but the modern diet means wheat is often in every meal. This book offers: nutritional information and a full explanation of why wheat-free works; wheat's connection to all sorts of different symptoms, sugar sensitivity and cravings; case histories from people whose lives have changed for the better after switching to wheat-free eating. Antoinette Savill here turns her hand to recipes which not only exclude key allergens but also are extremely low in fat and sugar.
I've just finished Lose Wheat, Lose Weight, and I found it a very well reasoned approach to weight loss. Once the authors make the reader aware of how much wheat pervades our daily diets, and how wheat is a top allergen, it seems only logical for those suffering from the symptoms of wheat intolerance to give going wheat-free a try. I found the nutritional information section of the book to be one of the best diet approaches I've ever read, and it certainly is a healthy one.The only drawback of this book, for US readers, was that the recipe section was clearly written with a British audience in mind. The types of fish, which are recommended often throughout the menu suggestions, are those varieties more commonly found in Britain than in the US. However, substitutions can easily be made, and it is not imperative to follow the menus once you understand the concepts of the diet. I whole heartedly recommend this book, and am planning on giving copies to some of my family members who could benefit from this information.
Book is a surprising winner!
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 24 years ago
While the first chapter or two is off to a slow start and were not very elegantly written, the further I got into the book the better it got. The title of the book intrigued me because several people I know have gone wheat-free with great success, including weight loss, but I didn't understand the science behind it. I don't know if I am or am not wheat resistant, but the author pointed out how much wheat is in the average American diet. It's hard to have a balanced diet if we have wheat for breakfast (toast, bagels, pancakes), wheat for lunch (a sandwich or pizza), and wheat for dinner (pasta). In addition to reducing or eliminating wheat in the diet, the author then goes on to include much excellent weight-loss and nutritional advice. Based on the science presented, I'm definitely motivated to try the suggestion of going 4 months wheat-free before reintroducing wheat. There is a lot of helpful information here that I have not found elsewhere, including which highly nutritional foods to eat when feeling depressed rather than sugar-rich junk food. No one book is going to present everything there is to know about nutrition or losing weight successfully -- I also recommend "The 2001 Multi-Diet: Taming the Food Beast" and the "Real Age Diet" -- but this presents additional information I needed that I did not find in other books. It's not so hard to lose weight when one doesn't have food cravings and when one is eating a highly nutritious, satisfying diet!
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