Review: Does not follow the recommendations of Dr.Davis at all
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 09 30, 2013
I would rather give it NO STARS but there's no provision for that. She doesn't really know what she's talking about. She says "Gluten is only one of the artificially induced proteins that are found in the wheat these days."  WRONG!! Wheat has always contained gluten.  The changes made in wheat were to improve more consistent plant height (to reduce the need to have a 2nd person on the combine to regulate the thrashing bed) and change other characteristics of the growth and head production of the plant. I think she "read" a different book than the one written by Dr. Davis because she has it significantly incorrect. She incorrectly states "that when Dr. Davis recommends a Wheat Belly Diet,it means reducing the intake of carbohydrates to almost zero."  Absolutely untrue.  While the net carb intake he recommends is around 15-20 per meal, that is a far cry from "almost zero" as she states.  He has 3 lists of foods and on the one that you are to consume the most from, the first item is "eat in unlimited quantities Vegetables (except potatoes and corn) -- including mushrooms, herbs, squash".  Vegetables have carbs in them, not as much as potatoes and corn, the starchier ones but this is NOT a zero or even almost zero carbs plan at all.  It IS a zero bread, bagels, cakes, pies, cookies, etc., plan but you have plenty of carbs in the vegetables. Her examples of allowed fruits is incorrect because she says oranges are fine as well as "apples, melons, peaches and nectarines" which are all the types of high sugar fruits Dr Davis says to avoid. She says to limit dairy to one serving per day and then in her single, day's menu, she has both yogurt (12 sugar grams) and berries (strawberries 10 grams sugar) for a breakfast that adds up to more than 22 sugar grams. For lunch she has 1/2 cup brown rice (23 carbs all by itself, a big NO-NO) and vegetables.  Brown rice, Yogurt and berries are on the eat in limited quantities list for a reason.  You can't eat them all in the same day, something she missed in the book and the lists. What a waste of electronic paper!!!