Review: Lots of inaccuracies in this explanation.
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 12 3, 2013
I don`t  know if this author forgot what Dr Davis wrote or lost her book but she doesn't have the diet described accurately in this book.Dr. Davis never defines what he means by eating something on a limited basis but I doubt he meant cutting it out for only 1 meal a day when she says it is okay to eat them no more than 2 servings a day.  If you eat any of the foods on the limited list for 2 meals a day as she suggests, you'll never hit his 15 net carbs per meal target.The reason the "non-wheat" carbs or starches are cut out or limited is  the starchy veggies and high sugar fruits and breads of any cereal do NOT have the fiber everyone raves about to counteract the sugars so they spike the blood glucose any way.  They ALL turn to sugar!The fiber in the unlimited veggies is what keeps the net carbs at bay and that is why they are "unlimited". They are the heathiest group in our diets for carbs. They have the highest nutrient density gram for gram of food. They have more potassium than bananas or oranges ever thought of having.She mentions the low level of fortification of breads and cereals not even realizing they were put there because when the outer portions of the old type of wheat and other cereal kernels were stripped out, so were the few vitamins and minerals.  So the white bread people were forced to put them back in.  As soon as you start eating your veggies in significant quantities again, you'll get them all back.  She doesn't realize that.  She tells you to be careful of this when you cutout wheat!She has no clue as to why butter, milk, cottage cheese and yogurt are on the limited list or what the limited list means. Milk, cottage cheese and yogurt (even if there is "no added sugar"), all have milk sugar in them to the level of 8-12 grams per 8 ounces liquid milk even when reconstituted, low fat, no fat, 2%, etc.  This makes it very easy to go over the 15 grams net carbs recommended per meal for the best dietary lifestyle recommended by Dr. Davis.She's concerned about calcium intake when you don't eat bread. Not to worry, there's more calcium in 1 glass of 8 ounces unsweetened almond milk (30 calories vs 90-150 same quantity of liquid) but she doesn't know that.  This is why Dr Davis mentions it as what you can drink and use as a milk replacement in drinking and cooking.Fruits are strawberries, blackberries, raspberries blueberries, fresh cranberries and cherries. He NEVER says oranges and apples are okay.  She left these off the high sugar fruits list along with the mangos, papayas, bananas, etc., and dried fruits of any kind including dried cherries, dried cranberries, dried strawberries because sugar is not only concentrated in the drying process but usually added as well.She has no clue as to why butter, milk, cottage cheese and yogurt are on the limited list or what the limited list means. Milk, cottage cheese and yogurt (even if there is "no added sugar"), all have milk sugar in them to the level of 8-12 grams per 8 ounces liquid milk even when reconstituted. This makes it very easy to go over the 15 grams net carbs recommended for the best dietary lifestyle recommended by Dr. Davis.No where does he EVER say it is okay to eat various other flour types like rye, oats, etc.  She says don't eat cereals and then recommends oat bran, rye flakes, cream of rice and oatmeal!  Even at free it is a waste of time.  A wheat Belly follower who has lost weight and improved her diabetes and blood lipid values  by following the correct diet plan of Dr. Davis.