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Wheat, Carbs, and Plus Size Clothing
« on: August 05, 2012, 09:05:26 AM »
Lately I've been paying EXTRA attention to wheat. I know that some of you DO eat a little bit in the form of super low carb wraps and such.I'm not sure if I will venture back towards that or not myself.  Some of them are more soy/flax based so I might try to go that route. I used to eat this super low carb bread that was paper thin, but it was still bread.

I have been reading Wheat Belly and the blog that goes with it (the author explains the science behind it). In a recent blog post, they author conceeded that if you want to lose weight, lose the wheat, AND LOWER CARBS (hello FTS)! I think that even if you did eat some wheat (just a little low carb wrap) you will be OK because you LOWER your carbs. Hence, the common denominator is LOWER the CARBS. 

So this Wheat Belly doctor states there is some type of a compound in wheat that's as addictive as cocaine and drives people to overeat and never get full. I think it's called glaudin or something like that. I've been looking around and seeing lots of people with tremendous weight problems. Something has to be driving them to eat such massive amounts of food and they're not gorging on steak.  It has to be an addiction. 

Furthermore, I went into this women's clothing store called "Fashion Bug" (may be a Midwest only thing) and found out the whole chain was closing because they were bought out. So I asked why the new company wouldn't just keep them open or maybe sell their clothes under a different label and here's what she told me: "The new owner company is more interested in Lane Bryant and Cacique (both plus size clothing stores that carry sizes from 20W to 40W) than regular Fashion Bug". WHAT?!! :o :o :o So apparently, all of these severely overweight, addicted, sick people I see walking around are BIG BUSINESS to this company, not to mention the drug and diabetic supply companies. SO BIG rather than  NORMAL sized clothes (which DO go up to size 18) are NOT considered profitable.  OMG! This is WRONG.  >:(

The more I look around, the more I see how very important it is to watch your carbs. Luckily, there are several movements afoot that talk about eating real food and lowering carbs/elimiating starchy carbs (including FTS) and I'm very grateful for them. Every time I see a severely overweight teen or young adult, I can't help but think they have a wheat/carb disease that somebody makes money off of. Its so sad and yet I have hope. I used to think that FTS was somehow "too low" for carbs and people told me that I was going "too low" and this is "not healthy". Umm, excuse me but I see 40W as not healthy. Pasta is not healthy. High blood sugar is not healthy. >20 net carbs/day makes me feel healthy and fabulous.  I'm sick of people telling me that 20 net carbs per day is "not healthy" or that natural foods will "kill me".  ;D  Keep preachin' it Doug.  :)

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Re: Wheat, Carbs, and Plus Size Clothing
« Reply #1 on: August 05, 2012, 10:36:35 AM »
Its very healthy ;)

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Re: Wheat, Carbs, and Plus Size Clothing
« Reply #2 on: August 05, 2012, 05:52:23 PM »
I agree. To be honest... a few times I have splurged and indulged in a wheat product or two since starting FTS. What I have learned is that my body OBVIOUSLY has an issue with wheat. I get bloated, upset stomach, and the next day I get the hungries. I feel so much healthier when I stay completely away from grains.  :-\ I wish it wasn't the case, but I am glad to be better in touch with my body and how it works.



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Re: Wheat, Carbs, and Plus Size Clothing
« Reply #3 on: August 07, 2012, 08:02:33 AM »
Hey, at least you're trying to be healthy. I see so many people who are just SO UN healthy and don't even seem to notice.  Wheat affects LOTS of people in really bad ways. I have a friend who is a vegetarian and runs 8-10 miles/day and she still has a belly pooch.

I still can't believe that the plus size clothing is so much more profitable  than regular clothes. That annoys me and makes me sad at the same time.  Some of their customers are teenagers for cryin' out loud!

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Re: Wheat, Carbs, and Plus Size Clothing
« Reply #4 on: August 07, 2012, 08:27:35 AM »
This is an article written by Dr Mark Hyman which pretty much sums it up;

"Gluten-free is hot these days. There are books and websites, restaurants with gluten free menus, and grocery stores with hundreds of new gluten-free food products on the shelf. Is this a fad, or a reflection of response to a real problem?

Yes, gluten is a real problem. But the problem is not just gluten. In fact, there are three major hidden reasons that wheat products, not just gluten (along with sugar in all its forms) is a major contributor to obesity, diabetes, heart disease, cancer, dementia, depression and so many other modern ills.

This is why there are now 30 percent more obese than undernourished in the world, and why chronic lifestyle and dietary driven disease kills more than twice as many people as infectious disease globally. These non-communicable, chronic diseases will cost our global economy $47 trillion over the next 20 years.

Sadly, this tsunami of chronic illness is increasingly caused by eating our beloved diet staple, bread, the staff of life, and all the wheat products hidden in everything from soups to vodka to lipstick to envelope adhesive.

The biggest problem is wheat, the major source of gluten in our diet. But wheat weaves its misery through many mechanisms, not just the gluten! The history of wheat parallels the history of chronic disease and obesity across the world. Supermarkets today contain walls of wheat and corn disguised in literally hundreds of thousands of different food-like products, or FrankenFoods. Each American now consumes about 55 pounds of wheat flour every year.

It is not just the amount but also the hidden components of wheat that drive weight gain and disease. This is not the wheat your great-grandmother used to bake her bread. It is FrankenWheat -- a scientifically engineered food product developed in the last 50 years.

How Wheat -- and Gluten -- Trigger Weight Gain, Prediabetes, Diabetes and More

This new modern wheat may look like wheat, but it is different in three important ways that all drive obesity, diabetes, heart disease, cancer, dementia and more.

    It contains a Super Starch -- amylopectin A that is super fattening.
    It contains a form of Super Gluten that is super-inflammatory.
    It contains forms of a Super Drug that is super-addictive and makes you crave and eat more.

The Super Starch

The Bible says, "Give us this day our daily bread." Eating bread is nearly a religious commandment. But the Einkorn, heirloom, Biblical wheat of our ancestors is something modern humans never eat.

Instead, we eat dwarf wheat, the product of genetic manipulation and hybridization that created short, stubby, hardy, high-yielding wheat plants with much higher amounts of starch and gluten and many more chromosomes coding for all sorts of new odd proteins. The man who engineered this modern wheat won the Nobel Prize -- it promised to feed millions of starving around the world. Well, it has, and it has made them fat and sick.

The first major difference of this dwarf wheat is that it contains very high levels of a super starch called amylopectin A. This is how we get big fluffy Wonder Bread and Cinnabons.

Here's the downside. Two slices of whole wheat bread now raise your blood sugar more than two tablespoons of table sugar.

There is no difference between whole wheat and white flour here. The biggest scam perpetrated on the unsuspecting public is the inclusion of "whole grains" in many processed foods full of sugar and wheat, giving the food a virtuous glow. The best way to avoid foods that are bad for you is to stay away from foods with health claims on the labels. They are usually hiding something bad.

In people with diabetes, both white and whole grain bread raises blood sugar levels 70 to 120 mg/dl over starting levels. We know that foods with a high glycemic index make people store belly fat, trigger hidden fires of inflammation in the body and give you a fatty liver, leading the whole cascade of obesity, pre-diabetes and diabetes. This problem now affects every other American and is the major driver of nearly all chronic disease and most our health care costs. Diabetes now sucks up one in three Medicare dollars.

The Super Gluten

Not only does this dwarf, FrankenWheat, contain the super starch, but it also contains super gluten which is much more likely to create inflammation in the body. And in addition to a host of inflammatory and chronic diseases caused by gluten, it causes obesity and diabetes.

Gluten is that sticky protein in wheat that holds bread together and makes it rise. The old fourteen-chromosome-containing Einkorn wheat codes for the small number of gluten proteins, and those that it does produce are the least likely to trigger celiac disease and inflammation. The new dwarf wheat contains twenty-eight or twice as many chromosomes and produces a large variety of gluten proteins, including the ones most likely to cause celiac disease.

Five Ways Gluten Makes You Sick and Fat

Gluten can trigger inflammation, obesity and chronic disease in five major ways.

    Full-blown celiac disease is an autoimmune disease that triggers body-wide inflammation triggering insulin resistance, which causes weight gain and diabetes, as well as over 55 conditions including autoimmune diseases, irritable bowel, reflux, cancer, depression, osteoporosis and more.

    Low-level inflammation reactions to gluten trigger the same problems even if you don't have full-blown celiac disease but just have elevated antibodies (7 percent of the population, or 21 million Americans).

    There is also striking new research showing that adverse immune reactions to gluten may result from problems in very different parts of the immune system than those implicated in celiac disease. Most doctors dismiss gluten sensitivity if you don't have a diagnosis of celiac disease, but this new research proves them wrong. Celiac disease results when the body creates antibodies against the wheat (adaptive immunity), but another kind of gluten sensitivity results from a generalized activated immune system (innate immunity). This means that people can be gluten-sensitive without having celiac disease or gluten antibodies and still have inflammation and many other symptoms.

    A NON-gluten glycoprotein or lectin (combination of sugar and protein) in wheat called wheat germ agglutinin (WGA)[1] found in highest concentrations in whole wheat increases whole body inflammation as well. This is not an autoimmune reaction, but can be just as dangerous and cause heart attacks.[2]

    Eating too much gluten-free food (what I call gluten-free junk food) like gluten-free cookies, cakes and processed food. Processed food has a high glycemic load. Just because it is gluten-free, doesn't mean it is healthy. Gluten-free cakes and cookies are still cakes and cookies! Vegetables, fruits, beans, nuts and seeds and lean animal protein are all gluten free -- stick with those.

Let's look at this a little more closely. Gluten, a protein found in wheat, barley, rye, spelt and oats, can cause celiac disease, which triggers severe inflammation throughout the body and has been linked to autoimmune diseases, mood disorders, autism, schizophrenia, dementia, digestive disorders, nutritional deficiencies, diabetes, cancer and more.

Celiac Disease: The First Problem

Celiac disease and gluten-related problems have been increasing, and now affect at least 21 million Americans and perhaps many millions more. And 99 percent of people who have problems with gluten or wheat are NOT currently diagnosed.

Ninety-eight percent of people with celiac have a genetic predisposition known as HLA DQ2 or DQ8, which occurs in 30 percent of the population. But even though our genes haven't changed, we have seen a dramatic increase in celiac disease in the last 50 years because of some environmental trigger.

In a recent study that compared blood samples taken 50 years ago from 10,000 young Air Force recruits to samples taken recently from 10,000 people, researchers found something quite remarkable. There has been a real 400 percent increase in celiac disease over the last 50 years.[3] And that's just the full-blown disease affecting about one in 100 people, or about three million Americans. We used to think that this only was diagnosed in children with bloated bellies, weight loss and nutritional deficiencies. But now we know it can be triggered (based on a genetic susceptibility) at any age and without ANY digestive symptoms. The inflammation triggered by celiac disease can drive insulin resistance, weight gain and diabetes, just like any inflammatory trigger -- and I have seen this over and over in my patients.

Gluten and Gut Inflammation: The Second Problem

But there are two ways other than celiac disease in which wheat appears to be a problem.

The second way that gluten causes inflammation is through a low-grade autoimmune reaction to gluten. Your immune system creates low-level antibodies to gluten, but doesn't create full-blown celiac disease. In fact, 7 percent of the population, 21 million, have these anti-gliadin antibodies. These antibodies were also found in 18 percent of people with autism and 20 percent of those with schizophrenia.

A major study in the Journal of the American Medical Association reported that hidden gluten sensitivity (elevated antibodies without full-blown celiac disease) was shown to increase risk of death by 35 to 75 percent, mostly by causing heart disease and cancer.[4] Just by this mechanism alone, over 20 million Americans are at risk for heart attack, obesity, cancer and death.

How does eating gluten cause inflammation, heart disease, obesity, diabetes and cancer?

Most of the increased risk occurs when gluten triggers inflammation that spreads like a fire throughout your whole body. It damages the gut lining. Then all the bugs and partially-digested food particles inside your intestine get across the gut barrier and are exposed your immune system, 60 percent of which lies right under the surface of the one cell thick layer of cells lining your gut or small intestine. If you spread out the lining of your gut, it would equal the surface area of a tennis court. Your immune system starts attacking these foreign proteins, leading to systemic inflammation that then causes heart disease, dementia, cancer, diabetes and more.

Dr. Alessio Fasano, a celiac expert from the University of Maryland School of Medicine, discovered a protein made in the intestine called "zonulin" that is increased by exposure to gluten.[5] Zonulin breaks up the tight junctions or cement between the intestinal cells that normally protect your immune system from bugs and foreign proteins in food leaking across the intestinal barrier. If you have a "leaky gut," you will get inflammation throughout your whole body and a whole list of symptoms and diseases.

Why is there an increase in disease from gluten in the last 50 years?

It is because, as I described earlier, the dwarf wheat grown in this country has changed the quality and type of gluten proteins in wheat, creating much higher gluten content and many more of the gluten proteins that cause celiac disease and autoimmune antibodies.

Combine that with the damage our guts have suffered from our diet, environment, lifestyle and medication use, and you have the perfect storm for gluten intolerance. This super gluten crosses our leaky guts and gets exposed to our immune system. Our immune system reacts as if gluten was something foreign, and sets off the fires of inflammation in an attempt to eliminate it. However, this inflammation is not selective, so it begins to attack our cells -- leading to diabesity and other inflammatory diseases.

Damage to the gastrointestinal tract from overuse of antibiotics, anti-inflammatory drugs like Advil or Aleve and acid-blocking drugs like Prilosec or Nexium, combined with our low-fiber, high-sugar diet, leads to the development of celiac disease and gluten intolerance or sensitivity and the resultant inflammation. That is why elimination of gluten and food allergens or sensitivities can be a powerful way to prevent and reverse diabesity and many other chronic diseases.

The Super Drug

Not only does wheat contain super starch and super gluten -- making it super fattening and super inflammatory -- but it also contains a super drug that makes you crazy, hungry and addicted.

When processed by your digestion, the proteins in wheat are converted into shorter proteins, "polypeptides," called "exorphins." They are like the endorphins you get from a runner's high and bind to the opioid receptors in the brain, making you high, and addicted just like a heroin addict. These wheat polypeptides are absorbed into the bloodstream and get right across the blood brain barrier. They are called "gluteomorphins," after "gluten" and "morphine."

These super drugs can cause multiple problems, including schizophrenia and autism. But they also cause addictive eating behavior, including cravings and bingeing. No one binges on broccoli, but they binge on cookies or cake. Even more alarming is the fact that you can block these food cravings and addictive eating behaviors and reduce calorie intake by giving the same drug we use in the emergency room to block heroin or morphine in an overdose, called naloxone. Binge eaters ate nearly 30 percent less food when given this drug.

Bottom line: wheat is an addictive appetite stimulant.

How to Beat the Wheat, and Lose the Weight

First, you should get tested to see if you have a more serious wheat or gluten problem.

If you meet any of these criteria, then you should do a six-week 100 percent gluten-free diet trial to see how you feel. If you have three out of five criteria, you should be gluten-free for life.

    You have symptoms of celiac (any digestive, allergic, autoimmune or inflammatory disease, including diabesity).
    You get better on a gluten-free diet.
    You have elevated antibodies to gluten (anti-gliadin, AGA, or tissue transglutaminase antibodies, TTG).
    You have a positive small intestinal biopsy.
    You have the genes that predispose you to gluten (HLA DQ2/8).

Second, for the rest of you who don't have gluten antibodies or some variety of celiac -- the super starch and the super drug, both of which make you fat and sick, can still affect you. So go cold turkey for six weeks. And keep a journal of how you feel.

The problems with wheat are real, scientifically validated and ever-present. Getting off wheat may not only make you feel better and lose weight, it could save your life.

To your good health,

Mark Hyman, MD
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Re: Wheat, Carbs, and Plus Size Clothing
« Reply #5 on: August 07, 2012, 02:21:00 PM »
This is great!!! :) :) :)

Dr. Mark Hyman's article is something everyone should read.
It helps to explain to the rest of the world how a low carb regimen promotes good health.

I could not help but notice that the word "inflammation" is used copiously.
This article supports the article by heart surgeon Dr. Dwight Lundell.
http://www.fattoskinny.net/index.php?topic=4164.msg41159#msg41159

Hey, Doug...Do you have a link to Dr. Hyman's original article?
It's something we could use when we talk to people that think eating low carb is not healthy.

Thanks for sharing this, Doug!

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« Reply #6 on: August 07, 2012, 10:35:30 PM »
How about this to add to it....  http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7417238n&tag=contentBody;storyMediaBox   I'm so glad the word is getting out there  :)

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« Reply #7 on: August 08, 2012, 08:30:04 AM »
I do Tony, it came from the Huffington Post- http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-mark-hyman/wheat-gluten_b_1274872.html    8)
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« Reply #8 on: August 08, 2012, 10:37:29 AM »
Thanks, Doug! :) :) :)
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Re: Wheat, Carbs, and Plus Size Clothing
« Reply #9 on: August 08, 2012, 10:42:32 AM »
Great video, Shawn! :) :) :)

The truth about sugar, wheat, etc. is slowly starting to come to light in our culture.
It is my sincere prayer that it does not just "go to the wayside" with the passing of time.

Let's keep sharing this vital information!

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« Reply #10 on: August 08, 2012, 03:56:15 PM »
Thanks for sharing guys!



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« Reply #11 on: August 09, 2012, 06:47:27 PM »
Excellent info!  Great articles!

There is a low carb advocate who made  movie who really supports the LC lifestyle. He has t-shirts that say "wheat is murder" and it has the grim reaper with a wheat cutting scythe on it. It's rather funny.

When I see the size 20+ women, I see large loaves of bread on them. 

Doug does say in his book that bread can greatly increase blood sugar. I'm more afraid of a wheat bread sandwich than I am of pure sugar! (although I avoid that too).  Wheat is SO addictive! I feel tons better without it in my diet.