Dark Side of Wheat
AI Summary
Key Findings
Despite popular opinion wheat consumption may not be beneficial to health. These two published articles make a strong argument against perceiving wheat intolerance as simply a matter of allergy/genetic intolerance in a minority subset of the human population, but rather as a species-specific intolerance, applicable to all.
Part 1: The Dark Side of Wheat: New Perspectives on Celiac Disease & Wheat Intolerance
Part 2: Opening Pandora’s Bread Box: The Critical Role of Wheat Lectin in Human Disease.
Key: CK(#) = Cumulative Knowledge, a measure of evidence quality or strength AC(#) = Article Count, the number of articles that have accumulated on the topic thus far.
Articles in this Guide
17 articles
Wheat: 200 Clinically Confirmed Reasons Not To Eat It
With sales of foods labeled gluten free now reaching over 6 billion dollars a year, something truly profound is happening to the way in which Americans are perceiving the role of wheat in their diets...
Sayer Ji
6 min
Wheat Gluten Newly Confirmed To Promote Weight Gain
New research confirms some of the basic tenets of the Wheat Belly, a book by Dr. William Davis, which argues that wheat avoidance results in healthy weight loss. Published in Journal of Nutritional B...
Sayer Ji
4 min
A Gluten for Punishment: the Whole Grain Assault on Health
From Few to You Among thoughtful and informed medical providers and public alike, there is an ongoing transition toward recognizing adverse health effects from grains as being common and normal rat...
ndaleymail
15 min
Wheat As A Common Cause of Dyspepsia and Irritable Bowel
Could common complaints of bloating, upper abdominal discomfort and indigestion following a meal, and even the increasingly prevalent complaint lazily labeled 'irritable bowel syndrome' by practition...
Sayer Ji
5 min
Wheat Contains Not One, But 23K Potentially Harmful Proteins
Despite popular misconceptions gluten is only the tip of a very large iceberg. There are actually 23,788 distinct proteins that have been identified in wheat, any one of which could incite a negative...
Sayer Ji
4 min
Wheat's Cardiotoxicity: As Serious As A Heart Attack
The "diseases of affluence," as they are known, include diabetes, heart disease, arthritis, osteoporosis and cancer, and are sometimes referred to as the "Western disease" paradigm. They emerge larg...
Sayer Ji
9 min
Gluten-Intolerant: Myth, Meme or Epidemic?
Gluten-free foods seem to be popping up everywhere. Is this just another diet fad? Just five years ago, asking your server for gluten-free choices would get you the proverbial blank stare. Today it's...
Islander
9 min
Helpful Tips For Healing A Gluten-Ravaged Body
Many of us ate wheat and gluten-containing products from infanthood into adulthood, unaware of the many adverse health effects that came with this socially–sanctioned dietary practice, until our bodi...
Sayer Ji
4 min
Wheat: A Missing Piece In the Autism Puzzle
People often balk at the concept that a gluten-free diet may improve the condition of autistic children. For so many who have tried it, the proof is not in academic publications but in the (gluten fr...
Sayer Ji
5 min
Do Hidden Opiates in Our Food Explain Food Addictions?
Food addictions are not strictly "psychological" problems, but have a hard-wired, organic component.
Sayer Ji
7 min
Rice, Potato, and Tomato May be as Inflammatory as Wheat
In this article a key question is brought to the forefront, namely, is eating wheat and gluten free enough to obtain optimal health? The mass market has done quite a good job of accommodating the glu...
<p>Sayer Ji is the founder and chair of GreenMedInfo.com. His writings have been published in the Wellbeing Journal, the Journal of Gluten Sensitivity, and have been featured on numerous websites, including Mercola.com, NaturalNews.com, Infowars.com, Care2.com. His critically acclaimed essay series The Dark Side of Wheat opens up a new perspective on the universal, human-species specific<strong> </strong><strong><a href="/product/dark-side-wheat-pdf-document">toxicity of wheat</a></strong>, and is now available for PDF download.</p>
8 min
Naming Convention: When Celiac becomes a Disease
Global awareness about Celiac disease (CD) is growing—unfortunately, along with some rather unhelpful perceptions It doesn’t help that "celiac disease" has become a generic blanket term not unlike ho...
<p>Rivkah Roth DO DNM<sup>®</sup>, author of <em>"At Risk? Avoid Diabetes by Recognizing Early Risk - A Natural Medicine View"</em> and the <em>"DIABETES-Series Little Books"</em> is a semi-retired natural health professional and lecturer with doctorates in osteopathy, natural medicine, acupuncture and traditional Chinese medicine. She practiced and taught in Canada, Switzerland and Israel, and specializes in non-celiac and celiac gluten sensitivity, early diabetes risk recognition and avoidance, fibromyalgia and other autoimmune and inflammation-related pain and structural challenges. For further information: <a href="http://www.rivkahroth.com/">www.rivkahroth.com</a></p>
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