Wheatophobia: Will avoiding wheat really improve your health?

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34. I have a friend who was very seriously ill with cardiac problems

He was in and out of the hospital for an entire year--er visits, etc. He was under the care of a cardiologist of course. He even want to Mayo about his heart issues. Finally he made an appointment with a local internist who was getting good results with simple diet changes. The doctor gave the guy a glucose tolerance test, and he was "pre-diabetic". Nobody else had bothered to give him that test. He avoids sugar and wheat, and rice, made very few other changes to his diet, and is a completely different person--back getting exercise, and he lost thirty plus pounds. He looks and acts like a new person. He is completely fine. And do you think he is a bit evangelical about his diet success? You bet he is.

It isn't that something like this will happen to everyone who avoids wheat--it won't! But he had sought help from a bunch of doctors who did NOT tell him that it *could* make a differences.

Therefore, it is worth writing about in a book.

Yes, he had a "wheat belly."

Cardiologists are now just beginning to realize that this isn't exactly a tiny subset of people...........................

It isn't that this is a one size fits all approach, of course. But I have no problem with a person writing a health book aimed towards a subset of people. Books would be pretty boring if their content had to apply to everybody on the planet.