Book Review: “Wheat Belly: Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight, and Find Your Path Back to Health”

The history of how wheat was transformed into today’s high-yield variety and the nutritional consequences; is educational and long kept secret. The recommendation to eliminate wheat may be shocking to some. Being wheat-free for twenty years, I am thankful, Davis’ book will help more people understand the urgency to be wheat-free.

Monsanto Attacking Safe Food Laws

Monsanto has cleverly slipped a more dangerous provision, HR872, into the house version of the Farm Bill. This bill is cleverly named Reducing Regulatory Burden’s Act, which will stop the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency from reviewing new and expanded use of pesticides (often caused by the introduction of herbicide-resistant GMO crops) and require the USDA to approve GE crops easier and faster.