These days, gluten is at the center of many people’s dietary dartboards — with too few actually understanding what the stuff is or why they’re giving it up. (For the record, gluten is a protein found ...

People are buzzing about a new, and sort of controversial, book that makes a eyebrow-raising claim: Even if you don't have Celiac disease, wheat and gluten-containing products may be making you sick, ...

Americans love food demons, and our newest one is wheat. The top-selling diet book of the moment is Wheat Belly, in which a Wisconsin-based cardiologist blames the humble grain for everything from ...

Lou Alcalay of Palm Desert was never in poor health, but the weight did slowly creep up on him over the years. Alcalay's doctor, Dr. Joseph Scherger, advised losing some weight and suggested the book ...

Last week, I discussed misinterpretations associated with books like "Wheat Belly"and others that demonize carbs and tout low-carb diets. In other words, carbs are bad and fat is good. This either-or ...

I was happily munching on a slice of warm bread placed on the table by our attentive waiter. Then I overheard a gentleman explain to his companion that he does not eat bread . or anything else that ...

In the spring of 2014, Sheela Pai stopped eating wheat. The 35-year-old New York City attorney had spent years suffering from vague and seemingly unrelated symptoms, including fatigue, breakouts, ...

Is there such a thing as wheat belly? I caught the tail end of a radio show that said whole-wheat bread increases blood sugar as much, or more than table sugar. Can this be true? I wish I would have ...

Belly fat itself puts you at a higher risk of cancer and other diseases. And we can cut our weight and cancer risk way down by cutting wheat out of our diet. This is especially hard because, since the ...

Wheat is a common component of the Western diet and is present in obvious foods such as bread, many breakfast cereals, cakes, and pastries. It is also a common additive to processed foods that do not ...