Food That Makes You Gain Weight

8 Reasons Wheat is Making You Gain

Learn how a “healthy whole grain” can pack on belly fat—and what this dietary staple has in common with opiate drugs
By Hollis Templeton fitbie
 

Eating Wheat Zaps Energy

“When you take wheat out of the diet, you see incredible turnaround in health far more than you’d ever predict,” says Davis. “When someone gives up wheat, there’s a very frequent and marked increase in energy and sleep quality,” he says. While there’s not a lot of research on the topic, Davis speculates that the connection can be explained by the absence of sharp swings in blood sugar and resulting energy slumps.

Swapping processed, wheat-based foods for veggies, fruit, nuts, and dairy may also be precursors to better sleep, more energy, and more stable moods.

“I think that in many ways the whole is greater than the sum of the parts,” says Davis, explaining that we know how gliadin and amylopectin-A affect the body but that there are probably other wheat components that have drastically changed over the years, and whose effects on the human body have not yet been studied.

More: Power through an afternoon slump by snacking on one of these 9 fatigue-fighting foods.

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