Sourced from: Infinite Health Blog, by Dr. Davis,
originally posted on the Wheat Belly Blog: 2011-12-18
Wheat-liberated teen
Wheat Belly Blog reader Heather left this wonderful comment
about her teenager’s experience with wheat-freedom:
I am very fortunate. I stumbled upon Mark Sisson’s blog in August of this year
and found myself unable to stop reading. I started the “Primal”
lifestyle that day. Grains were the first thing to go.
After a week of living this way, my 17 year-old son
asked me what I was doing that was making such a difference in my mood and
energy level. After explaining it to him, he immediately asked if he could try it too.
Neither of us have looked back since. His acne is
gone, his energy level is incredible, he lost 30 pounds that neither of
us thought he had to lose, his muscle mass is increasing by leaps and bounds,
and he is out-performing all of the school athletes that he used to be jealous of.
What is really funny is that he is taking a Health
class and Culinary class for his senior year. I hear complaints every weekday
about how “misguided” (edited version of what he really calls it)
the information he gets in his health class is. He is continually arguing, in a
respectful way, with his teacher. He answers the questions on tests the way he
has to in order to get a good grade, but he knows that the information is wrong.
He also complains about having to taste the baked goods in culinary class in order
to get a good grade. On those days he always feels terrible in the evening. He
needs no more proof that this way of life is healthy.
I am so happy that he will never have to experience
the health problems that I did before I discovered what poison wheat is. He gets
to experience good heath from an early age!
(Mark Sisson is one of the leading proponents of the
Paleo-type movement. Wheat elimination has been one of their principal concepts.)
I experienced something similar with my son while in high
school: Arguing with health class teachers, all of whom agreed that “healthy
whole grains” were an absolute requirement for overall health. Does it mean
that our wheat-free empowered teens gets F’s on their report cards for
expressing their wheat-free, anti-grain opinions?
I’ll take an F on a report card any day in exchange
for their genuine health and high performance.
