the Wheat Belly Diet

A friend recently recommended that I take a look at the Wheat Belly Diet. So I did. Here's a reference. From what I can see, the diet is almost exactly identical to keto, although I'm not sure it places the same emphasis on ketosis. Its foundational principle is that you should avoid all wheat products—which is easy to remember—but when you read more deeply, you see the diet restricts you from the same things keto does, i.e., most starchy and processed foods, other forms of carbs like fruit (as with keto, some fruits are permissible), potatoes, etc. Dairy, fatty meats, non-starchy vegetables, etc., are all allowed, just like in keto.

The major difference, from what I can see, is the diet's fundamental stress on avoiding wheat, but as you see above, the diet ultimately makes the same restrictions as keto, so to me, it's hard to tell the two apart. If you hit the above link, one difference you'll see is that Wheat Belly allows you to eat apples and apricots, which keto does not. That's really it. The above-linked article also notes that health benefits from the diet are for the same reason there are benefits with keto, but the theory that wheat in particular is especially bad stands on shaky ground. That said, the Wheat Belly Diet is essentially keto, or so it seems to me, and since I'm going keto in mid-August, I'll be following something of a Wheat Belly paradigm as it is.

If you're interested in the Wheat Belly Diet, there's a bestselling book.