After witnessing over two thousand patients regain their health after giving up wheat, the author, a cardiologist, has concluded that wheat is the single largest contributor to the obesity epidemic. Here, he offers a step-by-step plan for a wheat-free lifestyle. He explains how eliminating wheat from our diets can prevent fat storage, shrink unsightly bulges, and reverse myriad health problems.

"What happens when we die? Does the light just go out and that's that, the million-year nap? Or will some part of my personality, my me-ness persist? What will that feel like? What will I do all day? Is there a place to plug in my lap-top?" In an attempt to find out, the author brings her curiosity to bear on an array of contemporary and historical soul-searchers: scientists, schemers, engineers, mediums, all trying to prove (or disprove) that life...