Posted on 11/18/2013 5:17:41 AM PST by TurboZamboni
Remember the days, not that long ago, when you never encountered the word “gluten”? Unless you were an ambitious baker, it was a rare word, like threnody, or anchorite.
No more. Gluten today is nearly up there with yoga and latte, and way more common than twerk.
I know people who do not have celiac disease — if you are one of the 1 percent of Americans who suffer from celiac disease, letting gluten pass between your lips is not an option — who banished gluten from their diets just because, and so do you. They report feeling “so much better,” that they are “less bloaty,” have more energy and sleep like babies — all due to the removal of wheat, rye and barley from their diets (the problematic protein is found in all three grains).
Supermarkets contain expanding lines of gluten-free products. Restaurants — even fine-dining outposts — tout gluten-free options. Some joints don't use gluten in anything.
The market grew by 44 percent between 2011 and 2013, and is projected to reach $10.5 billion this year, according to the market-research firm Mintel.
I wanted to feel so much better. So I largely removed gluten from my diet for October. And while I gluten-fasted, I talked with people who know a lot about diet.
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Sound pretty similar to Atkins diet...my downfall is beer.
Lowcarb beer tastes like toilet water when you’re used to dark craft beer.
Pardon me for jumping in, but......
I do not require a doctor or an ANONYMOUS STRANGER to suggest that I am a hypochondriac when I see the palms of my hands and soles of my feet break into palmoplantar pustulosis whenever I eat too much bread (it looks as disgusting as it sounds).
And whenever an anomymous stranger believes they know my body better than I, it reminds me of "Oprah-Class Media" and Left Wing Nanny Nuts. Plenty of Freepers fall into this class.
Sorry if I annoyed you. I know my shortcomings, being an adult, and would never post something that would be so infantile in description.
I saw a woman on TV tout a diet that eliminates 7 food types for 2 weeks. Then reintroduce them into your diet one at a time. If you don’t get a bad reaction fine. If you do then keep it off your diet.
Exactly!!! Congrats.
Another method is what I did: I ate exactly the same thing for the 3 daily meals for 2 weeks, each meal being different of course (3 different meals), gradually introducing other foods.
I know people that say that they can’t eat the same thing over & over or get tired of their favorite foods that way; I’m not of that typeset. I enjoy cooking with my 16qt pot and freezing food for later (and my neighbors appreciate being my guinea pigs, as the wife has dietary concerns so only half my bulk meals are prepared for her too).
Footnote: People I know claim that they don’t have time to do all that cooking that I do. I also know people that spend an awful lot of time on the toilet (some with the prior complaint). Given the 1% takeout meal I had this last Friday ended up with a toilet seat imprint on my backside and a wasted weekend, from very recent experience I vigorously dispute the “not having time to cook” argument...
And by the way, eliminating whatever it is exactly that I’m sensitive to in ‘processed foods’ arrested my weight gain and I’m happily within target range of my belt size 20 years ago.
No ‘dieting’ needed (just portion-control...middle-age brings with it certain realities...)
How to cook with “gluten free flour”:
1) Pour out entire contents of box into large mixing bowl.
2) mix with enough water to achieve a pasty consistency.
3) Use the GF Flour and water mixture to repair sidewalk cracks.
4) Eat the box.
‘I am the Bread of Life”
Certainly makes sense to me....LOL!
I have a close relative with celiac disease (for real, no joke and not following a fad). That sidewalk crack/ eat the box procedure is correct (not just in my opinion, but hers as well) for about 95% of gluten-free substitutes for foods traditionally made with wheat, barley, rye and similar grains. Most of that stuff is really nasty.
-——I have always been extremely allergic to beer-——
Is life worth living ?
/S
I never said it was in YOUR head, I said it was in MINE. Besides, have you ever read the statistics on the placebo effect? I doubt myself whenever I get sick, except now I know for a fact I have rheumatoid arthritis and that comes with another host of problems because of my immune system. Plus I have TB somewhere, inactive. So guess what? I’m soon (relatively) gonna DIE! Unless I survive the tribulation and the Great King heals me and I live for another couple of hundred years. But I personally don’t believe I deserve that honor.
LOL! Oh yes!
* 52% of the Skolt Saami have mtDNA 'V'...as I do. My mother had intestinal problems but was never diagnosed with Celiac disease. I have no problems. My yDNA is R1b from Ireland Via Denmark. The below post is from the article.
My family and I belong to the SCA-Society for Creative Anachronism. The time period we live in is 10th Century Viking/Saami. For ones who are not familiar with the SCA we study, live and participate in experimental archaeology of that time period. www.sca.org for more information.
My children and I have celiac spru disease which prevents us from partcipating in many of the period feasts put on by talented chefs. In a discussion with several chefs a cook book was inspired. The goal of the cook book was to create a period "medieval feast" that meets the needs of people who are on gluten and sugar free and on low sodium diets.
While researching the history of diabetes, heart ailments and celiac disease I found references from the Greek physican Hippocrates, who wrote about "sweet pee- (diabetes)" and "poor souls who couldn't digest wheat." It is historically documented that celiac and diabetes were known at least 2,000 years.
The use of rice was known as far back as Alexander the Great who may have brought it back from India. In the medieval cookbook Book of Curry there are many many recipes that have rice as the main ingrediant. Soy was known at this time, but was confined to Asia. Tapioca was known and it is written that Columbus ate tapioca bread on his voyages to Cuba. The history of Amaranth is sketchy. It was known and used, but it was considered the "poor man's grain." It is also called "pig weed" because it was fed to pigs. Quinoa was known by the Spanish conquerors because there are records of them destroying the Inca and Mayan fields. They forced the Indians to eat wheat and corn.
Early Viking food was heavy on the meats, fruits and root vegitables. Grain bread was introduced to them when they "traveled" south to Britian, Ireland, Turkey, Russia and other places in Europe and the Middle East. Ireland, Britian and Italy were heavely settled by the Vikings.
Pretty much look at a map of Europe and a Viking was there in that country. Ireland was a stop off point for traveling Norweigin Vikings to Iceland. Iceland has a heavy Irish influence. Thus the spread of the genes for Celiac disease.
(Iceland yDNA (male) is from Sweden and the mtDNA (female) is from Ireland. It's clear that the Vikings 'captured' Irish women to take to Iceland as wives.)
The Saami diet was and still is heavy on meat (reindeer, elk and some beef), fish (char and salmon), fruit (lingonberries, cloud berries and blackberries), dairy (cheese and milk from reindeer and beef) and angelica and sorrel (as vegitable.) Grain bread was introduced by the Swedes and Norweigens and possibly the Italian and Dutch missionaries. Thus the genetic reason for celiac disease among the Saami.
I am of Saami/Swedish decent and both my children and I are celiacs. My Dad has been able to trace directly to the family in Stockholm and Finland.
My personal feeling is that celiac disease, like diabetes and heart disease, have been around for at least 2,000 years. But, due to genetic changes to our food sources I think that is why we are seeing a rise in celiac disease and diabetes.
Sorry this is a long post. But, enjoy.....
“I saw a woman on TV tout a diet that eliminates 7 food types for 2 weeks. Then reintroduce them into your diet one at a time. If you don’t get a bad reaction fine. If you do then keep it off your diet.”
The allergy clinic did that to me, too, in that I had to eat only rice for several days, then go back with a “cleaned out” digestive tract. The first time I went there, they did their usual technique, put shots under my skin up and down both arms. Then, they said that method wasn’t working on me. Had to go back early in the morning and they took my blood and separated out the white cells and put the cells directly on foods.
Then, I had to go back early one morning with a container of roast beef I had made. I ate the roast beef, then had to wait two hours to see if I had a reaction. I didn’t think I would, but over an hour into that, I began to sneeze and feel nauseous. That really was a bad time in my life to keep losing weight and no one knowing why until they took my white cells and put them on food.
I can’t eat anything with iodine in it (forget shrimp, crab, clam). I stay nauseous and my skin turns red and I have chills for three days. They put iodine just under my skin and I have a permanent scar there due to my flesh rotting away down through all the skin layers. It took out all the pigment so that spot is white. It had to heal from the bottom up so I had a raw wound there that made me look like a junkie. I was registering kids in school (was a school counselor) and I put a band aid over that spot so that spot wouldn’t look like I just shot up an illegal drug.
It’s on my medical records never to use iodine on me in a hospital. I had double cataract surgery last year and iodine is what is used to sterilize the eye area so the surgeon used a different preparation to sterilize that area. There is no way he would have used iodine close to my eyes.
Every human body is different but it seems like we would be more alike than we are. I have instructed my body to get with the act and stop being allergic to these foods and iodine and everything that grows outside, but it doesn’t listen to me. When I actually see God, I am going to complain He did a lousy job creating my body. However, this body has lived 80 years and I’m still functioning and my mind is sharp, so I am thankful for that.
I’ve got doctor prescribed pills for nausea and other pills for a stuffed up head from being outside working in my garden.
I sympathize with anyone having an allergy to anything because it is the pits.
Do you eat blue cheese?
Amen sister, I am with you!
I have tried to wish my allergies away but in 73 years it hasn’t worked, I think I am stuck with them.
It was a joke, gwag. Get over it...
And I’ve never heard of you...are you a troll?
Absolutely right on and hilarious, NT.
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