I havent reduced my intake of wheat products, and I feel fine. I weigh 98# soaking wet.
There’s always a new theory or fad going around. I try not to fall for them.
Anytime you lower your caloric intake, you should lose weight.
I didn’t say I lost weight. I said I feel better.
Its not a theory or a fad. its science.
The incidence increases in frequency as folks age.
Read a bit more about rice allergy ~ they've got that down to the gnats eyelash, and it's a very real biochemical problem mediated by LgE antibodies just like Coeliac, but with a different effect.
If you weight 98 lbs without trying, you are one of the lucky ones who were born with a wonderful metabolism. The rest of us need to cut back on gluten/carbs to live a healthy life.
I’m not entirely clear on the reason, but many, many people do not digest wheat well. This isn’t a “peanut” allergy, there isn’t a real noticeable bad reaction, but this is not a fad. I lost 30 lbs by pretty much just quitting eating bread and pasta, things I liked very much. And I definitely eat more and more often than before I quit, but just getting rid of bread lost me a lot of pounds. It’s those carbs...they cause an undesirable digestive & hunger cycle that’s not beneficial. I’m not going to claim I can explain why it has this effect, but on many people, it does.
I found out about the dangers of wheat about 6 months ago. I’d suffered for years from chronic heartburn and esophageal reflux; I eliminated wheat from my diet, and those symptoms disappeared at once. In this case the toxin isn’t gliadin, it’s lectin, which is an alimentary irritant. Modern varieties of wheat produce much more lectin than old varieties; apparently the gene that codes for lectin production is linked to the gene that codes for the short, stiff stalks in modern wheat.