Posted on 07/22/2015 12:48:28 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Im hardcore, I dont do any gluten, processed oils or processed sugars. I survived 10 metastasized bone cancers, and realized that it all starts with the sugar, gluten and complex carbohydrates.
Tim Blake, Santa Cruz, Emerald Cup Producer
Im not gluten-free because Im not celiac. I think its just kind of a fad diet.
Kelsey Kraus, Santa Cruz, Grad Student
I am not gluten-free. However, I focus on a vegan raw diet so that really limits my intake.
Bill Gibson, Santa Cruz, Sales
No. Because I love carbs.
Ali Kearney, Santa Cruz, Fisheries Observer
I do my best to be gluten-free, because when I dont my joints hurt.
Iris Kavanagh, Santa Cruz, Consultant
That guy is amazing. And since cancer feeds on sugar, he might be pretty wise.
I’ve been gluten free for 5 years except one experiment last week. We bought some einkorn flour. It is the ancient wheat, that gluten sensitive people often do not react to. I made some chocolate chip cookies for the kids and ate two. No reaction. I am grateful to have a way to do pie crusts etc that might really work. Never got good gluten free pie crusts. I’ve been baking for special occasions gluten free for a long time but I am glad to have this new way to do some cultural and traditional baking (holidays, sabbaths, etc). Daily there is no need for breads and glutens. But pies and birthday cakes sometimes are called for.
I once got a gluten free pie crust in the freezer section, because it was all they had, but it ended up being better than the gluten version.
I used to think the gluten free thing was a fad....and for many, it is.
Then after two years of migraine headaches, where my wife tried everything - a neurologist just said for the helluvit, try gluten free. The headaches stopped immediately = 98% of them.
The way wheat is harvested now - spraying the fields with what amounts to the herbicide Round Up - so that the stalks are dead and dry earlier....is probably why this problem is now much worse than it used to be. This ain’t the same wheat we had in those loaves of Wonder Bred.
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