Posted on 03/06/2008 2:52:56 PM PST by blam
That's the first problem with it. It has a protein (gluten) that can irritate T-cells in the gut to produce so many antibodies that they kill off the villi in your small intestine.
They take three days to grow back. In the meantime you get to pass undigested food.
It's probably one of the ways the body gets to eliminate certain types of poison ~ e.g. poisonous plants that grow in wheat fields ~ before they kill our kidneys.
Well of course you either drug it or cut it...
Have you ever considered that your husband might have celiac disease or so-called gluten enteropathy? The estimate is 1% of the population has this. It is associated with diabetes. Stopping wheat and all gluten-containing products can reverse this.
It causes mal-absorption in the intestines. Check his vitamin D level. Just a thought.
.......Type 2 diabetes, which accounts for 90 to 95 percent of all cases of diabetes, is a growing epidemic .......
The growth is in large part a function of revised diagnosis thresholds. At one time as recent as perhaps 2000 the fating blood sugar level was the threshold. At some time after that the level was reduced to 126.
That is 140 - 126 = 14. 14/140 = 0.10, or 10%. I had a chance to ask a major diabetes researcher on a radio conference call, why the reduction, why 10% not 9 or 12. He told me it was an arbitrary reduction.
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We do that too. We always cook everything from scratch. But we have always used my mother-in-law’s recipes. Now we are buying all new cookbooks. We have always been perimeter shoppers. Some times I miss potatoes.
We use turnips a lot now, they are lower in carbs/starch. I made turnip au gratin the other day. Tasted a LOT like potato au gratin.
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I had gastric bypass which removes part of the upper intestine. I was insulin Type 2 diabetic. I haven’t used insulin or anything for 5 years come May of this year. I always fear it will come back, but last HBA1C was below 6 (non-diabetic).
Our cat died of celiac disease. He has already added vit. D to his daily routine. He has already cut out all wheat and thus all gluten. Our friend has celiac disease and he cut out all wheat/gluten/bread/beer. he feels a lot better!
Interesting.
WE MISS PIZZA, and tacos, and nachos, and my homemade bread and my homemade biscuits, and my homemade pies, etc. LOL but they are gone now. We didn’t have them often. I was raised on things like for dinner one thin tiny pork chop and some green beans and green salad. That was it. no gravy or dessert or bread. That is how my mom cooked. none of us developed diabetes. My husband has a SWEET TOOTH. I never did.
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As a Type 2 diabetic, I find this encouraging. What we don’t know about the human body is only rivaled by what we don’t know about the environment we live in.
Yet there are those who would tell us what not to eat and that CO2 a natural by product of life itself is a pollutant. But I am not worried. When the second coming, Obama, the second coming, becomes President, the sky will open. Evil will be banished, our environment will become pristine and angels will carry us all to the promised land.
I am so glad I had that surgery. I had been putting it off. What a difference it made. I had three major attacks before, and they were brutal.
When they took it out, it was gangrenous. Would have died in the old days.
The scope surgery is so easy compared to the old way. My doc even gave me a DVD with the whole surgery just as he saw it. Very cool. They actually put a plastic bag inside me, put the GB into it, closed the bag, and hauled it out. Amazing. The guy does 300+ a year.
The worst pain was a blood blister under a piece of tape.
My idea of a meal heavy with carbs is a baked potato every 2 weeks, or 4 ounces of potato chips every now and then.
Having eliminated all gluten containing products from my diet, it's somewhat of a chore to find enough carbs to get as high as 50 grams in a day. 300 grams is normal for the people with those genetic mutations that enable them to eat wheat.
Pizza toppings are pretty good!
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There is no spreading epidemic. It’s not a communicable disease. For the most part you can’t be a Type II diabetic unless you have certain genes. If you don’t have those genes you will never become a Type II diabetic.
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