The next item that my daughter and I had to eliminate due to an allergy test was gluten. I’ll get into the allergy testing more on another post but gluten is important to talk about.
Most people have issues with gluten and don’t even know it. So what is gluten? Gluten is a protien in grain mostly known for being in wheat but it’s also in spelt, barley, rye and many more. Those with an allergy have to watch for it in cereals, dressings, all baked goods and even crackers. If it’s processed and doesn’t say gluten free chances are it has gluten in it. All purchased items you have to read the ingredients, honestly it’s easier to bake your own breads. It is what makes bread spongy, it is what makes bread rise and it gives the bread some texture. Some people’s digestive systems are having a hard time breaking it down. As a result we get clogged drains (constipation) which leads to allergies, rashes, yucky skin bumps (my daughter’s skin on a previous post, yes gluten contributed). Gluten has been linked to several chronic disease’s and auto-immune disorders, even autism. When I tell people that we don’t eat gluten I then get asked “Oh, you must be celiac then right”? Wrong, niether me nor my daughter have Celiec disease, we were both tested. So that means we have a intolerance or a allergy to gluten. Basically we won’t be put in a ER situation if we eat it like a celiac person probably would but it we eat it we can expect we’ll immediately feel bloated and sick.
Gluten causes inflammation in the body which causes a lot of problems. If you have or are suffering from any of the issues listed below I’d highly suggest you take gluten out of your diet for 2 weeks and then eat it and see how you feel. Or a quicker way, go get a blood test like we did, you might be surprised at what you find.
I copied the below from Mark Hyman MD. If you’d like to look into this more go to www.huffingtonpost.com/markhyman
A review paper in The New England Journal of Medicine listed 55 “diseases” that can be caused by eating gluten. These include osteoporosis, irritable bowel disease, inflammatory bowel disease, anemia, cancer, fatigue, canker sores, and rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, multiple sclerosis, and almost all other autoimmune diseases. Gluten is also linked to many psychiatric and neurological diseases, including anxiety, depression, schizophrenia, dementia, migraines, epilepsy, and neuropathy (nerve damage). It has also been linked to autism. We used to think that gluten problems or celiac disease were confined to children who had diarrhea, weight loss, and failure to thrive. Now we know you can be old, fat, and constipated and still have celiac disease or gluten sensitivity.
Mark Hyman just released a book called The Sugar Solution, I’ve read about it online and watched a little TV spill on it but haven’t purchased it yet. He is helping people all over with what he calls diabesity. I’m looking forward to reading it.
I challenge you to 2 weeks of being gluten free, can you do it? Oh,and do you know what happens when you get rid of inflammation? You drop weight FAST!!
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