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    Bring4th Bring4th Studies Healing Health & Diet Gluten Free Diet

    Thread: Gluten Free Diet


    Parsons (Offline)

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    03-24-2015, 12:00 AM
    A couple weeks ago, I received test results from a biopsy done on my stomach. I had gone in wondering if I had an ulcer because of a long history of acid reflux (etc). I was diagnosed with celiac disease. Essentially, its a gluten intolerance. It's an autoimmune disease, which means my body's immune system literally attacks the portions of my body trying to digest the gluten.

    It has been surprisingly easy transitioning towards a 100% gluten free diet. Most of the foods that have gluten I have never really found enjoyable, or I have sworn off awhile ago. I have never liked pasta or bread. I actually vowed to not eat spaghetti a few months ago because it caused me pretty severe health issues. The only thing I will miss is beer, which I drank sparingly in the first place. I have cut out 90%+ of the glutens in my diet for over a week now, and I am already feeling the positive effects.

    I am just wondering if anyone on B4 has celiac's or chooses to be gluten free for other reasons (and if so, why). I would also appreciate any advice and / or cheap and easy to make gluten free recipes. I already got some gluten free bread, which was expensive ($10/loaf at a local gluten free store).  I will most certainly be finding a cheaper alternative locally.

    In the context of the LOO, I am speculating this could be part of wanderer's health issues, especially since I would consider this a close cousin to being an allergy.

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    03-24-2015, 02:42 AM
    (03-24-2015, 12:00 AM)Parsons Wrote: I have cut out 90%+ of the glutens in my diet for over a week now, and I am already feeling the positive effects.

    so more energy, and less fatigue?

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    Parsons (Offline)

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    03-24-2015, 05:16 AM
    Yeah... And my stomach hasn't felt this good in a year or more. It was starting to feel like my own body was eating itself like the ouroboros in my avatar, haha.
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    03-24-2015, 07:26 AM
    i believe in the Flying Spaghetti Monster, blessed be His name...

    i know! gluten bad. there's riceroni & rice noodles... but i can't find instant rice noodles though. food is so complicated & beer & pizza... i guess there's cider & some alternative flour pizza...
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    03-24-2015, 07:57 AM
    Hi Parsons,

    I went wheat/ gluten free a couple of years ago.  I have more energy now than I recall having the first 40 years of my life.  I did not have stomach symptoms per se, my symptoms manifested as joint achiness  and overall malaise, anemia.

    I tried pasta couple of weeks ago, had a reaction.  I definitely miss pasta, bread and cookies. There are alternatives, but they are not very good.

    I find things made with almond or coconut flour are more satisfying than other flours.  The texture is different, denser, but it is filling and high in protein. I have a recipe for coconut flour chocolate chip cookies on my iPad that I want to make. My yoga teacher made them, they were delicious!

    Good luck! It is a lifestyle adjustment, but the pay off in health is worth it.
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    03-24-2015, 10:06 AM
    I'm so glad you narrowed down a food issue! Being gluten free is a good way to pay deliberate attention to what you eat, which is important to body health. Anyway, I'm not gluten free but I spend most of my time in health food stores so here's my tips:

    1) You have a whole gluten free store?? I'd try the middle ground - I go to an almost entirely organic grocery store, which means they specialize in specialty foods. We buy gluten free (oat) bread there (fresh baked and just because it's the best bread we've ever had!) for a little over $5 a loaf. They also have awesome sales every couple of weeks when "specialty" type products are way way marked down. I just see it maybe as the middle ground - the regular grocery store marks that stuff way up, a totally gluten free store might take the same liberties. The local organic store's mission statement is to provide affordable, high quality food - I find their prices extremely reasonable on most things that I've purchased regularly from other stores. They also have way more gluten free options for normal items than they do wheat options (like crackers, pasta)

    2) How to make oat flour: Buy bulk oats. Put in food processor. I've made cookies/pancakes/etc this way when I was out of wheat flour, in a pinch!

    3) As you start exploring different food options, try to wean yourself off of the packaged/processed foods. They just cost way more in general.

    4) If you're extremely sensitive, you might have to start removing certain restaurants from your list of go-to places. Anywhere that makes their own bread, pasta, pizza dough, etc, is going to have extreme amounts of wheat particles in the air and covering everything. I used to work in a pizza restaurant and people with extreme celiac disease would come in, freak out if anything that looked like bread was within 10 inches of their food, but would sit within 10ft of an open kitchen where they were constantly pounding out pizza dough and it basically looked like this.
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    03-24-2015, 10:29 AM
    Just a note with oats: be careful to buy oats marked gluten- free

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    03-24-2015, 10:36 AM
    My mum has celiac disease. She only found out at the age of 50 or so and she says since cutting gluten she feels 10 years younger. She's also much shorter than everyone else in her family and I wonder if it's because her body was not properly digesting much of the food she was consuming while growing up.

    I do not seem to suffer any ill effects from eating gluten (I had pasta last night) but my girlfriend has gotten into the habit of baking without gluten for my ma. She uses coconut flour, almond flour or sometimes ground up chickpeas and she makes some really excellent cookies (store bought gluten-free cookies usually suck) but wheat flour is definitely cheaper.

    There's also gluten free beer . . . but all the ones I've tried have been pretty gross lol.
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    03-26-2015, 10:05 AM (This post was last modified: 03-26-2015, 10:05 AM by Jade.)
    Ciders are gluten free (often), yeah? Also PBR is made with corn and gluten free. Tongue

    *extremely GMO corn presumably, I do not recommend consumption of PBR lol
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    03-27-2015, 12:20 AM
    I was diagnosed with Crohn's disease a number of years back now, which is kind of similar to Celiac in that the immune system attacks not only foreign and dangerous cells and bodies but also the healthy ones too.  The cause is unknown to medical science, but I guess it may be an example of a preincarnate choice or vibrational disharmony.

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    03-27-2015, 07:00 PM
    These are only $5 (or maybe $6) at Whole Foods Market. The Rice-Almond is the best, in my opinion, as far as texture.

    http://www.foodforlife.com/
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