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Gluten-Free Food That Tastes Good!
How To Have A Gluten-Free Diet Because of our dependence in the Western diet on wheat, and to a lesser extent oats, barley and rye, gluten is contained in many of the foods commonly eaten. What Ever Gluten Is It Must Be Tasty! The hard part of cutting out gluten from the diet is that the alternatives do not taste and cook the same as wheat! Some gluten-free breads leave a nasty after-taste that even toasting the bread cannot help! Reading labels must become a part of shopping! Gluten can be a hidden ingredient in many common foods. Malt, glucose, food additives, and vitamin supplements may all contain gluten. Lipsticks and postage stamps too! The Good News Food manufacturers have tapped into the growing market for gluten-free foods. For those with a gluten sensitivity or those who want to reduce the intake of gluten, there has been an explosion of foods available in the past two years. Prices too have subsequently fallen. Restaurants are also increasingly offering modified choices. More Good News Because wheat flour is often an ingredient in pre-packaged cakes, biscuits and doughnuts, in reducing ...
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Gluten-Effects On Health
Is Gluten Making You Sick? Gluten is known as the major cause of Celiac Disease, but is less well known as an aggravator of several other allergies and diseases. You may not think of gluten as being the cause of your symptoms because only those of Coeliac's Disease are well known. The gluten-free diet "band wagon" may seem like the latest fad, but with the large majority of cases where gluten is a factor in illness remaining undiagnosed, it may well be doing more good than realized. The Role Of Gluten In Disease A protein ingredient in several grains, most notable wheat, gluten can cause inflammation. This type of allergy can cause acne, sneezing, or even anaphylactic shock. When a person's immune system reacts to an irritant, such as gluten, symptoms manifest in many ways. Problems can also occur with the skin, digestive system or other parts of the body. Coeliac's Disease-a serious hypersensitivity, it damages the villi of the small intestine causing impaired absorption of the nutrients from food. Dermatitis and eczema-it isn't as well known that gluten can cause dermatitis in some people. Itchy red ...
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Gluten Intolerance-Coeliac Disease
Gluten is a protein found mainly in wheat, but also in barley, rye and oats. It is therefore found in a huge variety of the foods available, especially processed food. It may be a "hidden" ingredient. For example, gelatine contains gluten, and this is an ingredient in ice-cream, jellies, yoghurts and lollies. Also, "hydrolysed vegetable flavouring" is a common component of many processed foods. What Is Gluten Intolerance? Gluten-sensitive enteropathy, or coeliac disease, is a genetically transmitted auto-immune disease. It causes an immune response in the small intestine of sufferers, if they consume gluten. Gradually the small intestine is damaged more and more, and so progressively less food is able to be properly absorbed. Nutrients are expelled in the faeces and not used by the body for growth and repair. The damaged lining can no longer absorb such important nutrients as iron, (causing anaemia and fatigue), zinc, folate, magnesium and calcium. It has been found that it is not only the sufferers of coeliac disease who react to gluten in the diet, but also those with Crohn's Disease, Ulcerative Colitis and Dermatitis. Some ...
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