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Summary: I'm looking for answers and this book helped me
Review: This is an excellent supplement for your personal health library.
The author discusses classic allergy components of wheat, gliadins, glutenins, albumins and globulins. Surprisingly,
oats are deemed to be safe for celiacs. Scientists believe that gluten doesn't distill soy which is considered a hidden derivative. Soy-based veggie burgers and meat substitutes are
said to contain gluten. The wheat free diet consists of
Ancient Harvest Quinoa Flakes, Omega-3 Muesli,
Quinoa Flakes, Trader Joe's Gluten - Free Waffles and Lundberg's
Organic brown rice pasta. The author provides a sample grain-free
breakfast consisting of eggs, fruit, spinach, onion omelet,
strawberries, grilled fish taco etc. In some patients,
autoimmune disease is aggravated by an increase in Lectins which
disturbs gut permeability thereby causing bacterial overgrowth
and the classic leaky gut syndrome. The author provides a
scientific discussion to show how the immune system actually
attacks itself and how patients can deal with this phenomenom.
The book is very valuable if you have a medical history which
is adverse to gluten products.This book will be valuable if you have a history of Crohns
Disease, Irritable Bowel Syndrome, Ankylosing Spondylitis,
Celiac Disease and a whole host of autoimmune and digestive
system ailments and manifestations.
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Summary: Going Against the Grain by Melissa Diane Smith
Review: This is an excellent supplement for your personal health library.
The author discusses classic allergy components of wheat, gliadins, glutenins, albumins and globulins. Surprisingly,
oats are deemed to be safe for celiacs. Scientists believe that gluten doesn't distill soy which is considered a hidden derivative. Soy-based veggie burgers and meat substitutes are
said to contain gluten. The wheat free diet consists of
Ancient Harvest Quinoa Flakes, Omega-3 Muesli,
Quinoa Flakes, Trader Joe's Gluten - Free Waffles and Lundberg's
Organic brown rice pasta. The author provides a sample grain-free
breakfast consisting of eggs, fruit, spinach, onion omelet,
strawberries, grilled fish taco etc. In some patients,
autoimmune disease is aggravated by an increase in Lectins which
disturbs gut permeability thereby causing bacterial overgrowth
and the classic leaky gut syndrome. The author provides a
scientific discussion to show how the immune system actually
attacks itself and how patients can deal with this phenomenom.
The book is very valuable if you have a medical history which
is adverse to gluten products. This book will be valuable if you have a history of Crohns
Disease, Irritable Bowel Syndrome, Ankylosing Spondylitis,
Celiac Disease and a whole host of autoimmune and digestive
system ailments and manifestations.
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Summary: This book opened my eyes to my poor diet and extra weight
Review: This is an eye-opening, easy read that will change the way you think about eating from the first page on. It doesn't scare or overload on science, but rather presents the facts on grains and tells a compelling story about why they're not as good for us as we have been led to believe. As a person with celiac disease, I have been avoiding gluten-containing grains for some time. It was not until I read this book that I understood why monitoring my intake of other grains (and loading up instead on more veggies) could further benefit my health. Having instituted some of the changes suggested in this book, I now feel I have better blood sugar control and digestion. I shared this book with many friends and family that have varied health issues and interests. They all found it to be very enlightening - and a true pleasure to read. Every person took at least one piece of new information away from the book that has since influenced their dietary choices (whether it be to eat fruit with cheese to balance the acidity; to choose alternate snacks to rice cakes which are high glycemic; or to choose sweet potatos over white ones for better nutrition and less starch) . The suggested meal plans and recipes are also a great source of inspiration for anyone currently on, or embarking on on grain-free or low grain diet.
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Summary: A Vital Signpost, even Billboard.
Review: Though every diet "simplification by food-type elimination" is necessarily a distortion of nutritional reality, which is complex, Smith's simplification by grain elimination is VERY helpful for many, if not most, typical eaters. Since most grains must be cooked to be chewable/digestible, it's obvious that grain eating is not natural in humans' evolutionary past. (Chew on raw wheat kernels to appreciate this fact.) In addition, most grain consumption, among Americans at least, is unfortunate in that wheat is the most-consumed, the most problematical regarding allergenicity, and the most commonly debased by bleaching and removal of higher-nutrient portions such as the germ and bran, etc. Refined grains, especially the bleached variety such as typical bakers' white flour, are simply an abomination and as much a health scourge as hydrogenated fats which, tragically, are often combined with refined-grain products in packaged crackers and chips of many varieties. In the nutritional counseling I've done for four decades (I'm 72, very fit w/no gray hair, etc.), I've always recommended NO refined flour products, and greatly prefer the grains quinoa, amaranth and spelt over the more commonly available grains. In my experience, Smith's recommendations are very much on track, including her comments on the advantages of increasing pH toward the alkalinity side (away from the acidic side) by reducing grains and eating more dark-green, leafy vegetables. (Spelt and millet, by the way, are less acidic and therefore more conducive to better human biological terrain in the body than are wheat, rye or oats.) There is no single key to the ideal diet, but Smith points most readers in a direction that is highly probable to improve their eating pattern, their energy and their emotional well-being.
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