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5 Things You Must Know about Gluten Sensitivity
| September 19, 2011 | |
| Nathan Morris, M.D. | |
5. Gluten free is a lifestyle.
When going gluten free you are choosing to eat a majority of whole foods. This is the same diet that prevents diabetes, hypertension and heart disease, just to name a few. Whole foods are best described as foods that are not processed.
Processed foods are those that are manually changed from their original structure. This is done by grinding, adding sugar, preservatives and dyes.
BONUS: Gluten free grocery tips:
*Shop on the outside of the grocery store and avoid the middle.
* When shopping in the middle, read every label and choose products with 5 ingredients or less in them (most of these should be spices or things that you can pronounce). “If you can’t read it, don’t eat it!”
*You should try not to spend hard earned money on gluten free items such as bread, cookies, and pasta. These foods as a whole have little to 0 nutritional value. They are still processed and/or refined gluten free grain products.
Google the Internet for ingredient and product lists to help you avoid gluten. Living Without.com and Celiac.com are good places to start.
Nathan Morris M.D., is a board certified family practicioner who is one of the founding partners at Indian Creek Family Health. He practices functional medicine at his satellite office, Indian Creek Integrative Medicine, located at 8 Main Street, in College Corner, Ohio. He focuses on complex health issues from autism to chronic fatigue and explores the underlying cause of disease which unifies the symptoms of illness. You can reach him at 513-839-9944 or dr.morris@healthyalterego.com
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[2 Comments] [2 Comments]
When you reintroduce gluten after a long period of abstention, can it take a while for symptoms to reappear? like a week? I am gluten sensitive and have been gluten free for a year. I reintroduced gluten for 5 days (a lot of gluten) and felt pretty good until 7 days later when I became depressed, agitated and constipated. Would those symptoms be unrelated to gluten because it was 7 or 8 days later?
Yes it can show up 4-5 days later in a lot of people although most start feeling symptoms 24-48 hours later. I would go off of it again and retry the experiment when you are feeling well to see if this was a true reaction. Sorry so late responding.