Apparently I have wheat intolerance

[Slothy]

Because my phone is dumb.

[NorthernChaosGod]

I have nothing to add, but you people kill me.

[Miriel]

If it's just wheat and not gluten, it's actually really easy to just remove it from your diet.

When I cut out carbs, my heartburn went away. And came back when I started eating carbs again. Which made me SUPER SAD, because god damn, I love carbs. It kinda annoyed me how many positive benefits there were to cutting out carbs.

Anyway, this is my favorite wheat-less pizza recipe: Hybrid pizza ~ Stuff I Make My Husband

It's really good! I may have posted about it before. I've made it like 4 times in the past few weeks.



My favorite low carb (and therefore, low/no wheat) food blog is: I Breathe... I'm Hungry... - Deliciously Low Carb & Gluten Free

Lots of great stuff there.

I tend to eat a lot of eggs, veggies (broccoli, mushrooms, cauliflower, brussels sprouts), shrimp, and tofu when I'm avoiding carbs. Omelettes are your friend!

[Yerushalmi]

Eating gluten-free isn't that bad taste-wise, but when you're first starting out it's so time consuming finding out what has gluten in it.

I mean, shampoo and makeup, for Christ's sake?

I'm not surprised they make these (they make "certified kosher for passover" shampoo, makeup, and even drain cleaner, which is just idiotic). But do people with celiac actually need them? I was under the impression the only problem was with ingestion.

[Pike]

ooooooooh remove the onions and I would eat this FOREVER

[Jinx]

Eating gluten-free isn't that bad taste-wise, but when you're first starting out it's so time consuming finding out what has gluten in it.

I mean, shampoo and makeup, for Christ's sake?

I'm not surprised they make these (they make "certified kosher for passover" shampoo, makeup, and even drain cleaner, which is just idiotic). But do people with celiac actually need them? I was under the impression the only problem was with ingestion.

They need them. If my mom uses lip balm or make up with gluten in it, her face breaks out in sores. If she uses shampoo with gluten in it, her hair will begin to fall out in clumps.

It affects the whole body. And if you ingest gluten, it can do more than give you just some tummy aches.

[noxious.sunshine]

If it's gluten you're allergic to, it'll make you very ill aside from acid reflux & heart burn.

My sister's girlfriend has CD, so she absolutely cannot have anything with gluten in it. When she developed CD, she just one day got extremely ill with vomiting and the runs for like 3 days and found out that was what it was.

Gluten is a protein that comes from any wheat-based product. Meat won't necessarily have it unless it's somehow breaded. Beer has gluten. Beer has gluten in it - except for Shiner Bock - they make a gluten-free version, but I think it's pretty hard to find. IDK of any other brands that make a gluten-free version.

As far as cooking/baking gluten-free, just peruse your grocery store's Organic section - they'll have gluten-fee pizza crusts, cake mixes, cookies, and stuff.

EDIT: My sister and I went gluten-free for awhile and I had so much more energy. Or well, we cut out a lot of stuff aside from gluten products, but sitll.

[comma]

Paleo isn't necessarily dumb, it's just arbitrary and impractical. You can cut out lots of things that don't have a lot of nutritional value. It just so happens that consuming wheat products is a convenient way to absorb calories, i.e., stay alive. You could eat a 16oz steak and a couple pieces of bread and get nutrients and calories to last you a while, or you could just eat a 24oz steak, trout out about half of the nutrients, end up with very few calories, and need to eat more steak sooner. The paleo diet is extravagant, especially if you consider bread to be for poor people, but nobody's stopping you from being extravagant.

[Yerushalmi]

Eating gluten-free isn't that bad taste-wise, but when you're first starting out it's so time consuming finding out what has gluten in it.

I mean, shampoo and makeup, for Christ's sake?

I'm not surprised they make these (they make "certified kosher for passover" shampoo, makeup, and even drain cleaner, which is just idiotic). But do people with celiac actually need them? I was under the impression the only problem was with ingestion.

They need them. If my mom uses lip balm or make up with gluten in it, her face breaks out in sores. If she uses shampoo with gluten in it, her hair will begin to fall out in clumps.

It affects the whole body. And if you ingest gluten, it can do more than give you just some tummy aches.

Celiac disease is when the lining of your intestines gets eaten away by your own antibodies because it's too similar, chemically, to gluten. As far as I know the only way to activate it is to ingest it - but even if the antibodies are triggerable from other parts of the body, they won't do anything to the other parts of the body.

What your mom has sounds like an actual honest-to-god gluten allergy, not celiac disease.

[Jinx]

Eating gluten-free isn't that bad taste-wise, but when you're first starting out it's so time consuming finding out what has gluten in it.

I mean, shampoo and makeup, for Christ's sake?

I'm not surprised they make these (they make "certified kosher for passover" shampoo, makeup, and even drain cleaner, which is just idiotic). But do people with celiac actually need them? I was under the impression the only problem was with ingestion.

They need them. If my mom uses lip balm or make up with gluten in it, her face breaks out in sores. If she uses shampoo with gluten in it, her hair will begin to fall out in clumps.

It affects the whole body. And if you ingest gluten, it can do more than give you just some tummy aches.

Celiac disease is when the lining of your intestines gets eaten away by your own antibodies because it's too similar, chemically, to gluten. As far as I know the only way to activate it is to ingest it - but even if the antibodies are triggerable from other parts of the body, they won't do anything to the other parts of the body.

What your mom has sounds like an actual honest-to-god gluten allergy, not celiac disease.

I'm finding it a little offensive that someone who isn't a doctor thinks they know what my mom has been going through for the past five years or more.

http://celiacdisease.about.com/od/sy...y-Symptoms.htm

"Gluten allergy" is a misnomer anyways. Celiac's Disease is an auto-immune disorder.

[Slothy]

You can cut out lots of things that don't have a lot of nutritional value. It just so happens that consuming wheat products is a convenient way to absorb calories, i.e., stay alive. You could eat a 16oz steak and a couple pieces of bread and get nutrients and calories to last you a while, or you could just eat a 24oz steak, trout out about half of the nutrients, end up with very few calories, and need to eat more steak sooner.

I don't want to derail this thread much more with paleo diet specific talk, but this is incorrect. Yeah, wheat is an excellent way to consume a lot of calories as quickly as possible. But those are calories that 99% of the population doesn't need. It's also a great way to stimulate your appetite and cause blood sugar spikes which would actually make you hungry sooner after eating the steak with a couple of pieces of bread than if you just had a bigger steak. It'd also trigger fat storage for the majority of people so your body can deal with the excess glucose and not die.

Seriously, unless you're Michael Phelps and need to eat 10,000 calories a day because you train so god damn much (and even then I'm not sold since there are a lot of people who hit really high performance levels in Crossfit on Paleo alone), there's no benefit to eating bread. None whatsoever. And for a lot of people it's actively harming them in one way or another.

Doesn't mean they can't eat it. It's their choice, but let's not pretend is something it's not. It's just about as bad as eating anything that's sugar filled frankly. Possibly even worse since a lot of people are more sensitive to gluten than they realize. For the most part sugar just makes people fat. But wheat gluten can do things that are more smurfed up on top of that.

[Yerushalmi]

Eating gluten-free isn't that bad taste-wise, but when you're first starting out it's so time consuming finding out what has gluten in it.

I mean, shampoo and makeup, for Christ's sake?

I'm not surprised they make these (they make "certified kosher for passover" shampoo, makeup, and even drain cleaner, which is just idiotic). But do people with celiac actually need them? I was under the impression the only problem was with ingestion.

They need them. If my mom uses lip balm or make up with gluten in it, her face breaks out in sores. If she uses shampoo with gluten in it, her hair will begin to fall out in clumps.

It affects the whole body. And if you ingest gluten, it can do more than give you just some tummy aches.

Celiac disease is when the lining of your intestines gets eaten away by your own antibodies because it's too similar, chemically, to gluten. As far as I know the only way to activate it is to ingest it - but even if the antibodies are triggerable from other parts of the body, they won't do anything to the other parts of the body.

What your mom has sounds like an actual honest-to-god gluten allergy, not celiac disease.

I'm finding it a little offensive that someone who isn't a doctor thinks they know what my mom has been going through for the past five years or more.

Gluten Allergy Symptoms

"Gluten allergy" is a misnomer anyways. Celiac's Disease is an auto-immune disorder.

Please don't be offended. I try to be precise in my language (my failure to do so in our infamous makeup argument notwithstanding), and that's why I added things like "as far as I know". I deliberately didn't say "you're wrong", I said "it sounds like". I know I'm not a doctor, which is why I didn't try to state it as fact.

I know that celiac is not an allergic disorder. That's precisely what I was basing my statement on. It's also the reason I added the 'actual honest-to-god' bit, because the latter is often used incorrectly to refer to the former, and from what you said it sounds like your mom really does have the latter.

If I'm wrong, I'm wrong. But if that's the case I'm very curious as to how the physiology of such a reaction is even possible. Celiac symptoms are not supposed to be local - the very page you linked to says as much! As Richard Feynman said, "I have to understand the world, you see."

[noxious.sunshine]

You can cut out lots of things that don't have a lot of nutritional value. It just so happens that consuming wheat products is a convenient way to absorb calories, i.e., stay alive. You could eat a 16oz steak and a couple pieces of bread and get nutrients and calories to last you a while, or you could just eat a 24oz steak, trout out about half of the nutrients, end up with very few calories, and need to eat more steak sooner.

I don't want to derail this thread much more with paleo diet specific talk, but this is incorrect. Yeah, wheat is an excellent way to consume a lot of calories as quickly as possible. But those are calories that 99% of the population doesn't need. It's also a great way to stimulate your appetite and cause blood sugar spikes which would actually make you hungry sooner after eating the steak with a couple of pieces of bread than if you just had a bigger steak. It'd also trigger fat storage for the majority of people so your body can deal with the excess glucose and not die.

Seriously, unless you're Michael Phelps and need to eat 10,000 calories a day because you train so god damn much (and even then I'm not sold since there are a lot of people who hit really high performance levels in Crossfit on Paleo alone), there's no benefit to eating bread. None whatsoever. And for a lot of people it's actively harming them in one way or another.

Doesn't mean they can't eat it. It's their choice, but let's not pretend is something it's not. It's just about as bad as eating anything that's sugar filled frankly. Possibly even worse since a lot of people are more sensitive to gluten than they realize. For the most part sugar just makes people fat. But wheat gluten can do things that are more smurfed up on top of that.

I read about what Michael Phelps eats back when he won all those medals... He does have a legit High-Carb intake.

[Jinx]

I think what Vivi was saying was that you don't need to eat a ton of carbs to have an efficient diet if you're an athlete.

[Pumpkin]

there's no benefit to eating bread. None whatsoever.

There's the benefit of tasting good