Eating Gluten-Free: Medical Conditions And Meal Ideas
By Chef Murph
Without a doubt, you’ve heard numerous health experts preach about going gluten-free. Do you have the slightest clue what gluten is? If you are like most women (especially middle-aged and older women), old habits are hard to change.
Gluten is found in wheat, and you likely grew up with wheat products around your home, such as bread and pastries, flour, and snacks, and grew up just fine, right? Well… let’s just say things could have been even better.
The fact is, going gluten-free really is beneficial to our health, and more people really should adopt to this lifestyle.
This also means adapting your cooking style to the new ingredients. However, before we delve into some great gluten-free meal ideas, let’s have a quick look at the dangers of gluten in our diet.
Celiac Disease
This is a serious disease resulting from the immune system responding to gluten as a foreign body. The result is a breakdown in the lining of the intestinal system, making for bloody stools, poor absorption and excruciating pain.
Brain Disorders
This is again related to the immune system developing a response to gluten and causing inflammation of surrounding organs. This can predispose the individual to serious neurological conditions like epilepsy.
Skin Diseases
Again, related to the sensitizing autoimmune system. The result is damage to the cells of the skin and inflammatory rashes
The pattern developing is that most of the effects of gluten are related to having a sensitive immune reaction to its consumption. Though originally thought of as rare to encounter this sensitivity, it is now known that more than a third of all people are gluten insensitive.
Removing gluten from the diet may be beneficial to anyone, as gluten is not considered an essential source of protein.
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All the best
Chef Murph
