What ever held problems concern you, whether for a loved one or yourself, the answer is often found in diet and how the body reacts to food.
Many people eat grains daily because they are cheap and abundant, yet science is reporting that these very same grains are bringing us to the brink of an enormous health crisis.
Acceptance of new ideas is often coupled with recognition of having been fundamentally wrong all along --- a difficult admission for anyone.
... few of us really need tranquilizers, or sleeping pills, antibiotics, hormone replacement, non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, or other pain reducing medication to mask symptoms or our awareness of those symptoms. Instead, we need an effective, scientific, cause-orientated alternative to symptom masking therapies. Many of you will find that alternative in a gluten free (sugar-free) diet.
... grains consumption has only taken place for less than one half of 1% of our evolutionary history. We were eating fish, meat, organs, few vegetables and fewer fruit for 1-2.5 million years. We still share more than 98% of our genetic heritage with the chimpanzee. Suggesting just how slowly genetic change occurs in complex animals, who typically survive more than a decade before reproducing.
Attempts to universalize dietary therapies so that one-diet-fits-all influences the flawed claims against meats and fat, thereby encouraging over consumption of grains.
Government-sponsored (and subsidized) guides to healthy eating, such as the USDA's food pyramid, which advocates six to 11 servings of grains daily for every one, lag far behind current research and continues to preach dangerously old-fashioned ideas. Because the USDA's function is largely the promotion of agriculture and their products, there is clear, conflict of interest inherent in any USDA claim of the healthful benefits arising from any agricultural product.
Today's celiac's and a gluten sensitive individuals display physiological depression, intestinal cancer, insulin-dependent diabetes, osteoporosis, short stature, canker sores, and or chronic liver disease of unknown cause, just to name a few of the well over 150 medical conditions that have now been reported from gluten-sensitive individuals.
If only for this reason, it is important that individuals at risk should have enough information to make an informed decision for themselves.
Another indication of gluten-sensitivity is rashes. Yet, few dermatologists recognize this disease, and all too often those who do continue to recommend drug treatment in place of simply recommending a gluten-free diet. Such drug treatment may control the symptoms of the disease; however, the insidious, gluten-induced damage to tissues, organs, and body systems will continue.
Gluten grains are a leading cause of many ailments. Avoiding gluten prevents and often reverses these diseases. Should you passively wait for the signs and symptoms of disease to arrive before taking action?
Grains are dangerous. They are often the main part of the current high complex carbohydrate, high dietary gluten-grain fad. These carbohydrates start turning to sugar on your tongue... turning off the signal that you are satisfied (full) allowing you to eat large amounts of these foods until you say "I can't fit another bite".
Ourselves can utilize carbohydrates for energy, but they can also use natural fat (not Franken fats). The difference is that there are some fats that we must get into our diet (called essential fatty acids) yet there is not one known essential carbohydrate.
A properly prepared animal (and fish) protein-dominated, low-cereal diet that includes some fruit (mostly berries), the excellent detoxifying cruciferous vegetables such as broccoli, cauliflower, brussels sprouts, kale, cabbage, watercress, kohlrabi, and Bok Choy, nuts and seeds offered the nutrients essential to our good health.
In cases where celiac disease has been identified at the same time as cancer, there have been a few cases reported where a change of diet, in addition to conventional treatments, resulted in full remission of the cancer.
A ketogenic diet provides energy through natural fats, not carbohydrates. Although this is a much stricter, more difficult to follow, it starves the cancer cells of glucose which cancer cells need to reproduce. It is relentless reproduction of cancer cells and their replacement of healthy ones that is cancers gratis threat. By slowing or halting this reproduction, the ketogenic diet allows the immune system a window of opportunity to battle these aberrant cells.
This research, and a great deal of other evidence, points to the astounding possibility of our growing gluten (and carbohydrate) gluttony is a major contributor to escalating cancer rates today. The evidence continues to mount. Gluten contains at least five distinct opioids, one being exorphin. Exorphins are biochemically similar to heroin, cocaine, and morphine... and thus addictive. Heroine addicts have long been recognized as very susceptible to a variety of cancers. Moving into a gluten free diet we will experience similar cravings for these foods with these narcotic like substances.
Gluten and dairy products are two of the most allergenic foods in our food supply.
Are we symptom chasing or treating the cause?
Another factor in this mix is that advances in drug research continues to provide increasingly sophisticated chemical tools for masking symptoms and may manipulate and body chemistry rather than pursuing the underlying causes of symptoms. Considerable expenditure of talent, time, and money for symptom chasing invariably reduces available resources for the search for the underlying cause.
For example, despite telling research to the contrary, whole-gluten cereals are still toted as a healthy food and many medical doctors, most certified dietitians, and many health food stores. This, of course, is changing, but much too slowly. The unfortunate truth is that, at a time when literally thousands of published studies are indicating the medicinal value of diet and nutrition, inadequate dietary instruction is being offered to physicians and dietitians. Both groups continue to be swayed by (money) out dated perspectives, allopathic prejudices, the national institution of health pronouncements, and the Department of agriculture's promotional literature, especially the infamous food pyramid.