02/19/2014
There has been a lot of discussion lately about the negative impact of gluten (or wheat products) on our general health. Gluten is the component of wheat that makes bread dough elastic and helps bread rise. It is also is found in a multitude of foods and even cosmetics. Unfortunately, most cosmetics do not specify it as an ingredient. The book Wheat Belly was published several years ago claiming that wheat impacts us negatively in a multitude of ways, including our skin.
The Mayo Clinic claims that 1 in 8 of us have an allergy to wheat. However, beyond gluten intolerance, a wheat allergy is hard to pinpoint. Dr William Davis claims that easily 80% of us have some type of reaction to wheat. He says that eliminating it from your diet is the only way to determine if you have an allergy. He has had patients with flushed red faces and puffy bags under their eyes eliminate wheat and see massive improvements in weeks. He hasn’t done a study but has seen the improvement multiple times with his patients.
Let me know if you like this information and your own results or experiments with a gluten free diet. Do you think gluten intolerance and the health problems associated with it are fact or fiction?
