What do you eat instead of wheat-based foods if you're trying to cut down?

[gentlegreen]

As Michael Greger points out, bollocks or not, "gluten-free" diets used be be unavoidably healthy, but as with vegan diets you can eat all sorts of crap now - the food industry is always happy to oblige.

 

[Orang Utan]

Who's Michael Greger?

 

[gentlegreen]

My diet guru

 

[Orang Utan]

My diet guru

Credentials?

 

[gentlegreen]

Just an MD, but he digests vast quantities of scientific papers and distils the gist.

"what is the best berry" etc

 

[Orang Utan]

Just an MD, but he digests vast quantities of scientific papers and distils the gist.

"what is the best berry" etc

Link ffs

 

[gentlegreen]

NutritionFacts.org | The Latest in Nutrition Related Research

 

[farmerbarleymow]

For a long while now I've been eating tomatoes or apples each day, plenty of water/black tea or non-tea tea and 2 to 3 ounces of nuts. I find that helps reduce craving shit during the day - especially at work.

 

[lazythursday]

The fact that it enrages you 8den doesn't make it any less true for some people. If I eat gluten I'm completely broken for 24 hours and a lethargic moody sod for a further few days. My health is dramatically better since I figured this out. But for some reason this pisses other people off?

 

[ddraig]

The fact that it enrages you 8den doesn't make it any less true for some people. If I eat gluten I'm completely broken for 24 hours and a lethargic moody sod for a further few days. My health is dramatically better since I figured this out. But for some reason this pisses other people off?

this for me too!
I would LOVE to be able to eat normal bread, pizza, wraps and drink lager but not a hope, not doing it as a fad or to be trendy ffs

 

[Sapphireblue]

indeed. i know two people who are coeliac and get really ill and lose significant weight if they eat gluten.

 

[Cheesypoof]

Getting some quinoa this week.

 

[TikkiB]

Fucking hell this lactose gluten intolerance thing enrages me. We're Western European for most of us for the last few centuries our diets mainly consisted of wheat and dairy. We'd have breed those traits out of systems generations ago

That rather assumes that the wheat we eat now is the same our foreparents did. The bread we now eat is completely different. The strains of wheat have been bred to be high yield, plus the way the wheat is milled extracts so much of the nutrients that vitamins have to be put back into the flour, by law. And that's before you take into account all the modern additives such as enzymes. Plus most bread today, whether industrially produced or in chain bakeries, uses very fast fermentation (leavening) to create bread that be mixed, risen and baked very quickly. Compare that to the tradional slower fermentation, whether sourdough or not, and it's a different type of bread entirely. There is a school of thought that argues that slow fermentation is more easily digestible. Fast fermentation was developed after the war and then really took off with the Chorleywood Bread process in 1960s.

 

[SpookyFrank]

I tried the paleo diet thing but you wouldn't fucking believe the cost of wolly mammoth meat these days.

 

[gentlegreen]

A proper paleo diet would probably involve leaching the tannin from acorn porridge in a convenient stream and wading into the marshes for cattail rhizomes.

 

[SpookyFrank]

A proper paleo diet would probably involve leaching the tannin from acorn porridge in a convenient stream and wading into the marshes for cattail rhizomes.

...or the nearest equivalent to those things that you can get from Waitrose.

 

[Artaxerxes]

Spelt

Where do you get this from? I was looking for some for home made muesli but none of the high street shops seem to have it.

 

[kabbes]

How's the non-wheat thing going?

 

[Maharani]

Where do you get this from? I was looking for some for home made muesli but none of the high street shops seem to have it.

Health food shops but in the flour form. Try online.

 

[gentlegreen]

I think my local hipster deli has spelt in various forms as do Holland and Barnett - who have their regular BOGOFAP at the moment.
I will get around to trying it at some point, but not because I am aware of any particular problems with wheat myself - though buckwheat should probably come first. I get a certain amount of wheat as a thickener in my daily two cans of "healthy eating" soup, plus my wholemeal loaf of weekends.

The whole "Wheat Belly" thing has been widely challenged on Youtube by enthusiastic self-experimenters. :--

wheat belly debunked - Google Search