Gluten or not to Gluten?

all I can contribute is that I've had gluten free cookies before that were fantastic.

I can say that gluten free tortilla chips are pretty tasty.

@thehandlebar, check out the whole30: http://whole30.com/

that diet is to help find out what is causing you problems in your diet. my wife & did it a few months back and we both found that milk gives us upset stomachs and makes us gassy. it also helped me lose like 12lbs with just dietary changes.

I get mild IBS (irritable bowel syndrome) here and there, but I've never been able to pinpoint what triggers it because it's usually pretty infrequent. a dicyclomine pill usually fixes me up until the next attack.

Part of the issue is the processed foods we eat. I have to admit that when my wife give up sweets and meat for Lent I typically lose a few pounds and feel better not having the junk food. We grow a lot of of our own vegetables and can things like speghtti sauce. My wife has issues with her stomach if she eats certain things but switching to more natural foods has helped her.

The flour you buy in the store has been processed to the point of being useless. Here is a difference on the types of wheats:

http://www.onlygrainmills.com/a-wide-var...-of-wheat/

Growing up I didn't know a single person with peanut alergies and we would have peanut butter cookies in class. The same goes for gluten and dairy alergies. Something has changed and people are having more issues with what we eat. Our solution has to go back to growing a lot of our food and watching how much processed food we get.

Growing up I didn't know a single person with peanut alergies and we would have peanut butter cookies in class.

And I have peanut allergies!

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@thehandlebar, check out the whole30: http://whole30.com/

that diet is to help find out what is causing you problems in your diet. my wife & did it a few months back and we both found that milk gives us upset stomachs and makes us gassy. it also helped me lose like 12lbs with just dietary changes.

I get mild IBS (irritable bowel syndrome) here and there, but I've never been able to pinpoint what triggers it because it's usually pretty infrequent. a dicyclomine pill usually fixes me up until the next attack.

Thank you Andrew, I will definitely check it out!

It's not at all strange that tortilla chips would be gluten free since corn contains no gluten.

I take stuff like that to extremes when at the supermarket. I just had to ask if they had gluten free water. Just so that I could get in on the gluten free craze too.

After doing the gluten free water thing I did consider proclaiming Krampert's Finest products to be gluten free as well as the packaging. I can't remember what I saw at the supermarket proudly proclaiming itself as being gluten free that prompted all of that, but it was something that couldn't contain gluten even if they had tried to include it. The label that I saw was absolutely ridiculous.

General Mills just rebranded Honey Nut Cheerios with a label "Now Gluten Free!"

And just last week there was a mass recall on them because,
... take a guess....
It contained gluten.

General Mills just rebranded Honey Nut Cheerios with a label "Now Gluten Free!"

And just last week there was a mass recall on them because,
... take a guess....
It contained gluten.

best bet is to try the diet I posted above, then slowly reintroduce items after the 30 days to see what irritates your stomach/body.

ShadowDad, I know it sounds funny but you need to understand the problem. Gluten is one of the most contaminating substances on the planet, and it takes only several PPM to trigger a response in an intolerant/allergic person. There's a saying "eat gluten free, because the world will make it low-gluten", as in you'll get it anyway so try and reduce your exposure as much as you can.
TheHandleBar, my wife and I switched a few months ago to ~90% paleo diet (similar to the whole30), and I can tell you that even if it's placebo, were feeling better. The most notable change is more energy, less digestion problems, migraines are gone, and no more acid reflux. I don't claim that it heals anything, or that it's the best thing since sliced bread (sorry for that ), but we see symptoms return when we eat too much processed foods, the worse culprit being vegetable/refined oils.
Regarding reflux, sometimes it's LOW acid levels that hinders foods digestion that causes back pressure/reflux, that mimics high acid levels and the common solution is antacids which aggravates the problem in a vicious circle.

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I understand that and I don't mock folks with actual problems. I have a few friends with the problem and I would never do that. I mock the folks who have suddenly latched onto the anti-gluten bandwagon just because they're lemmings operating out of brains not their own. They have no symptoms and no problems, but they need to be gluten free just to fit in. Yes, I have those friends as well. Whoops, acquaintances, not friends.