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Cherie,

The snag in a gluten-free diet is that from my time on celiac lists,

many if not most people stay on very high carb high sugar diets. Almost

none (in fact, no one on the list I was on for a few months) has any

interest in going lowcarb, the entire focus was how to make gluten free

high carb, high sugar baked goods, which seem to be consumed daily,

because why not? they don't have any gluten and that is the entire

focus. No matter how awful the food is from a nutritional standpoint,

it being gluten-free is all that seemed to matter. My personal

experience was that reading a day's messages would send me into severe

sugar and carb cravings, just from reading! Like the carbs/sugar just

came right through the computer screen.

So I see they do feel better in the GI, but longterm I wonder how many

will become insulin resistant, and/or diabetic, etc, etc. Vegetarian

celiacs, from recipes I read, do not get enough protein for good adrenal

function, let alone for good GI healing, and are extremely heavy

consumers of soy products, very bad for thyroid function, as well as

causing other nutritional deficiencies.

Just my two cents, pointing out what I see as a huge pitfall in the way

some celiacs pursue gluten-free diets, doesn't mean I think celiacs

should not become gluten-free, just that good nutrition is still important.

sol

Grammy D wrote:

> >From what I hear, people who go on this WOE (way of eating) end up feeling so

much better that they eventually don't feel deprived.

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