If You Are Gluten Intolerant, Beware & Take Care - Gluten is All Around Us

"Beware, take care of the green eyed monsterprofessionals that the only known to cure for G.I. is
bearing glutenous food " Sort of like song lyrics, butto abstain from eating GLUTEN. All very well and
has hidden message for G.I suffers.good, IF ONLY we were allowed the right to do so.
In this article what I need to draw to your attentionWE are not!
to is, about the frightening, dare I say DOWN RIGHTBack to topic, because BIG business and the medical
DISGUSTING way, we are being treated. Initially thehierarchy are untouchables it seems, all we can do to
blame lies with the food manufactures, who everyprotect ourselves is to be ever vigilant. For myself
day place trusting G.I.people's health at risk. QuicklyI've found that walking the often narrow pathway to
followed by the medical profession who sanction theirremain G.I. free is THE only answer. Okay some may
right to abuse our health in this way, and by doingsay 'that's BORING' but boring or not its safe, and is
this, place us on top of the most vulnerable allergicwhy I've written a comprehensive G.I cook book.
group on this planet.Really I DO understand how often restrictive our
Should we be peanut allergic and therebyfood choices are (especially if you're a vegetarian (No
anaphylactic, because of this allergy we'd begluten made meat substitutes anymore). And please
protected BIG time; no way would foodtake note here, for instance no matter how nice a
manufacturers be allowed to use a LITTLE peanutsbowl of warm creamy oats on a cold day might be,
in their products for the anaphylactic. But for us theyit DOES have a low gluten rating and could make you
can, and do produce low level gluten to be sold to usVERY unwell for sometime as it travels down your
in the name of GLUTEN FREE products!22yards of intestines.
Please absorb that last sentence as its TRUE.Talk about "The Long and winding road". See why
Without sounding like the grim reaper health wise, inwe shouldn't be blamed for always feeling a bit off
essence what's on board here is either quick deathcolour.
anaphylactic or slow death if G.I. "Don't panic "asI'm informed it can take about 12 hours for food to
corporal Jones on 'Dad's Army' is want to say. Thetake that long 22 yard trip. So what if for lunch you
majority of G.I. persons health won't make it to thehad a pasta made from a so called gluten free flour,
final curtain call due to allergic reaction, by ingesting(remember a little bit of gluten is allowable) and then
gluten foods, but there is a minority group who arefollowed with evening meal of a scrumptious pizza,
so severely allergic that G.I. can and does kill.once again made from a product from the same
Respectful footnote here.stable.
Australia's Alan Bond of the Americas Cup yachtNot hard to guess how after accumulative effect of
racing fame tragically lost his daughter a few yearslow gluten meals, how we would be feeling that night
back; she was a diagnosed Celiac.in bed. Shooting pains through our bodies, along with
So really my confronting news to other G.I folk isfeeling squeamish, and anything but refreshed from
that anything termed 'gluten free' is accepted assleep on waking.
having a harmless, small level of Gluten, rather thanAs the ingested gluten meal is low grade (but
the way most of you would have believed (untilaccumulative all the same), we should be able to
having it spelt out) that it should mean a completebrave it to work. And once again will probably spend
absence of Gluten.the day feeling off colour and depressed because of
It's no wonder that on surfing around the many sitesit. And all because we G.I. people are not carefully
and forums for G.I. and Celiacs that so many aremonitored.
permanently feeling ill. It 's stated by many health