EmbracingHealth: 5 Ways to Replace Gluten in Your Diet

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Dear Carlene,

Gluten is a highly allergenic type of protein found in the

grains of cereals such as wheat, rye, barley, oats and

spelt. Wheat has the highest proportion of gluten

out of all the grains, containing about 80% of it's total

protein as gluten, which is why intolerance to wheat and

wheat products is the most common.

In modern society commercially grown wheat is extensively

hybridized, and in such a way that it has been engineered

to contain much more gluten than it did just a few generations

ago. This wheat that has been bred specifically for a higher

gluten content, is the likely reason that we are seeing much

more gluten sensitivity that we have in the past. Grains with

a higher gluten content are much prized in the bread baking

industry, as they produce a much lighter and fluffier bread.

Most people do well with reducing or eliminating gluten

containing products out of their diet:

1) Replace bread with dehydrated flax crackers or use

a large cos lettuce leaf or nori sheet as the base for a wrap

type sandwich. If you still choose to have bread, look for

ones that use the safe grains: Buckwheat, rice, corn, quinoa,

and amaranth, (although buckwheat is not actually a grain!)

2) Replace cooked oat porridge with sprouted buckwheat

porridge: See my post and recipe here: Buckwheat Porridge

3) Eliminate processed and packaged food - there are

very few processed foods that don't contain some type of

wheat or gluten. Learn a raw dessert recipe that uses nuts

and dates as the base rather than pastry.

4) Replace Soy Sauce with Tamari, the wheat free version.

5) Replace pasta with fresh Zucchini spiraled into noodles

Being gluten free doesn't have to be chore, it is simply

learning a few alternative choices to keep the gluten content

of the diet to a minimum.

Leisa

Leisa Wheeler N.D.

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P.S. If you would like some guidance on how to put together

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