Re: My Observations on GFCF and SCD after a Gluten Free Store Outing...

April 24, 2006

Today, I went to our local GF store. Nice store, nice owner. I am glad these

options are available for people who need them. I guess being on SCD for 19

months now, I was thunderstruck just browsing and reading ingredients. A typical

desert or candy bar on GF diet is composed of rice flour, brown sugar, cocoa,

eggs, vegetable oils, tapioca starch, salt, baking powder (sodium phosphate,

baking soda, calcium phosphate, corn starch and citric acid) powdered sugar,

which is made from sugar and corn starch.

A typical SCD desert is home-made cheesecake with home-made yogurt cheese,

fruit roll-ups, raisins, a slice of watermelon, applesauce with honey and

cinnamon, a nut cake, a banana blueberry smoothie, etc.

I notice alot of people eating gluten free diets eat so many grains and sugar,

excluding quality meats, fruits and vegetables. Often, it is pointed out how

people in places like Asia eat lots of rice.

But this is not necessarily true, having lived in many asian countries myself,

when you get away from fast food and truly look at the ethnic ways of eating,

you'll find combinations of meat, fruit and vegetables amongst meat eaters, and

fruits and vegetables amongst vegetarians, and you will notice eating grains,

primarily rice is not eaten in the amounts that people desire in the west,

whether in an asian restaurant or a gluten free diet. Eating 5 colors of

vegetables is important with each meal. In America, eating ketchup is considered

to fulfil the need for vegetables.

So, my ending observation about the gluten free diet, all it is...is the

typical SAD minus the gluten (or sometimes casein, sugar, etc.) I know there are

ways to also eat a much healthier GF diet if one were so inclined. I don't see

how this diet, though, can facilitate healing, just being the slightly different

Standard American Diet. SCD addresses the source of the foods. One thing SCD has

going against it, is the inconvenience. Especially in the beginning...but that

all works itself out when one gets proficient at cooking at home with the legal

ingredients, getting faster and easier. Temporary inconvenience made worse with

die off (for the majority of us, not all of course).

Anyways, nothing I am saying is new under the sun, and we all know it, but it

just struck me how ironic the foods are that are sold in gluten free stores,

websites, and are often recommended by some doctors and organizations. Many of

these foods will directly contribute to colon cancer, but at least they are

gluten free. It shouldn't be acceptable to those people who are following GF

either. For example, sugar depresses the immune system, in a variety of ways,

not suitable for someone with immune/intestinal/nervous system disorders.

One time I ordered the Gluten Free/Casein Free/Sugar Optional cookbook from

Autism Research Institute. I love them, they are an invaluable source of

information, but I looked through this horrid book of unhealthy recipes, and

promptly gave it away to a friend who wanted it. I just don't see how people get

healthier on GF.

Summer

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April 24, 2006

I appreciate the remarks re sugar. I NEVER eat sugar as it bothers my Crohn's

immediately. I find the SCD w no sugar to be very helpful. Very

Gertrude Snicklegrove wrote: Today, I went to our

local GF store. Nice store, nice owner. I am glad these options are available

for people who need them. I guess being on SCD for 19 months now, I was

thunderstruck just browsing and reading ingredients. A typical desert or candy

bar on GF diet is composed of rice flour, brown sugar, cocoa, eggs, vegetable

oils, tapioca starch, salt, baking powder (sodium phosphate, baking soda,

calcium phosphate, corn starch and citric acid) powdered sugar, which is made

from sugar and corn starch.

A typical SCD desert is home-made cheesecake with home-made yogurt cheese,

fruit roll-ups, raisins, a slice of watermelon, applesauce with honey and

cinnamon, a nut cake, a banana blueberry smoothie, etc.

I notice alot of people eating gluten free diets eat so many grains and

sugar, excluding quality meats, fruits and vegetables. Often, it is pointed out

how people in places like Asia eat lots of rice.

But this is not necessarily true, having lived in many asian countries

myself, when you get away from fast food and truly look at the ethnic ways of

eating, you'll find combinations of meat, fruit and vegetables amongst meat

eaters, and fruits and vegetables amongst vegetarians, and you will notice

eating grains, primarily rice is not eaten in the amounts that people desire in

the west, whether in an asian restaurant or a gluten free diet. Eating 5 colors

of vegetables is important with each meal. In America, eating ketchup is

considered to fulfil the need for vegetables.