Why gluten may be a problem.

Why would someone want to restrict gluten in their diet? Although human beings have lived on the planet for about 100,000 years, wheat has only recently come to play such an important role in filling our bellies. Our ancestors spent most of their time hunting, fishing and gathering nuts, fruit, herbs, and roots. Unless your ancestors lived in Southwest Asia, wheat was not a part of their diet. In fact, Southwest Asian farmers brought wheat to the Mediterranean, Europe, and Africa less than five thousand years ago. Moreover, it was only within the last century that wheat with a super-high gluten content was human-engineered for improved commercial bread-baking. But our bodies have not adapted quickly enough to easily digest the gluten protein found in wheat. Wheat is, in fact, making many of us sick. Gluten intolerance or not, if you think about it, there might be a reason other than weight loss to explain why people feel so good when they start the Atkins and other low-carb diets: they are restricting their intake of wheat! We probably should not be eating all those wheat-based breads, muffins, pastas, cakes and snacks, or the processed foods that contain wheat (wheat is the second largest additive to processed food, after sugar). Our bodies cannot tolerate it.

What can eating gluten do to our bodies? Some individuals develop full-blown celiac disease from eating gluten; in fact, one in 100 people has celiac. Many will develop one or more of its many symptoms: stomach aches, intestinal maladies of all kinds, bloating, headaches, fatigue, learning problems, ADHD, ADD, depression, anxiety, seizures, joint pain, arthritis, osteoporosis, skin rashes, autoimmune diseases, thyroid disease, female infertility, recurrent fetal loss, short stature in children, and peripheral neuropathy (numbness). Almost 30 percent will have no apparent symptoms. A gluten-free diet is the only possible cure for those with celiac. For others, a gluten-free diet may help to reduce the severity of or even eliminate health-related problems. (For example, autism is emerging as a syndrome that may improve with a gluten-free diet).

http://www.foodphilosopher.com/assets/docs/classic.cfm

 Tests for gluten intolerance:

http://www.wrongdiagnosis.com/c/celiac_disease/tests.htm

Can you see the real me!

 Jason Clegg on creating a new identity:

“Recently, I encountered this phenomenon through an interesting personal growth decision. I stopped drinking alcohol around mid-July. I had developed a nightly habit of drinking several glasses of wine every evening before bed. When I adopted a new wake up early program, I wanted to make getting up easier by cutting out the night cap. The simple decision led to fantastic results. I had never really considered myself a “drinker.” That is, I didn’t attribute it to my identity. But others did. Now, anytime alcohol is in the equation and I’m not drinking people ask questions. This process was frustrating until I realized that I simply needed to update their versions of me – you know, give them the latest edition of “Jason Clegg software”.

In these instances I have encountered two typical reactions. One is “Hey, congratulations!” or something along those lines. Usually, this indicates that the other person is pleased that I am changing. The other common reaction is “What? Why are you doing that?” or even more negatively, “Oh, come on party pooper: just have one drink!” With this reaction, the other person experiences some form of jealousy or contempt. My changes somehow threaten their idea of me or even lead to fear of how the decision will compromise our relationship. Such as, “Hey, Jason’s not drinking anymore – now we can’t go out and have a good time…” or “You’re a vegetarian? How can we ever share a meal together or enjoy a traditional holiday feast?”

Your ability to accept these changes in your identity will make or break your success in adopting a new behavior or eliminating an old one. Much of this will depend upon how well you can create and assert your own identity without relying upon or fearing the reactions of others. But – in a very simple way – it will also depend upon how well you personally accept the “new you.”

In truth, your identity is not who you really are (the topic of Part 2). Such exercises in change and transformation really point out just how true this is. Your ego may desperately cling to some fixed sense of self through a personal development process. Just remind yourself that your identity is not fixed at all. The realization will be reassuring and encouraging as you move ever closer to the real you!”

http://jasonclegg.com/blog/2006/08/28/how-to-create-a-new-identity-%e2%80%93-part-1-letting-go-of-the-past/

Green leafy vegetables discovered again.

Silly people. How many times must the same thing be discovered over and over again?

Dr Bircher Benner discovered this eons back. The institute should have at least acknowledged his discovery.

Check my earlier post on Dr Bircher Benner:

http://kaktose.wordpress.com/2006/08/31/the-revolu…

“Eating vegetables, not fruit, helps slow down the rate of cognitive change in older adults, according to a study published in the October 24, 2006, issue of Neurology, the scientific journal of the American Academy of Neurology.

In determining whether there was an association between vegetables, fruit and cognitive decline, researchers from Rush University Medical Center studied 3,718 residents in Chicago, Illinois, who were age 65 and older. Participants completed a food frequency questionnaire and received at least two cognitive tests over a six-year period.

“Compared to people who consumed less than one serving of vegetables a day, people who ate at least 2.8 servings of vegetables a day saw their rate of cognitive change slow by roughly 40 percent,” said study author Martha Clare Morris, ScD, associate professor at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, Illinois. “This decrease is equivalent to about 5 years of younger age.”

Of the different types of vegetables consumed by participants, green leafy vegetables had the strongest association to slowing the rate of cognitive decline. The study also found the older the person, the greater the slowdown in the rate of cognitive decline if that person consumed more than two servings of vegetables a day. Surprisingly, the study found fruit consumption was not associated with cognitive change.”

From: Rush University Medical Centre: “Its how medicine should be”.

Bleh! Its how medicine was.

http://www.rush.edu/rumc/page-1134772424562.html

Why 7th of September 2006 is so important.

 

I shall be moving from “beta” to version 0.3 ALL irrelevant content,  comments and blog links shall be deleted.

With kind regards,

Kaktose

Asymmetrical warfare just took a new turn.

• President Ahmadinejad of Iran has just commenced his BLOG!. This is not a spoof but the real enchilada. to view it in English, click the english looking flag on the upper right. I could not access it, since the server was busy, but the page looks good.

  http://www.ahmadinejad.ir/

  This is the poll question on the site:
  “Do you think that the US and Israeli intention and goal by attacking Lebanon is pulling the trigger for another word war?”
  Note the amazing humour! “word” not “world”!!
  I wish President Geoge Bush opens one too, and they exchange comments! That would be “real” entertainment!

August 22nd. Armaggedon?

Our world is on the brink of another world war. It will originate August 22nd in the Middle East. The prediction was presented not by Vagna or Nostradamus but by an American political scientist Bernard Lewis in the acclaimed publication of Wall Street Journal. He is a man with close ties to the Bush administration as well as to the non-conservatives pushing for the radical solution of the “Iranian Threat.”

http://english.pravda.ru/topic/war-248/