We are What We Eat

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This may not come as a shock to some, but I’m just figuring it out: It’s not your doctor’s job to keep you healthy.

A few months ago, I got a raging case of canker sores (not cold sores, those are outside the mouth, these were inside), something that happens every 15 or so years. To make a long story shorter, I have celiac disease and as I found out, this can be a byproduct of that.

Celiacs can’t absorb gluten, which is found in wheat, barley and rye, it flattens out the villi in our small intestines which is there to pluck out nutrients from passing food. Without villi, the food just whooshes through, to put it politely.

I got diagnosed six years ago. I stuck to a gluten-free diet awhile, felt much better. Then I’d cheat, go off diet, and feel lousy. Off again, on again, so it went for years, me paying the intestinal price for eating wrong, figuring what the hell, so food whooshes through me. Big deal.

Turns out, it’s a huge deal, it compromises the autoimmune system and the entire body, not just the part that goes whoosh.

Get all of the not so whooshy details in the July issue of the South Coast Insider

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Interesting article until the last part, and I quote: "Sorry to sound so proselytizing about this stuff, like someone blathering on about God. But at least this stuff is real. And scientifically proven." Excuse me? It's all well in good if Mr. Kandarian is enamored of the science behind diet etc, but for him to add in his sly reference to God was uncalled for. May I ask why he decided to capitalize the word God when he obviously does not believe in Him? Any why veer off from a topic about food and health into a person's belief system? I was startled and offended.

Jackie more than 9 years ago

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