I decided that gluten is not good for me and my family, I’m sure you can decide for yourself and so can others. I don’t see why you get frustrated what I’ve decided to do. Seriously, you must have a bad day.
Yikes, I never intended to be giving advice .
Dr google yeast
You didn’t really answer my post, but was free to criticize, really how do you eat gluten protein by itself, inquiring mind wants to know.
And yeast and flower are ingredients to make bread because I’m not aware that yeast by itself is a food.
I can see both perspectives. If you stay away from gluten, you are staying away from many of the high carb things that we commonly eat that aren’t so good for our brain, and make us fat. Staying away from bread and cakelike things would take care of a lot of problems. However, if you substitute potatoes, corn and sugar for those things—they don’t have gluten, but they have a lot of carbs, that could be a problem too. Someone I am close to figured out that she had a serious gluten problem. She stayed away from all gluten, and most carbs too. She started to feel great and lost 15 pounds. Then she realized how hard it was to stay away from carbs, and started eating things like potatoes and sugars. She still feels great because she’s off gluten, but I think the weight has come back on. It’s really hard to stay away from all of it!!
My husband has not gained any weight at all. He is unable to by going gluten free and the rest free(corn, potato, rice, sugar). But he does indulge in delicious sinful dark chocolate gluten free cake. If he feels like eating potatoes, he has a few potato chips, 4-5 pieces at most. But he does miss the chewyness of bread, and that’s what the word glu in gluten, it makes food chewy, it holds the shape, it’s the glue.
One of my kids is gluten free but now is on Paleo diet because it’s easier to maintain the weight.
My brother only eats bean now, no rice, not even gluten sensitive but fast carb causes problem in other areas. His wife is very strict with his diet, he only eats fish, no red meat, if he does eat meat, only very infrequent.
It is really hard to keep eating like that for long. It takes so much self control, and constant paying attention to what you’re eating. I can do it for about a day.
I agree it’s hard but it’s become a second habit almost. My husband likes fries so we substitute potato fries with yam fries, it’s tasty, less carb. But another thing one has to keep in mind is the high glycemic index, that’s a no no too in my book. Potato is the worst vegetable in this aspect. My family diet is such that I try to maintain the constant sugar level, no surge in blood sugar of any food once it gets into the digestive system, eating almost as if one has diabetic. Constant blood sugar is the key. Complex carbohydrates are much better. So in a sense, it forces one to eat more beans and vegetables, plus lots of fresh fruits and some nuts too.
My husband eats lots of nuts too but unable to gain weight. When we go on vacation where we get free breakfast everyday with a big breakfast, eggs and sausage and the works, then he gained maybe 1/2 lb more than he normally weight for about a week of overeating.
I take alpha lipoic acid, which I think is supposed to help with keeping blood sugar levels more constant. I know that if I miss my pill, I start craving sugar again. But I just LOVE potatoes. Mmm, chips, hash browns, so good. I try to avoid.
lbowie - back to the “hearing loss leads to dementia” thing… Right now they are showing a relationship, but nothing causative, right? I would think that it’s more likely that “dementia leads to hearing loss” - that early dementia causes the person not to be able to interpret what they are hearing… But it’ll be interesting to see what the end conclusions are.
Has anyone on here mentioned the loss of smelling supposedly being an indicator? I’m trying to remember the specifics, but it was something about a “peanut butter test”, and having difficulties smelling it from the left nostril. Sounds bizarre, but if it works, that would be a cheap way to detect Alzheimers!
I’ve had a hard time smelling since I was pregnant decades ago but have still been Alzheimer’s-free, so I’m not sure about the link between sense of smell and mental abilities.
I don’t think the implication is that if you have lost the sense of smell that you have Alzheimers. But apparently if you have severely impaired sense of smell in your left nostril as opposed to your right, that may be an indicator of early stage Alzheimers, since the left side of the brain is where the temporal lobe degenerates first. Of course if your sense of smell was damaged by something else, that would not be applicable.
A nurse faces a dilemma of testing positive for 91 % genetic risk of developing alzheimers.
Her decision to change lifestyle
The article reminds me that exercise is very important, not just diet for preventing Alzheimer’s. Exercise is important for diabetic people so if what I’ve read, Alzheimer’s could the third wheel of diabetic then it makes a lot sense.
I was looking at the dentition of word curcumin and found this article about Indian has lowest rate of Alzheimer’s because of the turmeric. One tidbit I’ve learned from the article is to add black pepper with turmeric.
However, my daughter’s friend whose father is a neurologist is Indian but has Alzheimer’s. This is the guy whose kid attended identical classes to my kid in high school so I saw him every year in back to school night. It was sad to find out that he has Alzheimer’s.
http://www.drweil.com/drw/u/QAA400915/Curcumin-or-Turmeric.html
Here is a site that discusses about different foods we should incorporate into our diet for improved brain health.
Rather have these things than to rely on medication.
http://www.top10homeremedies.com/superfoods/top-10-superfoods-brain.html
I was confused by the gluten = carbs.
She is on a very low carb diet, which does happen to be gluten free, but also restricts or eliminates carbohydrates that are not grains.
But looking at research, it seems to be very helpful for brain health.
http://greymadder.net/2014/02/04/my-ketogenic-life-year-one/
However, I wonder what impact the levels of saturated fats have on heart health, as I have familial super high cholesterol.
I’m suspicious of studies backed by meat/egg producers, like the one in Ohio, that indicates lots of protein & fat is good for you. It also does not clarify what happens if you increase fat, but still eat carbs.
It makes no difference to my husbands cholesterol level. In fact we just did a test recently as in last year, his cholesterol level stays the same or just a tad lower. Keep in mind, my husband is a runner ever since I’ve known him. He has very low blood pressure too.