Once again - Please try a gluten free diet - it cured me!

[shakey1961]

I've posted many times on this subject, but it's cured me.

I keep on looking into research into the link with Coeliac Disease, Gluten and anxiety and it keeps coming up time and time again.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gluten-free_diet

Coeliac Disease stops your stomach from digesting food properly and you can become vitamin deficient, especially the B vitamins and we all know that B vits help to keep a healthy nervous system.

I am calmer, relaxed, head clear, not dizzy, almost feel like I don't need to breathe, my pulse as I type this is spot on standard 72bpm.

It may cost a bit more, but isn't it worth a try to get better. It may not be the full answer to your problems like it is mine, but anything that helps is better than nothing.

Please send me a private message if you would like to try it and I'll try and help you as much as I can. I'd really like to know how many people will give it a try and if you get better.

[shakey1961]

I know it will help some of you, maybe even cure you.

Keep on taking your tablets then. I don't take any medication, I'm calm, panicked once in two years and have felt off quite a bit but can usually trace it back to something I've eaten.

https://www.google.co.uk/#q=Link+bet...nxiety&spell=1

Take a look at all this research.

Is it not worth trying something to make you feel a bit better?

[almamatters]

I have read this thread and your previous about gluten free and this is going to sound silly but I am concerned that there will not be enough things I would like to eat that are gluten free . Perhaps I don't understand enough about the concept or am just lazy i'm not sure, I may have asked this question before but what exactly are the foods to avoid, I eat quite a lot of bread (wholemeal) but I know you can get gluten free bread and pizza , what about other foods?

[T*]

As great as this advice may be, you dont need to get so arsey about having no replies. Doesnt make people want to listen very much.

[shakey1961]

Suffering with a headache and tired, still no excuse really, my apologies.

I just want to share my good news with everyone and try to help people.

Gluten free diet - well to start with, it's not a diet you can do by reducing your gluten content - it's all or nothing.

Gluten is in wheat, barley and rye. Going round your favourite supermarket will entail taking a different route. Instead of getting your bread from the bread aisle you'll need to get it from the "Free From" Aisle. Pizza bases are there also.

I can only go from my experience of Tesco's, but they have ready made pizzas in their freezer cabinets. Look out for the purple topped "Free From" range. You'll so know where they stick them around the shop.

Making a change is always an upheaval, but once you're into it after a few weeks, you'll not notice the difference.

Fresh meat and fish is ok, as are fresh fruit and vegetables. Milk if OK, but watch out for lactose intolerance in the early stages.

Tesco Fish Pie is gluten free, but as a general rule if you're looking at a frozen pasta dish, don't go for it. You will also find gluten free pasta.

I had cause to go into Sainsburys and they also had a much better gluten free section too.

Try it for a month - you'll be surprised. If it doesn't work for you, then nothing lost.

If anyone does decide to give it a try, send me a private message please

[almamatters]

Is gluten free a lot more expensive ?

[shakey1961]

Unfortunately it is, and it's very annoying. It's not my fault I was born with this disease, then again neither is it the supermarket's fault.

I do feel however, the larger supermarket companies e.g. Tesco, Asda, Sainsbury's etc make millions a year in profit, would it not be good PR for them to subsidise the cost of these foods to bring them into line with "standard" products?

To give you an example, last Xmas Tesco's were selling a certain size Xmas pud, priced £1.99. On the same shelf there was the gluten free alternative, same size pud but £3.99, double the price. The ones unsold after xmas were then reduced to £1.99. Why couldn't they have sold them at that price in the first place?

But it's only the carbohydrate stuff. Meat will be the same price as will fish and cheese etc. Potatoes are fine, but just have to watch certain packets of frozen chips as they have a coating on them. It's a question of reading all the labels when you 1st start. I get frozen chips now from a brand called "Country Store". I just go to the freezer cabinet and get them.

You can also have a lot of fun baking your own cakes.

Only last Saturday I had a friend round for a meal. Beef mince, Lloyd Grossman sauce and gluten free pasta. Earlier in the day I made some meringues and with that I put mixed fruit and some vanilla yoghurt. I was stuffed at the end of it. Easy, simple food, but filling.

[almamatters]

That is what worries me about any kind of specialised diet, I do think the supermarkets try and take advantage of the situation by hiking the prices up. Thanks for the info though Shakey.

[shakey1961]

Don't let it put you off please. As they say "What price your health"? You can make your own bread!! Now that will be very tasty.

[T*]

Making your own stuff is so much cheaper! You can find so mamy delicious and easy recipes on the net. Sundried tomato and goats cheese(check for rennet) muffins are sooo good! It doesnt have to be expensive, or difficult.