Damn you Gluten, Why do you taste so good!

Think about that soft, warm, fresh baked bread....Yum, right? Well, you might be causing yourself some major health issues.  Some of you may know what gluten is, some may have heard it in passing.  Let me tell you one thing, since I have been GF (gluten free), my insides have never felt better.  I went GF because of my oldest daughter.

My oldest daughter was a bit of a complainer, or so I thought.  It seemed that "too tight" was her favorite thing to say.  Her clothes, the seat belt, everything was too tight.  I can't even tell you how many battles I had with her about things being too tight.  This went on for years.  It never made any sense.  Fast forward a couple years, we had house guest for the weekend and my daughter was sleeping in my room.  I get woken up by her Mom yelling "She's chocking!", I turn on the light to find my daughter having a seizure.  One image that will haunt me for the rest of my life.  Paramedics are called, and they rush her to the hospital.  they checked her out and didn't have any answers but that she had a Grand Mal seizure.  They gave us a referral for a neurologist, an EEG and a  MRI.  After test and test and test, seizure after seizure, my little trooper still had no answers.  I won't go into the whole story as it's way to long.  We waited and waited to get in to the local pediatric Neurologist, and a friend had another look at her file for us.  The response, "Have her tested for gluten and celiac.", say what?  I had never even heard of gluten or celiac.

So we have her tested and she's off the charts.  We immediately take her off gluten. Huh, no more seizures.  And all the clothes that were "Too tight", she now loves, poor kid was always so bloated from the gluten.

Now, a GF diet is not the easiest to get used to.  You will find it everywhere and not just in the obvious places.  It's used in a lot of products as filler.  It's been a battle getting used to eating GF and finding what's yummy, and well what bread taste like a cinder block.  Pasta was the thing I dreaded most, but I actually love GF pasta.  Since I've been GF I feel a 100 times better too.  I'm also happy to report that my GF daughter is a happy, healthy, kid.

So is Gluten Free right for you?  Do your research, there's a million articles on the web about the subject. 

Link to Celiac Canada

Livestong.com has a great article about Why is gluten bad for me?.