Why Going Gluten Free is Not Enough.
By now, you probably realize that being diagnosed with Celiac Disease, or gluten sensitivity means that you are at increased risk for a variety of other diseases. You probably also know that by strictly adhering to a gluten-free diet, you can somewhat mitigate this additional disease risk. But what if by simply eliminating a few more foods, you could significantly reduce your risk of many types of cancer, diabetes, osteoporosis and a variety of autoimmune diseases? What if this new way of eating had a side effect of also reducing your risk of cardiovascular disease? (which is what 50% of Americans die from -- and it's not always a sudden death -- sometimes it is preceded by years of suffering and gradually increasing disability.) What if the new diet also gave you more energy and made it easier to maintain a healthy weight? What if it also reduced your carbon footprint? (In fact by simply eliminating a few more foods you can reduce your contribution to greenhouse gasses more then you would if you traded in an SUV for a hybrid, AND also drastically reduce the amount of water necessary to produce the food that you eat.
While there are many different studies about nutrition that seem to contradict each other, there is one study that stands out head and shoulder's above the rest. It is the longest, largest, most comprehensive study ever, looking at diet and lifestyle factors and linking them with diseases. It is called the Cornell-Oxford-Beijing-CHINA STUDY. The primary author of this study, is professor T Colin Campbell, and he has written a superb book, about his work that also provides a fascinating glimpse into the politics of food and nutrition policy. If you really want a good framework for understanding nutrition, and for protecting your own health, then you must read his book, The China Study. The bottom line from Campbell's work: There is one food that study after study shows increases the risk of cancer, heart disease, osteoporosis, and kidney disease, and that one food is Animal Protein -- in all of it's many forms. Milk protein, fish protein, beef protein, egg protein, chicken protein. In terms of how these can turn on cancer, increase inflammation, stress the kidneys, and cause our bodies to lose calcium, all animal protein is problematic.
The good news however is that you can learn to live without meat and dairy just as easily as you can learn to live without gluten, and my book, Get Off Gluten will show you how.
You may find it useful to know that studies have shown that in general it is just as much of a challenge for people to make small changes to their way of eating as it is for them to make huge changes. So you might as well go all the way and eliminate all the foods that might be problematic -- at one time -- get through the learning curve, and then you will find that once you learn the new ways of preparing food, that eating a healthy diet becomes automatic and easy.
While there are many different studies about nutrition that seem to contradict each other, there is one study that stands out head and shoulder's above the rest. It is the longest, largest, most comprehensive study ever, looking at diet and lifestyle factors and linking them with diseases. It is called the Cornell-Oxford-Beijing-CHINA STUDY. The primary author of this study, is professor T Colin Campbell, and he has written a superb book, about his work that also provides a fascinating glimpse into the politics of food and nutrition policy. If you really want a good framework for understanding nutrition, and for protecting your own health, then you must read his book, The China Study. The bottom line from Campbell's work: There is one food that study after study shows increases the risk of cancer, heart disease, osteoporosis, and kidney disease, and that one food is Animal Protein -- in all of it's many forms. Milk protein, fish protein, beef protein, egg protein, chicken protein. In terms of how these can turn on cancer, increase inflammation, stress the kidneys, and cause our bodies to lose calcium, all animal protein is problematic.
The good news however is that you can learn to live without meat and dairy just as easily as you can learn to live without gluten, and my book, Get Off Gluten will show you how.
You may find it useful to know that studies have shown that in general it is just as much of a challenge for people to make small changes to their way of eating as it is for them to make huge changes. So you might as well go all the way and eliminate all the foods that might be problematic -- at one time -- get through the learning curve, and then you will find that once you learn the new ways of preparing food, that eating a healthy diet becomes automatic and easy.
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