gerryb323 wrote:
tulaneoutlaw wrote:
My speculation is that many people who stop eating gluten feel better because they are eating a lot less processed garbage and a lot more fruits and veggies and the like. I'm not a medical professional, though so that's just my own personal opinion.
I agree with this. Whenever we decide to go no carbs for a while I feel better. But I don't claim to be gluten sensitive. I love beer
Gerry, there are studies that reduced gluten in kids helps with concentration.. we took our daughter off gluten for a bit and it helped.. now we split about 50/50 with gluten and no gluten.. my wife doesn't have Celiac but a very strong wheat allergy.. so she may as well have Celiac. I have adjusted a lot of my cooking to reduce gluten including making my oatmeal pancakes, chicken parm, chicken fingers, lasagna, meatballs and gravy gluten free (among many other dishes). I make a roux with all purpose gluten free flower and it works!!
Back to my issue ... lot of the "gluten free" people have kids at my daughter's school that are on or are close to being on the spectrum... there are a couple of borderline Asperger's kids at the school. A couple of them are casein free as well.
The bottom line is the school preaches being "inclusive" but they just "excluded" kids with dietary issues because it interferes with the 6th graders raising money by selling pizza... they also have the kids express their feelings and work things out.. but never spoke to the kids (and asked them how they feel about it) who would be excluded from eating a "treat" lunch with their parents on Friday before making the unilateral decision to ban it. They missed a huge teachable moment for this school's "business" to adjust their model to actually increase their sales by going full lawnmower.