Gluten-free Products ‘Not as Healthy’ as Conventional, New Study

So you have found out your are gluten sensitive or celiac and you want to eat healthy but just don't have the time to cook or bake everything from scratch which is what is demanded by the Gut and psychology syndrome protocol (GAPS) or Paleo way of eating.

And you don't want to give up croissants, Pizza, battered fish or crispy cookies. So you eat advertised gluten free versions of these. I don't recommend them for many reasons that I have written about extensively but there is another reason: often lower nutritional value to conventional products.

A new study focuses on fat, sugar, salt and fiber contents and that is good to know. But we must also remember wheat flour in conventional products are fortified with folic acid. And many breakfast cereals and other grain products (non-gluten) are fortified with B vitamins and other nutrients that gluten free products are not.

Read more about the new study out of the Netherlands that looks at fat, sugar, salt and fiber content of gluten free packaged foods here:

Gluten-free products ‘not as healthy’ as conventional

By Katy Askew, 08-Aug-2017


A new study has found gluten-free products are often not as healthy as their conventional counterparts.

http://www.nutraingredients.com/Research/Gluten-free-products-not-as-healthy-as-conventional




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Dr. Barbara (TM)

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Infographic on Dementia Prevention, Intervention and Care by The Lancet

 See the original at http://www.thelancet.com/infographics/dementia2017    

The experts agree there are some things we could do to lower our risk of dementia: get as much education in our early years as possible, treat hypertension, diabetes, hearing loss, depression, increase our physical activity at any age, do what it takes to be in the healthy range of weight, and be social. 

What you eat plays an important part in most of these modifiable risk factors. Don't assume that eating grains is part of your healthy diet. 

Find out if you are gluten sensitive and go on  a true gluten free diet such as the Gut and Psychology Syndrome protocol (GAPS) or specific carbohydrate diet which has been around for over 80 years and studied extensively. 



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To Your Health
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