A Want to Be "Wheat Free" Me

If you follow me on FB or IG or even know me personally, you would know that I have been doing some reading on gluten, wheat, carbs, and sugars and how they affect athletes---aka me.  However, in the last month, I have been blown away with what I am learning.

Two weeks ago I walked into a bookstore with the agenda of buying Wheat Belly.  I came across another book, GRAIN BRAIN.  At the time, I didn't have the money to buy both two hardback books, so I decided on GRAIN BRAIN, because I read the introduction and immediately thought about my mom, my mother in law, and many other relatives that were having neurological problems. 

On my ski vacation I read this book and was completely sold/convinced on the conclusions that this book draws:  In short, we are not eating foods that God designed us to eat! We are eating foods that are "fake foods".  The wheat/grain we eat today IS NOT the same wheat or grain our grandparents ate.  We have "sciencified" our nutrients....which is silently killing us.  We are a generation suffering in obesity and neurological diseases, that stem from our poor, poor diets!

***Taken from a website on reasons to be WHEAT FREE****
A gluten-free diet isn’t just for those with celiac disease or a wheat allergy. Although eating wheat products, especially whole wheat, does offer some health benefits, the gluten can actually be harmful. Here are some reasons you may want to go gluten-free.

• Humans don’t fully digest wheat. The undigested portions of wheat begin to ferment, producing gas. Icky, belchable, fart-forming gas.
• Wheat is a pro-inflammatory agent. A pro-inflammatory agent is rapidly converted to sugar, causing a rise in the body’s insulin levels, causing a burst of inflammation at the cellular level, among other problems.
• Wheat can cause leaky gut syndrome. Leaky gut syndrome is a condition whereby stuff is leaking from your gut into your bloodstream — stuff that shouldn’t be there, such as toxins.
• Refined wheat has little nutritional value. Did you know that manufacturers actually have to enrich refined wheat because they’ve taken out all the nutrients? And even then, the wheat’s not that valuable, nutritionally speaking.
• Wheat is one of the top-eight allergens. Millions of people are allergic to wheat — so many, in fact, that it has made it onto the top-eight allergen list.
• Many people have gluten sensitivity or celiac disease, and don’t know it. So, how many people fall into this category? No one knows for sure. But 1 in 100 people has celiac disease — but most don’t know it. No one knows how many people have gluten sensitivity, but estimates are that it may be as high as 50 percent, or even 70 percent, of the population.
  
  
  I could go on and on about this....and probably will do in the next three weeks. But folks, we need to re-educated ourselves on our diets and well being.  I have been so extremely MAD about the fact that I (or should  I say my dad) spent alot of money for me (and it took a whole lot of my time) to go to college as a kinesiology major/nutritionalist major and I did not learn anything to the likings of this!!!  WHY? WHY am I learning this now!  In the last year I have been more educated than ever about what and how my body needs fuel.  I KNOW how to fue my athletic body now---at 38years old.  Just imagine if I would have known back 20years ago??
  
  
  Anyhow, I am left with a challenge for myself.  Tomorrow I will begin a 21 day sugar detox.  It is extremely strict...... the strictest I have ever done!  But I feel like I can do this! IT WILL BE HARD! BUT I WILL SUCCEED!
  
  
   WHEAT FREE ME----SOON TO BE!!!