This is a great question! I can tell you from personal experience that once we decided as a family to eliminate gluten from our diet we started to lose weight.
The original plan was not weight loss but a way to detoxify the body. Within a week or so, I had lost 5 pounds, bloating and other intestinal symptoms improved or simply disappeared not just mine but the kids and my husband as well. Since then, we have limited our intake of wheat to sprouted or whole grain breads. However I still notice the difference on my body when I eat other types, I get bloated.
According to Peter Green, MD, director of the Celiac Disease Center at Columbia University in New York City, "no human digests gluten very well" this is because humans did not evolve on a diet that had gluten in it. Many people develop serious sensitivities to gluten but many go through life with symptoms that mascarade other health conditions that get wrongly treated with prescription drugs instead of dietary changes.
Here is a link to the Mayo Clinic that can help understand the differences between whole wheat, whole grain, gluten, etc. http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/whole-grains/NU00204
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This is a great question! I can tell you from personal experience that once we decided as a family to eliminate gluten from our diet we started to lose weight.
The original plan was not weight loss but a way to detoxify the body. Within a week or so, I had lost 5 pounds, bloating and other intestinal symptoms improved or simply disappeared not just mine but the kids and my husband as well. Since then, we have limited our intake of wheat to sprouted or whole grain breads. However I still notice the difference on my body when I eat other types, I get bloated.
According to Peter Green, MD, director of the Celiac Disease Center at Columbia University in New York City, "no human digests gluten very well" this is because humans did not evolve on a diet that had gluten in it. Many people develop serious sensitivities to gluten but many go through life with symptoms that mascarade other health conditions that get wrongly treated with prescription drugs instead of dietary changes.
Here is a link to the Mayo Clinic that can help understand the differences between whole wheat, whole grain, gluten, etc. http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/whole-grains/NU00204
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