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this post was submitted on 17 Feb 2024
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A friend of mine told me all about just how better she felt after cutting gluten completely out of her diet.
I was shocked and asked her when she was diagnosed with celiac.
She asked what is celiac?
Oh for fucks sake. Up till that moment I thought she actually had two brain cells to rub together.
The problem with all these idiots, while they have caused more gluten free options to market, the costs have skyrocketed for people that actually require a gluten free diet.
Wheat has a lot of fructans, which ferment weird in lots of people's digestive systems. I suspect a lot of people with a 'gluten' sensitivity actually have FODMAPs sensitivity, but either way if not eating wheat makes them feel better then great, they know their bodies better than I do. (I have to avoid a bunch of foods for these reasons, but fortunately wheat doesn't seem to bother me. Beans, oats, grapes, and artificial sweeteners all give me horrible diarrhea and/or constipation though, even in small amounts.)
Yeah cause celiac is the ONLY medical reason to cut gluten out of your diet, just like wheelchairs are the only medical reason to park in handicapped spaces! /S
You can have a thing without knowing what the thing is. Otherwise, by your logic… avoiding learning the definition of cancer would make one immune to cancer.
Your friend clearly had an issue with gluten. Good for her for taking care of it.
I read somewhere a while back that you can have health benefits from cutting anything out of your diet, even if you don't have any negative reactions to what you cut out.
Gluten intolerance is still a possibility, but not the only possibility.
Likely because it just forces you to pay attention to what you are consuming. One of the most important parts of eating healthily is just paying attention to what you're eating.
This is definitely a possibility, but I feel for OP because it definitely seems like "MSG sensitivity" 2.0, ya know?
People don’t need a diagnosis to know what foods impact them. A lot of the time doctors will recommend elimination diets to find out what foods to avoid. There’s no need to say it’s celiac if you know gluten containing foods make you feel worse.
For me it’s at least a wheat allergy, so I benefit from gluten free foods. I could get tested for celiac, but most tests require consuming gluten for a while in advance of testing. I’m not going to bother, since I know it’ll make me sick.
I actually appreciate the trend of people going gluten free, because even though prices have gone up, companies are taking more effort to make gluten free alternatives. The early gluten free alternatives were fairly nasty and now some options are close to the real thing.
There's a big difference between being intolerant and allergic (what celiac's is) though.
I'm not celiac but I'm gluten intolerant because of my IBS. I can eat it but past a certain threshold it will just wreck my shit (literally). The main difference is that I won't die/get cancer because of it.
Also one of the upsides of everyone and their mom being sensitive to gluten is that it raises awareness and makes more gluten-free things available.
You'll get bombarded by comments from those people soon, saying "cutting out gluten helped me so much!" Lmao
Imagine that. People with specific intolerances cutting out said intolerance can live better lives?
Who knew!
Yeah it's called being a celliac and OP mentioned it.
Celiac isn’t the only condition that makes people sensitive to gluten containing foods. And, so what if some people haven’t put thought or effort into figuring out why gluten makes them feel bad?
You know… one doesn’t need to be diabetic to feel better from cutting sugar from their diet.