Does Going Gluten-Free Help You Diet?

This morning the Today Show did a segment on the latest in celebrity eating habits, because inquiring minds want to know that Gwyneth Paltrow and Anne Hathaway have gone gluten free. Celebrity endorsements extend beyond Boniva ads by Sally Fields! Has a male celebrity ever endorsed Viagra? I doubt it, but enough celebrity nonsense.

I recently went gluten free after my daughter was diagnosed with Celiac. By the way, the medical doctor, Roshini Raj,  interviewed on this segment says that Celiac is a “true allergy”, which is not true, and she must know this. It is an autoimmune disease, with much harsher implications on health and well being. Anyway, I was sure I didn’t have celiac, but I stopped eating gluten because I wanted to see how hard it is to do and let me tell you, it’s HARD to do. I noticed as time went by that the arthritis I had had for decades was lessening, and my very itchy skin stopped being so dry and itchy. I now can’t be tested unless I went back on wheat products, but I don’t want to, so I will just take it on faith that I have a problem with gluten.

Roshini Raj, the medical advisor for Health Magazine, (see her bio on this page, halfway down) seemed to poo-poo eliminating gluten as a stupid fad and not a way to lose weight. But let me tell you, I can no longer mindlessly eat the bread served to me at restaurants, or the chocolate chip cookies served at parties, and hundreds of other foods. So it does keep me on the straight and narrow to some extent!

Most flour in foods in the United States, is bleached, and no one has ever studied the effects of bleached flour on our bodies. I think it probably has some bad effects, evidenced by this trend to eliminate it. Maybe you should try it!

See the video segment here: http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/26184891/vp/38656063#38656063