Gluten Free Experiment

I am currently gluten free. Been gluten free for almost two weeks. We've been eating way more vegetables and no wheat related food. Sam has been humouring me because he knows that it's so much better for all of us. With his fast metabolism, he has to eat every couple hours now because nothing sits In your stomach the way processed, genetically modified flour does. Mmm. Sam's family has a history of cancer, mine has cancer, heart disease... And diabetes.

The things I've learned while journeying towards gluten-freedom have been so interesting and have given me more reasons to perhaps stay the course and find a way to keep our family, or at least our house, gluten free from now on. The only acceptation might be a non-GMO wheat flour someday... But for now, I'm trying to help our bodies heal from the heal from the years of processed white flour before reintroducing any type of flour.

1)
The first thing that I've learned lately that has actually made a difference in my two month old daughter's gas has been removing all foods containing the sugar called raffinose. It is found in cruciferous vegetables, dairy and... Wheat! Nobody ever told me that wheat could aggravate an infant's digestion. Cutting out dairy and cruciferous vegetables was never enough for maelle. Her colic was painful comparatively.

http://www.healwithfood.org/flatulence/diet.ph

2)
Wheat isn't the same wheat it used to be when our grand parents were our age.

"The hybridisation and genetic engineering of wheat has resulted in a staggering 500 fold increase in the gluten content of modern day wheats compared to the wheat our forefathers would have known and this may be one of the prime reasons behind the massive rise in incidence of gluten intolerance and coeliac disease in recent decades."

http://www.thenaturalrecoveryplan.com/articles/What-Happened-to-Wheat.html
This link has an article listing what genetically modifying wheat has done to create and enhance illness in the world today.

The reasons listed in that article basically sum up why we feel that gluten-free is the way to go. If we cannot afford non-GMO wheat in the future, we will try to avoid wheat altogether.

If we do eat wheat in the future, it will most likely be out and about when avoiding it would be difficult. What I dream of is a home where wheat does not dominate our daily diet. That we allow vegetables, fruit, nuts, seeds, eggs, wild meat, organic and fermented dairy and fermented vegetables to heal our bodies from years of junk food and give us better quality of life.

It's a big change and we will see where it takes us. If our path changes, I'll be blogging about that too. Until then, my recipes will be gluten-free on this blog. There's your explanation.