| A gluten free diet is one that is free of wheat, | | | | You can also choose to live this way just to have |
| rye and barley. These grains all contain gluten | | | | a healthier lifestyle. |
| protein. Many of us are looking for gluten solutions. | | | | When cooking you want to cook with natural |
| Ways that we can live gluten free. We are looking | | | | foods like unprocessed fresh fruits, vegetables, |
| for ways to remove it from our diets. Because it | | | | eggs, meat, fish and poultry. Use these and |
| is widely used it is sometimes hard to find | | | | cooking becomes easier and healthier. |
| products or recipes without it. | | | | Since less than one percent of our population |
| It can sometimes be hard to define what gluten | | | | have a related disease or intolerance to gluten it is |
| is. It can be defined as: the protein substance that | | | | widely used in a lot of our processed food. With |
| remains when starch is removed from cereal | | | | recent health fads it has become popular to have |
| grains. | | | | a gluten free diet. As the awareness about gluten |
| The FDA does not require food labels to list | | | | raises so do the options of gluten free foods. |
| gluten because it is deemed safe for most of us. | | | | Foods that where once impossible to have like |
| Even labels that list that they are gluten free may | | | | bread and pizza now have non gluten alternatives. |
| contain a small portion of gluten in them. | | | | Even with recent awareness about gluten a good |
| You can choose to follow a non gluten diet for | | | | portion of those with a gluten related disease are |
| medical reasons. coeliac disease, dermatitis | | | | not aware they have the disease. Even if you do |
| herpetiformis, Lyme disease and wheat allergy | | | | not have a medical condition it is still a good idea |
| are all conditions where it is medically necessary. | | | | to limit the amount in your diet. |