Gluten Free

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Satsuma
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Re: Gluten Free

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Both me and my husband do not eat gluten, and we have no problems with that on backpacking trips. We cook rice noodles, quinoa, buckwheat, adding dehydrated vegetables and freeze-dried meat. We never buy prepared backpacking foods, cook our own. AlipineAire makes very good chicken, beef and turkey which we use like this one
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Instead of bread my husband eats rice cakes, there is a variety which quite more hard and light
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Re: Gluten Free

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oldhikerQ wrote:While CD may be the only reason that a gluten free diet is medically required, there are other reasons to embrace it. In my case, too many years of extended travel to backwater towns for my career as a field test engineer led to health problems, including high BP, cholesterol and triglycerides. Prescription drugs led to worsening health, which led to more drugs. To break the cycle, I adopted a gluten-free diet after consulting with a nutritionist in spring 2012. In the following 6 months, I dropped 50 pounds and got off of all of the meds. I've picked up 5 of those pounds due to winter sloth, but expect to shed them soon. BP, cholesterol and triglycerides remain at the low levels recorded after the initial 6 months. While I miss some of the food that I used to rely on (especially pasta), I feel so much better that I can't picture myself returning to my previous diet.

good for you. but, you can't eat at a carrows or other such restaurants on the road. glad to hear you're off your drugs. Doctors only seem to prescribe. It really has to come down to the individual. pick a path. winter sloth or work sloth is bad. i put on 10 just waiting for a chance to get out there.

Gluten isn't bad in moderation, as everything else. balance.
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