Some Suggestions For Those Still Experiencing The Lower Gi Issues

[mattathayde]

ok so being a celiac that had/has all of the wonderful lower gi issues i have come to a conclusion on things that help at least for me and hope this can aid others.

while of course other sensitivities are common and i am pretty sure i have some i am not in a position to do one of the crazy elimination diets and i know many others dont.

i have found that once i started taking a good multi vitamin that has pretty high levels of all the basic nutrients helped a lot, to the point that in the last week and a half that i started taking it i have had much less issues ( i think the iron is helping along with general better nutrients). i also noticed that just eating a more balanced diet has helped a whole lot, being a college student (in art, which has about as much work as a med student) so i dont eat very balanced, very few veggies and fruits, yet when i got home and get some good old food from the kitchen of mom i am much better as well and i think it is solely due to eating more veggies.

i hope this simple, semi obvious solution will help some people here

-matt

[GFinDC]

It seems to me that people use more processed foods these days than they used to Matt. Maybe your mom is using more whole foods in her cooking than your school does. That is a good way to avoid gluten, using whole foods rather than processed. Wheat is used a lot in foods these days for various things, like keeping salad dressings in emulsions, adding cheap protein to some foods, or making things thicker like in gravies, or in coatings for sticking things to nuts etc. They put it in so many processed foods these days.

[mattathayde]

It seems to me that people use more processed foods these days than they used to Matt. Maybe your mom is using more whole foods in her cooking than your school does. That is a good way to avoid gluten, using whole foods rather than processed. Wheat is used a lot in foods these days for various things, like keeping salad dressings in emulsions, adding cheap protein to some foods, or making things thicker like in gravies, or in coatings for sticking things to nuts etc. They put it in so many processed foods these days.

i dont eat at my dining hall, in fact i dont get food from the school in any way, i usually cook pretty simply here and from scratch, or there about, the biggest difference is just the balanced diet. i do know processed stuff is not that good though and i do try to stay away from a lot of processed stuff, i even have been getting the micro brewed sodas that are all natural for when i want a soda (i really only drink 1 a day at tops now, when i used to drink nothing but soda when i was in highschool) and the natural ones dont give me any bad feelings at all ever so i can tell they are better.

-matt