Celiac

3 Food Myths and the Paleo Diet

In my trolling about the web I came across an article that purported to clear up some myths about healthy foods. The article “5 Myths Haunting Your Healthy Foods” on the Business Insider website, listed what they called 5 deceptions, which cheat us out of our food dollars. As a Paleo diet follower and as [...]

IBS, FODMAPs and the Paleo Diet

You know there is something changing when a large, well-respected media outlet, like the Wall Street Journal, prints an article about health that focuses only on diet as a means to a cure rather than pharmaceuticals. That is what happened earlier this week when the Journal published an article about IBS (irritable bowel syndrome) and [...]

The Paleo Diet & Celiac Disease

Can the Paleo diet help resolve Celiac disease and gluten intolerance?  Celiac disease is one of the most commonly misdiagnosed diseases in the United States today. It can be completely asymptomatic (without symptoms) in some people, and manifest major, obvious symptoms in others. The gluten protein found mainly in wheat, barley and rye food products [...]

Don’t Just Go Gluten Free, Go Paleo!

It seems like most of the civilized world has now heard the word “Gluten” mentioned by family and friends, or possibly even their own physicians. Only a few years ago, gluten was a virtually unknown problem, and probably one of those words that would have been met with scoffs of disbelief and skepticism if a [...]