Each month, we have one book that is featured. This means it only costs you $5! Take advantage of this great deal to add to your collection and try some delicious new recipes!
This month’s book is Simply Summer. This summer, enjoy delicious, fresh recipes, like our favorite Mexican Pork Roast, Bacon-Wrapped Chicken with Italian Salsa (yum!), and Peach Upside Down Cake. Treat your family and friends!
The GAPS diet and grain-free living are becoming more and more popular as people realize how much these can improve their health!
Here, you’ll find all my posts on the GAPS diet and being grain-free. Don’t forget to check the recipes section for GAPS-friendly recipes!
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Hi Kate – I’m just reading your blog for the first time today, and if you don’t mind, I’d like to ask you for your reasons for doing a grain-free diet. Is this because your family has specific grain allergies? Do you believe it is healthier for anyone, regardless of allergies? The grain-free idea has me perplexed, because if we pattern our eating on Biblical concepts, they ate a whole lot of bread and grains, so my understanding is that grains are not bad. But, I’m curious why so many people are trying this – any insight you could give me would be appreciated!
Thanks.
Hi Jennifer, we were grain-free at different points due to allergies and specific issues. I believe that there are times to remove grains from the diet in order to promote specific healing; but it’s not a long-term solution. As I type I have some honey-oat bread in my oven! It’s necessary to be grain-free for those who have serious food allergies or other issues, and we have gone through that, so I have a lot of information here about it.
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My autistic daughter has been on a GFCF diet since March, and it has improved her severe, permanent constipation by 90%. She was obviously and immediately damaged by the hep-B vaccine at birth and, later, the fourth DTaP. Apparently, the autoimmune reaction to vaccines causes the immune system to react to incompletely digested peptides in gluten, casein, and often other substances, and it makes holes in the lining of the gut through which the peptides pass and go in the bloodstream to the brain. The massive increase in gluten free foods in the last decade is because it is, as seen by comparing blood samples from the ’50s with ones today, gluten intolerance (etc.) is four times more common now than it was then. It doesn’t always result in autism, but it often results in digestive symptoms which improve when gluten etc. is removed from the diet.
Many people, whether autistic or not, improve even more if they avoid all grains and starches althogether. Elaine Gottschall in Breaking the Vicious Cycle, explained the mechanism of gut injury and how and why her Specific Carbohydrate Diet helps it, even curing many cases of colitis.
It is true that there was no need to avoid grains in biblical times, but people then were not exposed to the vaccines and other toxins that have sensitized so many to grains etc. today.