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Hypothyroidism- Gluten, Wheat and Sugar

Shalini_15
Shalini_15 Posts: 160 Member
edited February 13 in Food and Nutrition
Off late I have been coming across a lot of articles about how gluten, wheat and sugar are bad for weight loss especially when you are a Hypothyroid. I stay in India. Whole of my life I have been eating roti, chapathi (wheat bread), atleast 2 of our meals have them. I can understand about not eating refined flour (maida) and that was avoided at home also. I read that gluten is not good and most of the processed foods - bread (even the whole wheat ones). cakes, instant oats etc have it. Well, I agree processed foods have to be cut down anyways. But cutting down wheat completely is next to impossible for me as it is staple food for me and quite frustrating also. Could anyone suggest/advice if some work around can be done for this?

Coming to Sugar, refined sugar or white sugar has to be avoided or cut down. So can one include jaggery in the diet instead of sugar?

Also how do these impact thyroid functioning? I do take thyroid meds everyday.
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