What's up with people eating Gluten Free ?

You may be right. I guess time will tell. I don't know if there are varying degrees of the disease and I have a light case, or if I've built up a tolerance over time, or if it's just secretly doing damage and I'll regret it later - it just doesn't seem to affect me overly much. A few small annoyances here and there, but nothing that makes me take pause and nothing that's made it worth fussing over.

Not everyone who has it has discomfort. My friend's husband got diagnosed when his blood tests came back showing low iron and that was one of the things they checked him for. He had no other symptoms.

I suspect I have it because of a rash on my chest that sounds exactly like a rash that is directly connected to celiac and when I don't eat gluten for a while, I notice I have a lot more energy in general and few things I didn't even know were wrong suddenly clear up. There is a world of difference in how I feel overall and I didn't even know I didn't feel well to begin with.

I haven't received an official diagnosis, though, so who knows?

The problem is that even if you have no obvious physical symptoms, you're still slowly killing yourself. You might want to look up the consequences of a celiac eating gluten. I have a friend who nearly died from it.

Well, what I don't know can't kill me, right? Wait...

Great attitude to have!

I've been told by professionals that if you go gluten free without medically needing to, it can be bad for your health.

Professional what? :huh:

You know... MEDICAL PROFESSIONALS......

A lot of people go GF because they think they can lose weight. A lot of GF products are actually similar or even higher in calories so of course, this doesn't work.

I'm not celiac but I still choose to eat GF because I feel better when I avoid gluten. The longer I go with no gluten in my diet, the worse the gastrointestinal distress when I eat it. My husband used to think I was just doing this for a fad diet too, but quickly changed his mind the few times I tested the theory and could clear the whole house with my....uh...gaseous aroma (sorry if TMI).

If you've ever read Wheat Belly, you could understand why people might drink the GF kool-aid and forego gluten forever - while the author does have some good points, he's a little extreme in his views. Wheat Belly is a very popular book and I suspect most GF fad-dieters got their information from there.

oh man. Wheat Belly. One of my long time good friends read that and she's been so much harder to be around since then!! haha Although the funny (to me) part is half the time when she's telling me about how we're all killing ourselves with wheat and gluten she's eating something with gluten in it.

I was dealing with some pretty intense abdominal pain for a couple of years, and my doctors couldn't figure out why. When I reluctantly and skeptically traded wheat products for corn and rice, I dropped 10 pounds of water in a week! Seriously, I couldn't stop peeing. I think it was the inflammation calming down, because the pain also went away. I had to trade in a swimsuit that I bought only the week before for a smaller size.

I tested negative for celiac disease. However, every time I add normal bread products back into my diet, I get abdominal pain that keeps me up at night and I gain several pounds within days. When I stop eating wheat, the pain goes away and my weight drops again. I have tested this several times over the last two years, and the results are consistent.

Is it gluten sensitivity? I have no idea. It could be some other molecule in wheat bread/pasta/cereal. It could be just a highly unlikely coincidence. It could be that the food fairy is messing with me.

Until I know for sure, I'm grateful for gluten free.

Persuade people that GF is "healthy" and required.

Sell GF products for twice the normal price.

Profit

Why do you care OP? Let people decide what's good for them.

Some have medical reasons, some like to feel fancy, some need a new religion, and others just want to. It won't kill ya not to eat it, so I'd say that they're all pretty valid reasons as far as personal choice is concerned.

I just like saying "gluten".

I pronounce it with an exaggerated pseudo-Swedish accent. Like there's an umlaut over the "u".

My baby breaks out in blisters that open and won't heal until gluten is out of his system (2-4 weeks) . he doesn't have celiac disease. I have IBS gluten cases severe cramps for me so we just avoid it...

I miss cookies and doughnuts