Bread and Apples — Food for the Body, Mind and Spirit

Gluten Sensitivity: All or Nothing?

May 10, 2010

I just read another great post from the HealthNOW Doctors on gluten sensitivity called Can You Be a “Little” Gluten Sensitive?. In Dr. Vikki Petersen’s opinion, gluten sensitivity appears to be “an all or nothing proposition.” Moreover, she points out that just because you don’t have an immediate reaction to gluten does not mean you’re [...]

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Is Wheat Lectin More Dangerous Than Gluten?

January 16, 2010

I read an interesting article on Mercola.com today called The Critical Role of Wheat in Human Disease about another potential problem with wheat consumption. The danger in this case comes, not from gluten, but from lectin, which is found in all seeds of the grass family (rice, wheat, spelt, rye, etc.): Lectin is a type [...]

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Gluten in the Media

January 3, 2010

I just read a great article on gluten on the Huffington Post called Gluten: What You Don’t Know Might Kill You. The author, Mark Hyman, MD, (who wrote The UltraMind Solution and publishes The UltraWellness Blog) discusses gluten sensitivity, celiac disease, some surprising (and not-so-surprising) diseases that can be caused by eating gluten, testing for [...]

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The Twilight Saga — A Poor Example for Teen Romance

December 27, 2009

And now for something completely different… * * * So—read Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight saga? Seen the first movie? Seen “New Moon”? I ask because I’m about to go off on a rant. Yes, that’s right. I’m joining the fray and putting in my two cents about the romanticization of abusive and co-dependent relationships. Abusive and [...]

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Those Korean Healing Balls are a Scream…

December 22, 2009

Have I mentioned my love of exploration? For some reason, I’m up for all sorts of weird styles of bodywork and healing therapies. Partly it’s because I have a lot of “stuff”—old injuries that never healed properly, chronic pains, mystery ailments, stuff like that. So it doesn’t take much arm-twisting to get me to try [...]

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How Digestible Is Your Bread?

November 6, 2009

After I wrote my last post about my gluten sensitivity and bread and all that good stuff, I came across an article called Bread Dread: Are You Really Gluten Intolerant? from the Native Nutrition blog on Nourished Magazine. In this article the author discusses how in the 1950s, in order to mass produce loaves of [...]

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Gluten (Allergy) Free?

October 25, 2009

I fully anticipated writing a post entitled The NAET Experience: Gluten Allergy to follow the post on my NAET B-complex experience. There was a little problem, though. The whole thing would have read something like this: For 25 hours I avoided gluten. That meant that I ate…just what I always eat. Except for the fact [...]

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The NAET Experience: B-Complex Allergy

October 12, 2009

I don’t do well with deprivation. Really, I don’t. I used to be great with deprivation (for all the wrong reasons), but now, not so much. You wouldn’t think a 25-hour diet of white rice, fish, and cauliflower would be a big deal. It is. Oh—let me clarify. That’s plain white rice, plain fish, and [...]

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Gluten Hide and Seek

October 11, 2009

So, you’ve made the decision to go gluten-free. Maybe you’ve been diagnosed with gluten intolerance or Celiac Disease, or maybe you’re simply curious to find out if going off gluten will clear up some chronic health issues. Whatever your situation, you’ve made the commitment and now you need to get gluten out of your diet. [...]

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My Life, With Plastic

October 7, 2009

A few weeks ago, I decided to give Network Chiropractic (also known as Network Spinal Analysis) another try. My body’s a bit wonky and most bodyworkers can’t quite figure out what to do with me (which is another story entirely)—but I’ve had some decent results with Network before, and there’s a practitioner quite near my [...]

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