Gluten Free Foods

I don't think I am allergic to gluten, however, whenever I eliminate it from my diet, I usually end up losing weight more sufficiantly.

Could this be because I do have a slight sensitivity to gluten. Should I possibly just eliminate it completely?

Any knowledge about this topic please contribute!

When you cut out gluten, you also cut out a lot of fat without realizing it. If you think about it, all pastry has fat to make it, pasta always comes with oil or a greasy sauce, pizza has loads of fatty cheese and stuff on top (though we don't really notice this), bread goes with butter…

So when you cut it out for just a little while, you probably don't substitute for it - not like for like, anyway. You end up cutting out lots of fat (which has like three times as many calories as carbs and protein), so you lose weight. After a while on the gluten free diet, you find ways to substitute for the things you haven't been eating, and the weight loss stops.

Mind you, if you are gluten intolerant and you cut out gluten, you may find your appetite goes away, because you are able to absorb everything you are eating properly, so that would also help.

I miss pandas express food so much but esp the orange chicken that I want to learn to make my own now that I must be on a gluten free diet.thanks!

It's pretty hard to find specifc recipes like that that are already gluten free.

But would be easier and more affective to "de-gluten" a recipe
in other words - find whatever recipe you want and make it gluten free by substituting gluten free ingredients for the ones that contain gluten.

For Flour as a batter for the chicken - use either straight cornstarch or a GF dry pancake mix like Pamela's brand.

And make sure the soy sauce you are using if GF, braggs amino acids is OK.

Found these panda express recipes online - they need to be "de glutened" http://www.cdkitchen.com/recipes/recs/525/Panda_Express_Orange_Chicken31444.shtml

http://www.recipezaar.com/Panda-Express-Orange-Chicken-Copycat-156342

A note about eating out - Pei Wei & PF Changs both have Gluten Free menus and can fill that Chinese take out void.
Good luck.

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Just looking for stories about whether it worked or didn’t work to help with autism or PDD. Did anyone try it with a picky eater?

Gluten free diets are necessary for Celiac disease where you lack the enzyme needed to help digest gluten, and as a result can get inflammation of the lining of the small intestine.

There is no good evidence that restricting gluten or casein has any role whatsoever in the treatment of autism or PDD. The cause of autism and PDD is unknown (it is NOT related to MMR vaccine or thimerosol preservative…that is definitive, ignore Jenny McCarthy). It may well turn out that nutrition plays a role in management, but the evidence is lacking.

EDIT Cindy M. Where did I claim to "know everything" and how was I mocking in my answer? I was simply stating a fact, the scientific evidence is lacking for the diets mentioned. Anecdotes are always interesting and inspiring, but they are not evidence of anything. The plural of anecdote is not data. It makes no difference at all whether I have an autistic child or not, because my personal experience would also be meaningless.

The reason we study these sorts of things with randomized double blind placebo controlled trials is that it controls for error and bias. Your friends child could have got better for reasons other than diet. Maybe people were paying more attention to her, maybe they were seeing things that were more subjective and driven by emotion, maybe maybe maybe. We don't actually KNOW without looking at this in an objective way. We also don't know if it may harm children.
It is simply an unproven speculation, not a fact.

Don't take my word for it…here is one (of many) reviews on dietary supplements done by the world famous, highly respected Cochrane Collaberation. They are an unbiased group of scientists who look at ALL the literature available, analyze it and put together all the data. This is THE gold standard for evidence based medicine.

"Gluten- and casein-free diets for autistic spectrum disorder"
http://www.cochrane.org/reviews/en/ab003498.html

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