Crazy Sexy Diet: Eat Your Veggies, Ignite Your Spark, and Live Like You Mean It! by Kris Carr, Rory Freedman (Preface), Dean Ornish M.D. (Foreword)
Tags: General, Medical, Self-Help, Health, Health & Fitness, Women, Nutrition, Motivational & Inspirational, Diets, Diet Therapy, Women - Health and hygiene, Vegetarianism
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for a long time than at a high temperature for a short time.
Being overweight is inflammatory. Fat cells, especially the ones that sit around your waist and belly, are the most dangerous because they actually produce inflammation. Keeping your weight in check is a great anti-inflammatory move—and an anti-inflammatory diet will help you do that, including the Crazy Sexy Diet.
Lilli B. Link, MD , is a boardcertified internist currently practicing as a nutritional counselor in New York City. She specializes in raw foods and integrative nutrition. Visit her at www.llinkmd.com .
GLUTEN-FREE LIVING
While we’re talking about sugar, carbs, and inflammation, let’s talk about a major health issue that is often overlooked: gluten intolerance. It’s a pain-in-the-ass condition that could easily be affecting you. In fact, if you’ve tried everything, been tested for everything, changed your diet significantly, and still feel lousy, then avoiding gluten might be the missing link to your vibrant health. Sensitivity to gluten—a protein found in wheat, rye, and barley—could be the culprit behind digestive problems like bloating, cramps, diarrhea, fatigue, achy joints, and even skin rashes. People who are more than just mildly sensitive to gluten have these symptoms big time. They have celiac disease, which can cause severe damage to the small intestine and serious nutrition issues.
Remember what Dr. Link just taught us about what happens in our bodies when we eat inflammatory foods? Well, an allergy to gluten is similar. It’s like having an inner injury created by a foreign invader. What happens next? Your awesome body goes into whoop-ass mode to destroy the bad guy (gluten). Unfortunately, this heroic gesture only causes more inflammation. Ugh, I’m exhausted.
A surprisingly large number of people are sensitive to gluten and experience some or all of the symptoms whenever they eat wheat and the other grains. But since most people don’t know about the effects of gluten sensitivity, they chalk their symptoms up to other problems such as irritable bowel syndrome or even depression and then pop medications that don’t really help, when all they really need to do is change their diet.
Celiac disease used to be thought of as a rare childhood phenomenon. It turns out that it’s much more common and doesn’t always start in childhood. More than two million people in the United States have celiac disease—that’s 1 in every 133 people, and the number could actually be as high as 1 in every 100 people. According to researchers at the Mayo Clinic, for every person diagnosed with celiac disease, it’s possible that there are as many as thirty more who have it but haven’t been diagnosed. They say celiac disease is four times more common now in the US than it was in the 1950s.
There’s a simple way to know if gluten is not your friend: Stop eating it and see how you feel. It’s amazing how chronic problems, like fatigue, bloating, gas, and diarrhea, clear up when you kick out the gluten.
GLUTEN INTOLERANCE
symptoms
Gluten intolerance or celiac disease could be the culprit lurking behind any of these symptoms:
Diarrhea, especially if it happens often for no apparent reason
Abdominal pain
Bloating and gas
Foul-smelling poop
Anemia
Depression
Irritability
Joint pain
Mouth sores
Muscle cramps
Skin rash
Osteoporosis
Neuropathy (tingling or pain in the legs and feet)
The only treatment for gluten intolerance or celiac disease is a gluten-free diet. Gluten is found in every single form of wheat. That includes durum (the kind used for flour), semolina (the kind used for pasta), spelt, kamut, einkorn, farro, and other forms of wheat, such as wheat germ and bulgur. Gluten is also found in grains related to wheat: rye, barley, and triticale (a cross between wheat and rye). If you have celiac disease, you have to completely eliminate these grains from your diet and your life.
If you’re
Being overweight is inflammatory. Fat cells, especially the ones that sit around your waist and belly, are the most dangerous because they actually produce inflammation. Keeping your weight in check is a great anti-inflammatory move—and an anti-inflammatory diet will help you do that, including the Crazy Sexy Diet.
Lilli B. Link, MD , is a boardcertified internist currently practicing as a nutritional counselor in New York City. She specializes in raw foods and integrative nutrition. Visit her at www.llinkmd.com .
GLUTEN-FREE LIVING
While we’re talking about sugar, carbs, and inflammation, let’s talk about a major health issue that is often overlooked: gluten intolerance. It’s a pain-in-the-ass condition that could easily be affecting you. In fact, if you’ve tried everything, been tested for everything, changed your diet significantly, and still feel lousy, then avoiding gluten might be the missing link to your vibrant health. Sensitivity to gluten—a protein found in wheat, rye, and barley—could be the culprit behind digestive problems like bloating, cramps, diarrhea, fatigue, achy joints, and even skin rashes. People who are more than just mildly sensitive to gluten have these symptoms big time. They have celiac disease, which can cause severe damage to the small intestine and serious nutrition issues.
Remember what Dr. Link just taught us about what happens in our bodies when we eat inflammatory foods? Well, an allergy to gluten is similar. It’s like having an inner injury created by a foreign invader. What happens next? Your awesome body goes into whoop-ass mode to destroy the bad guy (gluten). Unfortunately, this heroic gesture only causes more inflammation. Ugh, I’m exhausted.
A surprisingly large number of people are sensitive to gluten and experience some or all of the symptoms whenever they eat wheat and the other grains. But since most people don’t know about the effects of gluten sensitivity, they chalk their symptoms up to other problems such as irritable bowel syndrome or even depression and then pop medications that don’t really help, when all they really need to do is change their diet.
Celiac disease used to be thought of as a rare childhood phenomenon. It turns out that it’s much more common and doesn’t always start in childhood. More than two million people in the United States have celiac disease—that’s 1 in every 133 people, and the number could actually be as high as 1 in every 100 people. According to researchers at the Mayo Clinic, for every person diagnosed with celiac disease, it’s possible that there are as many as thirty more who have it but haven’t been diagnosed. They say celiac disease is four times more common now in the US than it was in the 1950s.
There’s a simple way to know if gluten is not your friend: Stop eating it and see how you feel. It’s amazing how chronic problems, like fatigue, bloating, gas, and diarrhea, clear up when you kick out the gluten.
GLUTEN INTOLERANCE
symptoms
Gluten intolerance or celiac disease could be the culprit lurking behind any of these symptoms:
Diarrhea, especially if it happens often for no apparent reason
Abdominal pain
Bloating and gas
Foul-smelling poop
Anemia
Depression
Irritability
Joint pain
Mouth sores
Muscle cramps
Skin rash
Osteoporosis
Neuropathy (tingling or pain in the legs and feet)
The only treatment for gluten intolerance or celiac disease is a gluten-free diet. Gluten is found in every single form of wheat. That includes durum (the kind used for flour), semolina (the kind used for pasta), spelt, kamut, einkorn, farro, and other forms of wheat, such as wheat germ and bulgur. Gluten is also found in grains related to wheat: rye, barley, and triticale (a cross between wheat and rye). If you have celiac disease, you have to completely eliminate these grains from your diet and your life.
If you’re
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