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Healthier Without Wheat … A Must Read!

September 10th, 2009 at Thu, 10th, 2009 at 7:37 am by Lisa - Gluten Free Foodie

I just started to read this book by Dr. Stephen Wangen, “Healthier Without Wheat”. I had to put the book down because I thought it was so important to tell you about this book. It is an excellent book that helps to explain some very confusing information about Wheat Allergies, Celiac Disease and Non-Celiac Gluten Intolerance. I heard about this book at theGIG Conference that I attended earlier this year. Stephen had participated or responed to some of the questions during the various seminars that were offered. He mentioned his book several times. Ironically, after my ONE BITE episode, I picked up the book and began to read. I wanted to know if he had any further information as to why I was feeling so bad. I must say that some of the information I already knew but it was presented to me in a way that made me feel more empowered to stay motivated and get past this bump in the road.
Contact your local library, favorite bookstore orAmazon.com and get the book! Get a few copies of the book for your family and friends. Everyone must read this book just to be educated about the underlying causes of most illnesses.

The book is easy to read and beautifully organized to help you understand why we have so many problems with wheat, gluten and diagnosing problems associated with the sensitivities. Some of the information is hard to understand but once you read the book and then go back to certain sections it will make more sense as to why it is very important to take your intolerance, sensitivity or allergy to wheat or gluten very seriously.

Although living without wheat is hard to convince yourself to do, and may seem somewhat drastic, when you start to feel better and healthier it will be easier to understand. This is a great book that I will keep in my library to remind myself why I work so hard. It will continue to keep me motivated to plan gluten free meals, talk to grocery stores about offering more gluten free products, talking to restaurants and cafes about adding Gluten Free menus and talking to people like you who are trying to be healthier without wheat. I hope you find this book as helpful and informative as I do.
Enjoy!
Lisa

Learning to live Gluten Free is a challenge. Gathering with like minded people while exchanging ideas, life experiences and gluten free food is more interesting! So I created, Gluten Free Foodies, to support Gluten Intolerant and other Food Sensitive people by gathering at monthly events and celebrating the foods that we can eat! Feel free to send me an email at glutenfreefoodie@gmail.com After all, didn't Erma Bombeck once say ... "I am not a glutton, I am an explorer of food."

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