Going Gluten Free can contribute to diabetes

Under the following specific conditions:

If you replace gluten with rice.

The problem is that rice converts to sugar at a much much higher rate than gluten does.

So, when I learned this I was very upset at learning I might have brought my own pre-diabtic condition on by replacing wheat bread and wheat pasta and wheat pizza crust with rice bread, rice pasta and rice pizza crusts. I was really upset about this.

The positive effects of no gluten are (you are pain free like a 20 year old without the muscle pains of your joints) and you tend to lose weight when you don't eat gluten).

So, if you are over 40 being pain free and losing weight is wonderful.

However, then if you are replacing the gluten with rice bread, rice pasta and rice pizza crusts you might slowly be making yourself diabetic if you are eating enough of these rice based crackers, bread and pizza crusts.

So, I found myself enraged when I found all this out.

MY thought was: "You just can't win."

So, when people find this out often they are very upset like I was.

I had a test to see if I was actually allergic to gluten and my MD said according to the test I was not allergic.

So, I gave up everything with rice in it and went back to eating gluten. The problem with this is the weight I had lost I started to gain back.

My thought now is I need to go about a month without any gluten or rice products at all and I will lose weight only eating veggies and only one fruit a day.

The other thing you cannot have if you are pre-diabietic is fruit juice of any kind because the fructose (sugar) is too concentrated to drink. However, you can have usually one fruit you eat a day like an orange or an apple or a mango (depending upon at what stage of pre-diabetes you are at at that point).

So, surviving past 40 or 50 as you can see is a real ordeal in many different ways but it is possible as we all can see by the 70,000 to 100,000 in the U.S. who are still alive at over 100.

I don't know anyone who is over 100 right now (unless it is Saint Germain) but I know someone who is 96 and still going strong and who was still flying his plane at age 85 and flew me all over in his Beechcraft bonanza V tail then and was president of his flying club still then.