Can you run well on a gluten-free diet?

Going gluten free can be very expensive and nutritionally less than optimal. Unless you have biopsy proven celiac disease , there is absolutely no medical reason to go gluten free. Ketogenic or at least low carb/ high fat is the way to go

I’ll take all your spare gluten, it’s very tasty. Thanks no gluten-eating cultists!

Scubacane wrote:

Going gluten free can be very expensive and nutritionally less than optimal.

Price per 2000 calories ~ gluten free

2.25 ~ bananas

3.33 ~ raisins

4.12 ~ malanga

4.84 ~ carrots

5.03 ~ sweet potatoes / yams

5.32 ~ sardines

free ~ greens ~ grow your own

Scubacane wrote:

Unless you have biopsy proven celiac disease , there is absolutely no medical reason to go gluten free. Ketogenic or at least low carb/ high fat is the way to go

You need to stop listening to big pharma commercials. High fat makes you SICK, impedes your brain functions, and makes you post stupid nonsense on the internet.

Of course, rice, potatoes and other starches are gluten free. However; there is no real need to stay away from gluten, unless you are allergic to gluten.

Oh really wrote:

Scubacane wrote:

Unless you have biopsy proven celiac disease , there is absolutely no medical reason to go gluten free. Ketogenic or at least low carb/ high fat is the way to go

You need to stop listening to big pharma commercials. High fat makes you SICK, impedes your brain functions, and makes you post stupid nonsense on the internet.

LOLOLOL, gluten == fat. Thanks for the laugh, bud. Pass the bread.

Oh really wrote:

Price per 2000 calories ~ gluten free

2.25 ~ bananas

3.33 ~ raisins

4.12 ~ malanga

4.84 ~ carrots

5.03 ~ sweet potatoes / yams

5.32 ~ sardines

free ~ greens ~ grow your own

You need to stop listening to big pharma commercials. High fat makes you SICK, impedes your brain functions, and makes you post stupid nonsense on the internet.

hahahahahahahaha wrote:

LOLOLOL, gluten == fat. Thanks for the laugh, bud. Pass the bread.

All of those foods listed are gluten free.

very concerned father wrote:

In the recent edition of "Nuts and Seeds" I read that a gluten-free diet can confer enormous benefits to most of the population. The peer-reviewed article revealed that the rising incidence of inflammatory bowel diseases and the well documented decline of IQ-levels of western populations are a direct consequence of a diet rich in gluten.

My competitive years are long over, however, my daughter just started steeplechase and I wonder if the gluten-free diet - which my wife and I already adopted - might be detrimental to her training, should she wish to adopt it too (we don't pressure her, even though she's overweight).

Ahhhh, its another concerned father/fat daughter post! I wondered where you were. Thought maybe your therapist made a breakthrough, but I guess once you go fat, you never go back.

You should post links to your prior work so fans can enjoy. I don't recall them all or the sequence: fat daughter wants a motorcycle, fat daughter wants to go to Japan, fat daughter wants to fly a plane....

I will admit the fat daughter runs steeple, mixed with a little gluten free action was a milder play, but I see you 'fat daughter ninja'.

Gluten free is a big fad. I'm starting to believe it was invented by pharmacy's to make money. I wouldn't do it to yourself if you have brains.

Banana Bread wrote:

Gluten free is a big fad. I'm starting to believe it was invented by pharmacy's to make money. I wouldn't do it to yourself if you have brains.

"Farmacy's"? Good Lord.

And you accuse others of not having brains?

apostrophe abuse wrote:

Banana Bread wrote:

Gluten free is a big fad. I'm starting to believe it was invented by pharmacy's to make money. I wouldn't do it to yourself if you have brains.

"Farmacy's"? Good Lord.

And you accuse others of not having brains?

Yeah, banananut is a little slow on the uptake.

Pharmacy is spelled with a "ph", not an "f", so now who doesn't have the brains? Gobble Gobble MF!

Banana Bread wrote:

Pharmacy is spelled with a "ph", not an "f", so now who doesn't have the brains? Gobble Gobble MF!

Pharmacies is the plural, not pharmacy's chowderhead. The guy was goofing on you.

I was driving, I made a typo, big deal. /end of conversation.

Ryan Hall was gluten free and he eated a bowl of gluten free pasta before his best marathon.

very concerned father wrote:

In the recent edition of "Nuts and Seeds" I read that a gluten-free diet can confer enormous benefits to most of the population. The peer-reviewed article revealed that the rising incidence of inflammatory bowel diseases and the well documented decline of IQ-levels of western populations are a direct consequence of a diet rich in gluten.

Link?

As far as I can tell, there's no journal titled "Nuts and Seeds". And from your one-sentence summary it sounds like bollocks. Peer-reviewed by nuts?

Oh really wrote:

Scubacane wrote:

Going gluten free can be very expensive and nutritionally less than optimal.

Price per 2000 calories ~ gluten free

2.25 ~ bananas

3.33 ~ raisins

4.12 ~ malanga

4.84 ~ carrots

5.03 ~ sweet potatoes / yams

5.32 ~ sardines

free ~ greens ~ grow your own

Scubacane wrote:

Unless you have biopsy proven celiac disease , there is absolutely no medical reason to go gluten free. Ketogenic or at least low carb/ high fat is the way to go

You need to stop listening to big pharma commercials. High fat makes you SICK, impedes your brain functions, and makes you post stupid nonsense on the internet.

And you need to stop listening to the sugar industry which is fueling the obesity, diabetes, mental illness epidemics of our current society . Fat isn’t the problem; carbs and sugars are. As an animal humans evolved to live on fat and protein for energy , not carbs. Before there was agriculture, there were little carbs in our diet. When we came across a carb source( fruit) we would load up because it was sweet . That was ok as we wouldn’t come across another source for weeks. Now carbs are everywhere and if they are not immediately used, they turn into triglycerides and visceral fat. Low fat diets and calorie restricted diets have been the norm in our society for decades and we have continued to become less healthy ; the reason: sugar- watch “ That Sugar Film”. You will change your eating habits

very concerned father wrote:

In the recent edition of "Nuts and Seeds" I read that a gluten-free diet can confer enormous benefits to most of the population. The peer-reviewed article revealed that the rising incidence of inflammatory bowel diseases and the well documented decline of IQ-levels of western populations are a direct consequence of a diet rich in gluten.

My competitive years are long over, however, my daughter just started steeplechase and I wonder if the gluten-free diet - which my wife and I already adopted - might be detrimental to her training, should she wish to adopt it too (we don't pressure her, even though she's overweight).

Wait, someone is making a connection that gluten leads to a decline in IQ? Please send me the link to this peer-reviewed article.

First, a recent article in Am Journal of Clinical Nutrition shows it is virtually impossible to be completely gluten free.

Second, if she has not been diagnosed, then you are depriving her of food that could be beneficial and also yummy!

Third, I suspect the rise in bowel disease has more to do with more people diagnosing it than an actual rise in prevalence.

Unless you have Celiac Disease, going gluten free will have no effect on you. Non-Celiac Gluten Sensitivity is not a real thing. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/next/body/unless-you-have-celiac-disease-gluten-sensitivity-is-probably-just-in-your-head/

I have a friend who legit has celiac(not self diagnosed) and runs 3:53, 8:12, 14:32, 30:03, 66:30. So yes, you can run fast on a gluten free diet.