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> bread ... hot dog buns ... cereal Without regard to this particular policy, those are all foods that your young relative is better off avoiding along with se

> bread ... hot dog buns ... cereal Without regard to this particular policy, those are all foods that your young relative is better off avoiding along with sesame seeds. I have been forced to avoid them for many years now due to different health issues, and it turned out to be a blessing that was hard to appreciate at the beginning.

ccooffee 3y ago
This is such a vague comment to be useless for GP. Do you have some issue with carbs? High calorie foods? Something against processed foods? Gluten? Plastic sensitivity? Why was it a blessing? What made you start appreciating it? etc. etc.
- hirundo 3y ago
  Diabetes 2, morbid obesity, gastroparesis, i.e. usual effects of Metabolic Syndrome. These have become shockingly common in children in recent years. Several years ago the gastroparesis got very bad and I was forced onto a low residue, low carb diet. The result was a 90% resolution of the gastroparesis, a 75% resolution of the obesity and complete remission of the diabetes. And a much higher quality of life. I wish I had started younger, but nothing short of that kind of compulsion would have made me. Few kids need to go to such extremes, but most would benefit from the absence of flours.
  - raverbashing 3y ago
    I'd bame the massive amounts of HFCS that every food is pumped in the US instead of "flours" first Now that I think of it I wonder how much of 'gluten issues' is actually due to all those foods having excess sugar added to it
    - jwestbury 3y ago
      It's really a peculiar take to blame "flours" for all these modern childhood ailments, given that the poor largely subsisted on flour-based products (bread, pasta, etc.) for centuries prior to modern times.
      - hirundo 3y ago
        https://chriskresser.com/10-ways-refined-flour-can-damage-your-health/ https://chriskresser.com/10-ways-refined-flour-can-damage-yo... IMO flours have been damaging people in many of these ways for centuries. Since the agricultural revolution. That damage came along with a nice perk -- not starving. But if now we're affluent enough to not starve without it, that's a good thing.

ccooffee 3y ago

This is such a vague comment to be useless for GP. Do you have some issue with carbs? High calorie foods? Something against processed foods? Gluten? Plastic sensitivity? Why was it a blessing? What made you start appreciating it? etc. etc.

hirundo 3y ago
Diabetes 2, morbid obesity, gastroparesis, i.e. usual effects of Metabolic Syndrome. These have become shockingly common in children in recent years. Several years ago the gastroparesis got very bad and I was forced onto a low residue, low carb diet. The result was a 90% resolution of the gastroparesis, a 75% resolution of the obesity and complete remission of the diabetes. And a much higher quality of life. I wish I had started younger, but nothing short of that kind of compulsion would have made me. Few kids need to go to such extremes, but most would benefit from the absence of flours.
- raverbashing 3y ago
  I'd bame the massive amounts of HFCS that every food is pumped in the US instead of "flours" first Now that I think of it I wonder how much of 'gluten issues' is actually due to all those foods having excess sugar added to it
  - jwestbury 3y ago
    It's really a peculiar take to blame "flours" for all these modern childhood ailments, given that the poor largely subsisted on flour-based products (bread, pasta, etc.) for centuries prior to modern times.
    - hirundo 3y ago
      https://chriskresser.com/10-ways-refined-flour-can-damage-your-health/ https://chriskresser.com/10-ways-refined-flour-can-damage-yo... IMO flours have been damaging people in many of these ways for centuries. Since the agricultural revolution. That damage came along with a nice perk -- not starving. But if now we're affluent enough to not starve without it, that's a good thing.