All grains and all legumes have high levels of phytates, lectins, and 
carbohydrates, and are all best avoided. Gluten happens to be an 
extreme negative for some people, but they all contribute to various 
health problems to varying degrees. Leaky gut isn't all or nothing, 
and of course, isn't the only problem these anti-nutrients cause. My 
approach is to generally, almost entirely, avoid all grains and 
legumes, and still feel I have a rich and varied diet.

Check out the frozen Alaskan salmon burgers from Costco.

Hilary

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ro Countryman" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, November 03, 2009 8:04 PM
Subject: Question about Guten Free Products and Foreign Protein Issue?


> Hi, List!
>
> Some of you may remember me.  I'm Ro.  I haven't been here for 
> awhile--life,
> and all.   Good to talk to you again.
>
> I've been ill, and had issues, and life happen, yada, yada, and have 
> been
> off-Paleo for some time.  I'm getting ready to go back on.  As I do, 
> I have
> a question.
>
> But first, I thought you might find this interesting:  when I first 
> went on
> paleo, and lost 270 lbs, my doctors were dumbstruck.   But now, my
> neurologist has really come full-circle, and is pushing the 
> usefulness of
> gluten and dairy-free eating.  She's seen patients with complex 
> immune and
> neurological problems (like me) respond greatly to the regimine, and 
> she
> often tells them about my experience.  She's also been testing her 
> patients
> for Vitamin D levels and other things, and she said she's been 
> "shocked" at
> how low people's levels have been.
>
> I admit it's been gratifying, to finally get some support and 
> validation
> from the medical quarter for paleo and evolutionary nutrition.
>
> I'm also gratified, as I get back into it, to find there's a lot 
> more
> choices now, in the low-carb and gluten-free world of commercial 
> food
> products.  The local Harry's Farmer's market up the street--which 
> I'm lucky
> lucky lucky enough to live near since I moved to Atlanta when I
> remarried--it has a very good selection of grassfed meat products 
> from Ga
> farmers, and a lot of other things.
>
> Which brings me to my question:
>
> Are the gluten free type of bread and cracker and other products, 
> are these
> truly paleo-safe, in terms of health reactions?  In other words, if 
> you are
> concerned about leaky gut and Crohns and such, are they useful or 
> bad?
>
> I'm wondering if removing gluten is enough, in terms of the whole 
> foreign
> protein/leaky gut/immunological issues thing?   I haven't kept up, 
> so I
> don't know.  I do know that maintaining on pale might be much easier 
> with a
> few more convenience foods in my arsenal.  It certainly might let me 
> keep my
> husband more in the paleo eating loop if I could make him a sandwich 
> for his
> lunch sometimes, or crumble a few gluten-free crackers up to bind my 
> salmon
> patties.
>
> Thanks in advance for your help :-)
>
> best,
> Ro