Gfreely.com Launches Subscription Service

Gfreely.com recently launches it delivering care package service containing new gluten free foods, recipes and tips straight to the door of its customers, providing gluten free consumers a way to discover a new and unique gluten free products.

Gfreely.com is a company that produces gluten free foods. They recently launched their first subscription service focusing mainly on the gluten free consumers. Customers of Gfreely.com will receive every month a package containing gluten free foods, recipes and tips. They offer subscribers a monthly box of product at USD25 that normally would cost around USD40 in the open market.

As we are all aware off by now, gluten free diet is a growing trend worldwide and gluten free diet is increasingly being use as a dietary treatment for many conditions relating to gluten intolerance ranging from Celiac Disease to Parkinson's disease. Gfreely.com's subscription service will eases the burden of a gluten free diet, which can be challenging given the fact that gluten seems to be pervasive in modern diets especially Western diet.

Dan Schiffman, the founder of Gfreely.com once said that gluten free lifestyle should not prevent those with Celiac Disease or Gluten Intolerance from having a fulfilling and exciting relationship with food. Meanwhile, Gfreely.com on its part will assist in helping people discover gluten free new, healthy food and recipes.

For this to work, a team of gluten free foodies and health professionals will hand pick tasty gluten free foods from across America. This food will then be packaged and distribute to subscribers of Gfreely.com These packages are themed each month. One month it might be gluten free tacos and chips, another might be gluten free pizza and snacks. It also features varieties of ethnic cuisines, on-the-go snacks and full meals as well such as gluten free pizzas, bean salads and quinoa pasta dinners.

For further enlightenment, please visit Gfreely.com

NEWSFLASH

There's new rules that will be use for label and contents of baby milk and food for people with special need including gluten intolerance.

Special gluten labelling rules are also to be included in this legislation. Food products intended for people with gluten intolerance should contain less than 100 mg gluten per kg and may be labelled as having "very low gluten content" whilst those containing less than 20 mg of gluten per kg may be labelled "gluten free".

MEPs say the European Commission should prepare a study with a view to addressing the lack of specific rules for lactose intolerance.

For more information visit the EU Parliament.

GLUTEN FREE DIETS: should you or should you not?

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Gluten free was hardly heard of a few years back, but these days, it seems that is is becoming a trend even among celebs. There are even sports personal who use a gluten free diet to get the extra benefits both in health and performance. With all these hype, does this means that eating gluten based food hamper's one performance or it is just a simple awareness of food or Gluten Intolerance?

With Celiac Disease (an extreme side of Gluten Intolerance)the small intestines lack the ability to absorb nutrient, meanwhile making the gut permeable, thus allowing food into the bloodstream and triggering an inflammatory response.

For athletes, they have the same concerns when it comes to gluten sensitivity. During exercise, the gut is known to become permeable, especially when doing intense exercise. If that person is a Gluten Intolerance case, then the symptoms gets worse.

Nevertheless, athletes with Gluten Intolerance will not be missing out on the carbs needed for training or person without Gluten Intolerance will still be able to get all the nutrients the body needed if they (normal athletes) decided to go gluten free. You can still enjoy your favorites vegetables as well as fruits of your liking.

Heavy foods such as potatoes, sweet potatoes, pumpkins and squash are not only gluten free but also pack with the much needed nutrients for the body. Dinner with a combination of spaghetti using rice noodles or salmon with roasted pumpkin or mashed sweet potatoes is good to be taken before entering a race the next day.

When going the extra miles in training and or preparing for a race, you need a more calorie dense intake of food for immediate energy. The options includes carbohydrate concentrated sports drinks and bars (a gluten free food bars). Fortunately, there are drinks and food bars that are available commercially and in fact are gluten free too. ALWAYS CHECK THE LABEL, though just to be extra careful.

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GLUTEN FREE

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Gluten free is a term generally use to indicate a suppposed harmless level of gluten rather than a complete absence. However, the exact level of gluten which is harmless is uncertain and full of controversy. A systematic review tentatively concluded that a consumption of less than 10 mg of gluten per day is unlikely to cause abnormalities.

In a attempt to avoid all problems relating to gluten intolerance, it is therefore best to avoid or reduce intake of foods containing gluten. That is why people with problems that are related to gluten intolerance needs to look for foods that are gluten free. Nowadays, there are many options when attempting to live life without gluten. There are many gluten free foods available in the market. They are also a number of recipes that are gluten free.

To recap, gluten is the protein that present in wheat, barley, rye, and other grains that are closely related to the above-mentioned. Gluten does not exist in corn, rice or oats though gluten normally present in oats when processed. So naturally one should by products (oats) that are certified gluten free.

All processed foods most probably contain gluten for reasons such as a thickener, flavor (e.g., malt), binder or a big part of an ingredient in pizza, pasta, cakes, cookies, bread, you name it. Gluten can be used to stop stuff sticking together like a pre-packed grated cheese. Gluten also presents in many pharmaceuticals, make-up and household products.

Anyone who have celiac disease or a serious case of gluten intolerance can't get even a speck of gluten in their system without causing major serious short term and long term health problems.

Long term health problem associated with gluten intake for gluten intolerance or celiac disease patient includes bowel cancer, alzheimer's, gluten ataxia (similar to Parkinson's) while the short term health problem includes headaches and brain fog, psychosis to pains in the joints, diarrhea constipation or indigestion.

Autism in many cases seems to be a dietary problem. Families with autism kids have discovered that by omitting gluten, casein (a similar protein in milk product), soy and some other things associated with gluten, have manage to help their kids to normalize, enabling them to interact with other kids and do their school studies more easily.

Gluten intolerance is very common and not isolated. Use this quiz to discover whether you are gluten intolerant. The question listed here will give you some information on conditions and symptoms associated with gluten intolerance.

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Obviously gluten free can be define as foods that are processed or product created of which there is the absolute absent of gluten. There are foods nowadays that are gluten free. This include breads, cakes, candies, cereals, cookies, frozen food and so on. Usually to look for a product that are gluten free, one look at the food label and will know straight away whether the foo is safe to consume or not.

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In the meantime, why not try this recipe

"Walnut mocha chocolate dessert cake"?

100g dark chocolate – melted with 1 Tbs hot water and 2tsp instant coffee granules (15 seconds in microwave 1200 watts)

150g sugar

6 eggs, separated

125g butter – melted

1 tsp vanilla essence

1/3 cup tapioca flour

1/3 cup potato flour

½ tsp baking powder

1/3 tsp salt

1 tsp Xanthan gum

½ cup plain yoghurt

150g ground walnuts (save 50g whole walnuts for decoration – or about 8)

Icing:

1½ cups sifted icing sugar

125g softened butter

½ tsp vanilla essence

2 tsp coffee granules dissolved in 1 Tbs hot water

Glacé cherries to decorate

Grated chocolate to decorate

Walnuts to decorate

Toasted flaked almonds to decorate sides of cake

Melt chocolate and allow to cool.

Beat sugar and egg yolks together well.

Add melted butter, chocolate/coffee mix and vanilla and beat well.

Fold in flours, baking powder, salt and Xanthan gum that have been sifted together. Add yoghurt to the batter and stir well.

Fold in ground walnuts and stiffly beaten egg whites.

Divide cake batter into three and pour into three lined cake pans

Bake at 180ºC for 20 to 25 minutes (test with a skewer)

When cool, ice layers together, cover with butter icing and decorate.

Icing: Beat all ingredients together very well – you may need more butter and icing sugar since the whole cake needs to be covered with the icing.

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GLUTEN : WHEN IT HAPPENNED

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People who have Gluten Intolerance or Celiac Disease, when ingesting food containing gluten will have their immune system responds by releasing antibodies that damage or to some extent destroy the intestinal villi - a part of the small intestines.

Normally, small intestines is lined with finger like villi that absorb crucial nutrients from food. In a person with celiac disease, these villi flats outs and the inside of the small intestines looks more like a smooth surface, thus it cannot absorb nutrients effectively. This generally leads to malnutrition, no matter the amount of food we eat.

However there is a difference between gluten intolerance and celiac disease where in person with gluten intolerance, it does not cause the same kind of intestinal damage, but still leads to an uncomfortable abdominal symptoms with the intake of gluten based food.

Gluten intolerance is thought to affect roughly 10% of world population. The symptoms include bloating, abdominal discomfort, pain or diarrhea, or it may appears with variety of extra intestinal symptoms including headaches and migraines, lethargy and tiredness, attention-deficit disorder and hypeactivity, schizophrenia, muscular disturbance as well as bone and joint pain.

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SIGNS OF GLUTEN INTOLERANCE IN CHILDREN

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Usually, the signs of gluten intolerance or coeliac condition in children can only be seen after the age of six months when they started eating grain-based foods for the first time. However, there are cases where the small intestine's immune system reaction to gluten - a protein found in the endosperm of wheat and certain other grains except rice and corn - does not appear until the children are at school age or even up to adulthood.

Coeliac or gluten intolerance could be the reason if a child suffers from chronic diarrhea and bloating as well as having little appetite and hardly gains weight. Coeliac disease often runs in families. It is caused by the inflammation in the small intestines and damages the lining of villi, a tiny, hair like projections that absorb nutrients from foods that we eat.

It is also now known that coeliac disease affect other organs system as well, such as the nervous system, heart, liver, kidneys and skin.

A lifetime abstention of foods that contains gluten including wheat, rye and oats is the only effective treatment against coeliac disease.

Gluten can be found in products made from flour such as bread, cakes, pies, biscuits as well as in tinned food and certain kinds of sausage and cheese. It can even be use as a food stabilizer, emulsifiers, flavour enhancers, spices, separating agents and also used to thicken fruit juices.

A child who follows the strict rules of eating non-gluten foods will generally get well again in six to twelve months time. The diarrhea will generally subside and the child can again catch up on retarded growth. However, once the symptoms have disappeared, the child must maintain the strict gluten free diet or the risk of getting a bowel cancer will increased.

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