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On my bike today, I passed a supermarket that had changed brand to a one that normally has quite a lot of gluten free stuff, also in their freezer. So I got of my bike and decided to give it a try. Of course I couldn't find it and asked one of people working in the shop. He was very kind, but no they had not gluten free stuff in their freezer. They (the supermarket) mainly focuss on families and students............oh.........did go around in my had. So we have different kind of people, student, families, single working people and the people eating gluten free?? My reply was, yes but glutenfree people can be part of a family or students too . Than he got quiet and did not really had an answer back.
Than he referred me to the organic part of shop, my first reply was, "gluten free and organic are two totally different things". But here I was not totally fair on him, because the organic part was also the diet part. They even had Gabes chocolate there, Bovista, diary, soy and glutenfree.
But it is still amazing how something gluten free can be confused with organic food. There are even people eating gluten free here but eat organic bread made of spelt (hope I write it correct it is type of an older typegrain but with gluten). Their motivation, it is organic so it is healthy and spelt is an older type of grain and more original, natural, a primordial grain. And than even mor hocus pocus, that the body recognizes it, has no problem with digesting that instead of the modern (genetic) modified grains.........sigh........sure keep on dreaming.
It keeps on amazing me (in general not here on this board) how some people think that everything that natural and/or organic must be healthy. In general yes of course this is most of the time true, but when it comes to food allergies and special diets, organic, natural normal bread is worse for you than industrial chemical but glutenfree bread.
glutenfree... a different kind of people :-))
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glutenfree... a different kind of people :-))
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Harma,
Good point - so many businesses try to classify people, as you say, into separate and distinct categories, but, of course, that type of thinking doesn't apply to something such as gluten-sensitivity. True, it is genetically connected with certain ethnic backgrounds, but that demographic tends to span all of the categories that most businesses use for "classifying" people. As a result, we might be "different", but we tend to come from all walks of life, and we don't fit any of their "categories" very well.
The employee's reaction suggests that most people in the world consider a GF diet to be more of a health fad, rather than a treatment for a food-based disease.
Tex
Good point - so many businesses try to classify people, as you say, into separate and distinct categories, but, of course, that type of thinking doesn't apply to something such as gluten-sensitivity. True, it is genetically connected with certain ethnic backgrounds, but that demographic tends to span all of the categories that most businesses use for "classifying" people. As a result, we might be "different", but we tend to come from all walks of life, and we don't fit any of their "categories" very well.
The employee's reaction suggests that most people in the world consider a GF diet to be more of a health fad, rather than a treatment for a food-based disease.
Tex
It is suspected that some of the hardest material known to science can be found in the skulls of GI specialists who insist that diet has nothing to do with the treatment of microscopic colitis.
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My grocery store has several isles of gluten and organic products. But at least they try to giving the gluten free products their own isle and don't mix it in with the organic whole grain wheat products. It's only mixed in the freezer and refrigerator section of the organic/gluten-free section. I guess I'm "lucky" that we have a very large population of children/young adults with autism in the area and a LOT of them follow a gluten-free and casein-free diet. Small things to be grateful for.
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