What is Gluten?
Gluten is a special type of protein that is commonly found in rye, wheat, barley, kamut or spelt. Therefore, it is in most types of cereals and in many types of bread, pasta, pizza, cake, and cookies. Accordingly, you will find it in nearly all fast, and processed, foods.
Up to 30 % of the people in our hemisphere, according to latest research, are overly sensitive to glutem.
It causes for them severe health damages. Like with diabetes, the intolerance to gluten turned into one of the biggest health challenges, with wrathful symptoms that affect a patients life quality severely. Or, with no symptoms, but equally bad effects. Since the tissues of the intestines get inflamed and destroyed, nutritional agents can't reach their destination.
For a gluten sensitive person, any exception in the diet is followed by various symtoms, and very uncomfortable consequences that more often than not ruin the day … if not several.
Nature Works in Our Favor
Having the right foods available saves you from making half hearted compromises, or fall in the trap of "only one exception." TASTE LIFE is the first online store in Dubai – and throughout the whole Middle East – that took the effort to offer the best gluten free in all the different areas, from pizza over bread to snacks, and even cosmetics.
Not all foods from the grain family contain gluten. Examples that do not have that specific protein include rice, corn, buckwheat, millet, amaranth, quinoa, teff, gluten free oats, soy-beans, and sunflower seeds.
Apart from that, there are also flours that give wonderful flavors to your cooking, and baking, like chickpea, potato or almond flour.
- An estimated 30 %+ of the population is overly sensitive to gluten
- Gluten, a specific protein, is contained in wheat, rye, barley, spelt, kamut, and oats (the least due to cross contamination)
- Bread, pasta, pizza, cake, cookies, and nearly 90 % of processed foods (can, fast food) have gluten
- Celiac disease, a genitic disorder, is the full-blown version of gluten intolerance that is acquired over years through a diet with lots of wheat and other gluten containing flours. Genetically engineered foods could also be one of the reasons. Symptoms of both conditions are very similar
- Patients, even without full-blown celiac, but 'only' gluten intolerance, suffer from the same. They all are prone to minimum 55 known serious and even life threatening health complications
- 99% of the affected people are undiagnosed and don’t know about the root of their condition
- There are people with gluten intolerance who have no symptoms at all, but the same internal damages, caused by the protein cluster
- After more than 50 years of intense research, most physicians are just starting to study, and interprete, the complex signs in blood counts and tissues they need to test, and look for
- The only cure is a strict diet with no gluten at all
www.GlutenFree-Supermarket.ae is Dubai’s first completely gluten free online store that delivers not only products, but facts how to use them, to hotels, hospitals, schools, and kindergardens, on demand.
LITERATURE
The Huffington Post
Shocking News: What Scienctists Found Out About the Effects of Gluten
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-mark-hyman/gluten-what-you-dont-know_b_379089.html?ref=fb&src=sp&comm_ref=false
Journal of the American Medical Association
The Risk of Heart Disease and Cancer If You Are Sensitive to Gluten
http://preview.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19755695?itool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_RVDocSum&ordinalpos=3
An Increase of Celiac Disease of 400 % During the Last 50 Years
http://preview.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19362553?itool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_RVDocSum&ordinalpos=2
The New England Journal of Medicine
55 Diseases that Can Be Caused By Eating Gluten
http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMra010852
The National Review
http://www.thenational.ae/national-blog/bites?articleID=2092
Dubai Confidential
http://www.dubaiconfidential.ae/health-kicks/the-uae%E2%80%99s-first-online-gluten-free-supermarket-goes-live/
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