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Is a gluten free diet the sport person’s secret weapon? | Julianne's Paleo & Zone Nutrition Blog

Well this is interesting! Sports people seem to be benefiting from cutting gluten grains out of their diets. And in cutting gluten grains like wheat they also eliminate a host of other ‘nasties’ like Wheat Germ Agglutinin, Gliadin, Gliadomorpin, Aspartic- and glutamic acid, phytic acid and Enzyme inhibitors. Read this new article from Dr Mercola “3 Ounces of This a Day May Be Harming Your Brain”

A while back we heard about Novak Djokovic changing to a gluten free diet after discovering he was gluten sensitive, and consequently improving his game:  The Diet That Shook Up Tennis? Starch Madness: Novak Djokovic’s Domination of the Sport Has Coincided With His Gluten-Free Turn

And news to hand....
he has just won the Wimbledon title

And now – news just in from the The Tour de France 2011 – stage two: Thor Hushovd took the yellow jersey after Garmin-Cervelo won the team time trial. And I have just read (thanks to Twitter peeps) they are on a gluten free / very close to paleo diet.

Why? “The advantage of a gluten-free diet is that it is anti-inflammatory, meaning the diet helps the body’s natural mending process.” This is from an article is written in http://www.slipstreamsports.com. which I have posted further down the page. I’ve highlighted passages of interest.

Instead of gluten grains – the team eat rice plus fruit and veggies for their carbs. According to Paul Jaminet (Perfect Health Diet) rice is a non toxic grain – it does not have the anti-nutrient, gut irritating issues of other grains.