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.
