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Soaking Grains Exploration RETURNS!

January 13th, 2011 · 13 Comments · Food for Thought, Science of Nutrition

Pin It A whopping 54% of responders in my reader survey last summer nailed me on my final "fun" question, which read: "Will the soaking grains series ever wrap up?" Those 300+ people chose either "Nope. Katie’s a lifer," or "Of course…when the cows come home and pigs fly!" Thanks, folks. Another 30% are already [...]

Test Your Grains: More Survey Results

January 7th, 2011 · 9 Comments · Upgraded Nutrition

Pin It Before the holiday break, I shared with you the first set of results from the Test Your Grains Challenge, in which participants committed to eating grains only prepared in a certain style for 7-10 days: all refined grains, all whole grains, soaked, sprouted, sourdough, gluten-free, or no grains were the choices. To recap: [...]

Test Your Grains Challenge Survey: Initial Results and Some Anecdotes

December 22nd, 2010 · 15 Comments · Upgraded Nutrition

Pin It I wish I knew why my procrastination kicks in especially intensely on projects like this Test Your Grains Challenge. I should have been evaluating the responses over a month ago, but it was always the item on the list that I skipped for something else, even boring things like bringing some semblance of [...]

Food for Thought: Katie Learns About Gluten

November 5th, 2010 · 86 Comments · Food for Thought, Science of Nutrition

Pin It Is gluten good or evil? I’ve received a couple emails just in the past week from opposite sides of the court on this one, and it just demonstrates how controversial and confusing gluten can be. The first asked me if it was a bad thing to add “vital wheat gluten” to whole wheat [...]

The Comparison: The Specific Carbohydrate Diet (SCD), GAPS Diet (Gut & Psychology Syndrome), and The Maker’s Diet

October 27th, 2010 · 41 Comments · Big Changes, Food for Thought, Natural Health, Science of Nutrition, Special Situations

Pin ItReady for an epic post? Over the last month or so as the adults in the family went grain-free to combat some symptoms of Crohn’s Disease (Inflammatory Bowel Disease or IBD) in my husband, I’ve mentioned in passing a couple gut-healing diets. Although we didn’t actually go on any of them officially, I gleaned [...]

FAQs on the Grain-Free Lifestyle

October 5th, 2010 · 35 Comments · Big Changes

Pin It“So…what do you eat? Just meat and vegetables?” my in-laws asked – again – at dinner the other night. They took us out to celebrate my husband’s new job, and we chose a steakhouse, where the only things we had to omit were the croutons on the salad and the bread, which was warm, [...]

The Test Your Grains Challenge Survey is Here!

September 30th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Call to Action, Science of Nutrition

Pin ItHow are you digesting? On our no-grains diet, we’ve definitely noticed some changes at the Kimball house, all for the positive. Remember that the Test Your Grains Challenge is not to meant to cut all grains out of your diet. It’s simply asking you to eat all your grains the same way for 7-10 [...]