Managing Diet - Managing Your Day

A couple of things. First, I have to say that cutting out - and mostly staying away from wheat 99% of the time has literally cured all of my digestive ills, and most of my aches and pains. According to Food Allergy Solutions (http://www.foodallergysolutions.com/food-allergy-news0403.html) allergies have been linked to chronic inflammation of joints and hence, chronic arthritis.

Also if you take NSAIDS or even aspirin to treate your conditions, you actually can do damage of the long term. First, you can increase your blood pressure from NSAIDS. See the studies in the link above. Second you can cause intestinal damage...also in the link above. At the bottom of the article is a whole host of studies relating arthritis to chronic inflammation.

As a former chronic user of Ibuprofin - I am thanking goodness that I discovered this wheat allergy. My god. I hate to admit it but I was taking anywhere from 4 to 10 NSAIDS a day thinking - oh, there is no harm in this. Well...that was over the last 15 years. That's kind of frightening. But, I'll move on and not think about it. It does more harm to worry than good. Never trouble trouble till trouble troubles you - the old adage.

Suffice it to say that if you have a food allergy or food sensitivity, staying away from that food will do alot more good over the long term than you may realize. The effects of not having to deal with pain and inflammation, every day, are amazing. Talk about feeling good!!