What Are The Side Effects Of A Grain Free Diet?

 
10-Mar-2011 by raj pallavi

You have been diagnosed with gluten intolerance and you frequently suffer from bouts of stomach disorders, your doctors recommends you a high grain free diet, assuring you leading healthy lifestyle in days to follow. After couple of weeks following the grain free diet, you are stuck with other types of complications and this makes you flummoxed about the type of diet you are consuming. What shall you do recourse back to grainy diet that will finally save you?

 

 

After all it is protein, Vitamins, fats, carbohydrates which grain diet are made of, they are essential for our body`s metabolism. There are many if not lot of the side effects of grain free diet, which may put you at major risk of heart disease, constipation and obesity. Let’s find out the side effects of grain free diet.

 

You are at high stake of Nutrient Deficiency

 

If you are high on grain free diet which comprise more of fruits, boiled and bland vegetables, nuts, or say dairy products, at one phase of your life, they are beneficial but not for longer duration of time. Grain free diet will not provide you with enough vitamins and fats, thus making you suffer from protein and vitamin deficient. Many important and vital processes in our body is done in presence of vitamins, when there is complete absence of plant derived vitamins and proteins, you are likely to suffer from several ailments at one go.

 

You become a lean meat!

 

Yes, that is the worst part. Being for long on a high grain free diet, will ultimately debilitate you and take toll on your immune functioning at the same time. You notice rapid weight loss and lose every ounce of stamina to carry out daily workouts. Your body needs daily dose of cereals to make you active all day long; depriving it with plant based nutrients will cost you to extreme.

 

High risk of Heart Maladies

 

Cereal based diet includes oats, wheat, which are on the top of most healthy foods list. Oats are high on fiber and iron. Cereals contain rich amount of Linoleum acids, and Omega-3 fatty acids. These ingredients are essential to keeping a healthy pumping heart. Going on grain free diet will put you at risk of heart diseases in short stretch of time.

 

Fear of Anemia

 

Cereals have iron running in their cells and iron is necessary for our red blood cells. It is simple, if you don’t take grains, you don’t take iron and you become anemic, which is preamble to many future ailments.

 

You are struck with Constipation

 

Cereals have high fiber content. They are the one helping you keep your intestine clean. Some people have been shown to suffer constipation if they take lot of fruits and stay away from grainy, starchy, gluten loaded diet. No other diet other than cereals is known to contain more of fiber to stuff you. Also, high fiber diet will never raise your cholesterol level.

 

Now that the serious side effects of a grain free diet are known to you, it would be appreciative step to move in the direction of changing your food habits from grain free to grain plenty diets!

 

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