Possible side effects of wheat
For those of you that have begun to remove grains from your diet, you may have become aware of the bloated and/or lethargic feeling you get if you now consume grains (bread, pasta, etc). The stricter you are at removing these items, and the longer you go without them, the greater the effects you’ll experience when you re-introduce them into your body. Personally, I have experienced a “hang-over” type feeling the day after consuming an average portion of pasta. Check out The Heart Scan Blog, it’s an informative blog written by a cardiologist. In this post, he writes about the effects he experienced when he re-introduced wheat in his diet while attempting to see if ancient wheat affects the blood sugar the same way modern wheat does. I find his account interesting because although his experience is severe, these are all symptoms everyone likely feels from time to time. I believe that if we pay much closer attention to what we eat and how we feel afterwards (not just bloated and/or tired), we may learn a lot about which types of foods are good for our body, and which ones are not.
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Monday’s WOD:
As many rounds in 15 minutes:
5 Thrusters (135#/85#)
10 Toes to Bar
70m Run
