And we all don't wear devil horns sprouting out of our foreheads like you !
If you are going to blow it (and I cheerfully admit that after several years of success I do blow it once in a while, but I still won't touch wheat because I believe gluten is the biggest culprit after slowly, slowly wading thru all those lovely technical papers Evelyn likes to post the links to ) at least blow it on rice and/or beans or something like that, and keep the 'blowing it' down to a minimum of a few times a week, truthfully monitering your response.
A bad response is a good motivator.
I think it's okay to eat whatever you want as long as you are honest about how you feel afterwards. I think a lot of the mock horror, pathos, tragedy, and discord that can be found as a response to our occasional forays over to the Gluey Forums is from some people who at one point realized that they DID feel a connection between their diet (or some other health related habit, like drinking or smoking) and their arthritric syndrome symptoms, but could not discipline themselves to follow through on it because it is difficult. Indeed, no one else was supposed to notice or mention it either, it's the perpetual lurking Elephant in the Room.
Alas for a small minority of the human race, the Elephant is not only highly visible but we lack the imagination needed to make him go away and the sense not to mention this in public discussions. For Successful Elephant Control, herding pachyderms into the correct savannahs and rainforests, we must look to the management philosphies outside of our western culture, to those of the Far East.
There are two kinds of denial. The kind that works, in the present time frame, and makes people feel better, and the kind that does not work, but is done as penance, and makes people feel angry and deprived. Disease is, unfortunately, seen as a type of punishment in our western culture instead of just another state of being. We can choose to compare ourselves to others, and try to make ourselves feel deprived, or we can go on happily trying to herd our Elephants into the gardens where they do the least damage. But the Elephants are not going away.
