health-and-nutrition-matters

Pork in the Toothpaste? A Brief Conversation.

Sat, 16 May 2026 19:25:16 +0100

After decades upon decades of searching for ways to be in the clear on toothpaste that does not have pork products, extremely incremental progress has been made.
Of course there may be a hope among some, that there is no pork, or pork related concerns, in the majority of everyday toothpaste you can get from the supermarket.

Some people want a 'halal' standard for toothpaste. Others may want kosher, some might want vegetarian, some want nothing harm or forbidden, and so on.

Individuals from parts of the world where everything in the society is halal, might come upon a situation where they have to travel to a place where it (halal omnipresence) is not necessarily the case, and might inadvertently assess that it is an absurdity that an item like toothpaste would have pork concerns. This is similar to ordering fried chicken or fries at a fast food restaurant, the two items in originally in themselves are not pork, but if they are fried in a tub of pork grease then the consumer could very well wind up swallowing amounts of pork. Reference scenarios of 'just arrived in America last week'. It is rare today that big fast food chains even use pork to fry their food in, but some ma and pa restaurants further outside the city, might, and might not even know what you're talking about about when you inquire into cooking oil and methods.

Some people have been told if a consumable product is kosher, then it is permissible to the Muslim standard or even halal. Unfortunately, when it comes to toothpaste, it might not be that easy.

The kosher standard, depending on who set their standard for the kosher label, might not in all instances automatically equivocate to halal and pork free.

Hence, a tube of toothpaste or it's box with a symbol of U, Parve, K, Kosher, etc., might not ring out the toothpaste has met Muslim standard for permissible use. It might though provide some guideposts.

At the end of the day, if you are looking for toothpaste without pork or pork (pig) by-products, then it is might be advisable to look for that quality and make sure it is present.

Here is one of the caveats to Kosher toothpaste or determined to be Kosher, not necessarily a fact that the toothpaste has no pork:
According to some sources, because toothpaste is not intended on being swallowed in the main, there is some laxity on what ingredients are in the toothpaste, compared to treated in the same way as food that would be swallowed, in order for it to be Kosher.

Resultantly, it might be possible there are some aspects of the toothpaste that the Muslim standard would not use.

Briefly, Muslim does not only not eat pork, or drink products with pork products in it, there is also the refrainment from being in bodily contact with pork, at least the best you can. Extreme medical situations, that sort of thing might be granted exceptions. What is being discussed here are items like toothpaste, which can come in contact with the inside of the mouth, a level of risk is run that particulates of the toothpaste can eventually be swallowed, the effervescence, aura, exudation of the toothpaste is in your mouth and along those lines; further if has been in contact with areas of the body where it can be soaked in, so although it might not get swallowed, it still makes its way inside the body.
Using soap with pork products, lotion, body oils, shampoo, and other consumables can have similar concerns. Clothes have matters as well.

For a while, certain ingredients to food, perhaps like sorbitol for instance, were determined not to meet the kosher standard because of certain processes that went on the factory. Some kinds of processes, such as chemical, might use pork products to arrive at the process that developed the food, even though the food might not have had pork in its original ingredients.
Sharing of the air, of pork, can have different ways that happens.

Ever wonder why it seems like a list of ingredients in a food, such as pastry, does not make the Kosher standard, nor Halal standard, but the ingredients show up in toothpaste, but the toothpaste might be said to be Kosher? Explained here might be some of the reasons. There might be a least of ingredients in toothpaste to be careful about when seeking halal or no pork level.

In today's times, few are going to pull out a science book and spend 10 years researching each and every ingredient of toothpaste. Literacy levels might also be a factor, English as a second language and so forth.

Easiest route, when in doubt, ask an authority on this matter, do research, read, and proceed carefully. Manufacturing processes change all the time.

Pros and Cons of Different Categories of Water. Reverse Osmosis, Normal, Spring, etc. Comparisons.

Thu, 23 Jan 2025 22:57:52 +0100

For across the board health and safety reasons, when reverse osmosis water is being sold, for example, fill up as much as the bottle will hold, on a discount, all you can drink, even if it is a 20 gallon container, there needs to be clear and conspicuous signage of what type of water it is, especially reverse osmosis water, with warnings about health; the same for whether it is desalinated, and other terms. A placard in the background, or sticker on the machine, something to let people know, especially younger folks.

There are several reasons why.
There have been experiences where store customers are told there is discounted water for sale at the machine, all you have to do is bring in your water bottles. They go to the machine, fill up, and did not realize that they had just marched off with reverse osmosis water. There might have been a sign there, but it was hard to see, or just a fancy term for water so that it sold well. In sum, customers did not know what they were really getting into.

On the subject of consuming 'too much' reverse osmosis water.
Although advertised as being healthy in numerous aspects, which it may very well be, reverse osmosis water has effects; if those effects go too far, then it could become dangerous.
Another factor to take into consideration is that different people have different needs, at different times. To illustrate, use the 300 pound male athlete who is at the top of physical conditioning at age 32, and compare it to his 5 year old son, who may weigh only 30 or so pounds. The son has his athletic career underway, involved in kiddie sport league activities and so forth, and takes up after dad. A cup (8 oz.) of reverse osmosis water drunk by dad once every 3 days might appear as about normal. The son taking up after dad on that might need to be monitored, but it might not be nightmarish compared to a more extreme scenario. What if dad decides to drink an entire gallon in a day, and repeat that every 2 days for 2 weeks?; for a 5 or even 15 year old to try that, especially with no prior training, might be seriously pushing the threshold of certain kinds of dangers.

What are those dangers?, if reverse osmosis water in itself is supposedly a 'good' substance.
It may start with a general rule of too much of just about anything can be dangerous. Moderation is often the beacon when gauging how much to consume something. Identifying where the moderation needle on the gage is, is one of the purposes of this write-up. Identifying the healthy balance. It might help to provide pros, cons, and different kinds of effects of the different kinds of water.

It is understood that mixing different kinds of water can get more complicated. for now, in this ongoing project, where more may be added when found, just providing pieces of information from around resources like the Internet and health books is a starting point.

A first question some might ask is, isn't all water just water, it's all the same?
That might be what it seems. When you look at clear water in bottle, in an untrained eye quickly browsing through a store or the drink aisle, most water bottles apper to have a pretty much clear and colorless liquid. Some folks might go off of instincts and other judgment criteria when selecting a drink, such as does it look good, or look healthy, how does it compare to other options and drinks in the store selection. Some folks might be new to English, and grab what they can afford after a long work day. Did they know that down in the fine print, reverse osmosis water was principally what they were drinking?, what are they getting into?, what makes reverse osmosis reverse osmosis?, the impacts, potential effects, and list of almost boundless theoretical reflections and questions on the topic.

Briefly, they are not quite exactly the same, the different kinds of water, in the context.

Have you ever had reverse osmosis water repeatedly, for instance you have 50 gallons of it stored in the house, used for drinking, cooking, bathing, and everything else, and you have not had any other kind of water. A scene like that could happen while on vacation for a week. It might seem like the hot on track move to invest in huge amounts of reverse osmosis water instead of using tap water to drink, and go on your meditation retreat, but, in actuality, there could be some potential drawbacks if one takes in too much without the guidance to balance.

When you consumed mainly reverse osmosis water, such as on a getaway, did you experience a sensation like someone struck you in the back of the head with a 2 by 4 with a cloth wrapped around it, and then you were left to freeze for a few hours, your physical brain inside your skull was left hurting? That's an extreme, but anywhere along that trajectory, very slight to severer pain. Have you ever felt the sensation of barely enough energy to walk from one side of the room to the next, but maybe you still had the energy?
Please check into some of the information being compiled here.

Eventually, a comparative chart will be put here, or is at least planned. For now, here are a few pieces of information and resources from around the web:

https://www.drinkmorewater.com/blog/types-of-water/
Types of Water
Discusses tap, spring, distilled, purified, reverse osmosis, deionization

https://www.freshpure.com/should-i-drink-alkaline-reverse-osmosis-or-deionized-water/

Should I Drink Alkaline, Reverse Osmosis, or Deionized Water?

Feb 21, 2019

Provides mostly pros of different types of water

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10732328/
The Role of Low Mineral Water Consumption in Reducing the Mineral Density of Bones and Teeth: A Narrative Review
2023 Nov 20

'Abstract

Low mineral water has gained increasing attention due to its potential health implications concerning bone mineral density (BMD) and dental health. Reverse osmosis (RO) systems to purify water are in use extensively, and these systems, in addition to removing impurities from water, also remove 92-99% of beneficial minerals like calcium, lead, fluoride, magnesium, and iron. These minerals are essential for maintaining optimal mineral density of teeth and bones, thereby preserving bone and teeth health. Most of these mineral components are physically larger than water molecules and are trapped by the semi-permeable membrane of RO filters when drinking water is filtered through it. The resultant water is of very poor mineral content, and studies have shown that this water, when consumed, can absorb minerals from the body and eliminate the same through urine. The combined synergistic effect of consumption of low mineral water along with minerals being excreted has been shown to cause demineralization of bones and teeth, increasing the risk of osteoporosis and dental caries. This review tries to address the ill effects of consuming low mineral water along with preventive strategies to overcome its much-concealed adverse effects.'

Biggest Subject of the Day: How Can I Defeat Coronavirus Through Nutrition?

Tue, 17 Nov 2020 17:28:54 +0100

Coronavirus and its accomplice COVID-19, is one of the most dangerous games that are being played. Many of us that know effective ways to help, are stuck between a rock and hard place, give up the knowledge and have it undermined, or stay silent and watch as it claims more victims.
In fighting an elusive force, in this case a disease, it is hard to combat because it is hard to see, among foremost considerations might be, no matter how elusive the disease, and no matter what all the conspiracy theories are out there that keep propagating the disease, at some point there is an above-all victory zone. In analogy, during a flood, there might be a mountain peak one can rest on that the waters never reach.
In attaining a safe zone from coronavirus, the dynamics are different than flood and dry land, of what the normal mode is versus what is being tackled in microscopic virus. This could mean, the above-all safe zone is comprised of several zones depending on the time of day, and type of activity one is engaged in.
That brings us to safe sub-zones. Here are some of the major ones:

Keep clean and virus potential free. It could start from the place of awakening in the morning. Clean bed, clean sheets and blankets, if a pillow and other items on the bed, pillow cases, everything there clean. Of course before laying in the bed, make sure you are clean, as in body. Nutrition one can take to help disinfect the interior of the body, like hot green tea, even coffee in moderate amounts, a few ounces of yogurt, fresh water, can all help fizzle down germs ingested through the day. When the body sleeps, breathing patterns and other mechanisms do their work, and hopefully germs and air that is bad for your health get expelled from the bodily system. When you are expelling air when asleep, having the cleanest air come out of you and around you, germ minimized, is plausibly best.

When awakening, and it is the juncture for selection for food and drink, make certain that you drink and eat out of clean cups, bowls, and use clean utensils. The day before's coffee cup that has a stinch to it, that might be a no; it is not recommended to just throw an ounce of tap water on it under the sink, and say good enough, then pour fresh juice in the same cup. In the fight against coronavirus, it almost a conflict of interest and wasted effort.

In what to eat in the morning, the unanimous recommendations are focus on fruit, vitamin D, and health food, as opposed to a cheap get-by, like a box of cereal for a buck made of sugar and a few chemicals, designed to fill up space in the stomach. When eating fruits, not so much it destroys your balance, which can occur by eating too much fruit for days ongoing, without solid foods.

The rest of the meals of the day is almost obvious, keeping the same rules; bump up the quality and the cleanliness respective whatever room there is to do. For instance, if you usually eat sandwiches for lunch using the cheapest breads available, old, stale, instead go with fresher, more nutrient packed bread. A few feet outside the office for convenience, with old ashtrays around, the figurative few extra steps may be to take a few more steps further out to where there is some cleaner air while you eat.

Ways That Could Help Protect You From Listeriosis

Thu, 09 Nov 2023 01:08:25 +0100

One of the first steps in getting a command on what it takes to protect yourself and those under your authority, such as childhood aged kids and family, is to get a command on identifying what it is that you are trying to protect yourself from.

Plausibly on target when dealing with Listeriosis.

Let us begin with providing a general idea of what Listeriosis is, and enough of a background about it, that it can be put in an easy to understand everyday framework.

Listeriosis has been around as a disease that has been identified by scientists for almost a century now.

This implies that Listeriosis is 'nothing new'.

Listeriosis is named in correlation to the scientist Joseph Lister. As it can be noted the first part of Listeriosis begins with Lister. Somewhere in the stages between Lister and Listeriosis, is that the disease that is caught after being infected by the the bacteria named Listeria, for the most part.

The disease named Listeriosis, is a bacterial infection.

In consideration that the disease has been known about for a while, the disease can be said has been named some time after its actual discovery. Without going too deep into the naming of it all, popular acceptance of what is being dealt with is a bacteria known as Listeria monocytogenes.

More on gaining a command of this bacteria; most know that mono usually refers to one, and cyto refers to cell.

Listeria monocytogenes, which might be found written as solely monocytogenes, or L monocytogenes, is a bacteria that when viewed under a microscope looks capsule shaped. It is a gram positive bacteria, which means that under the microscope when stained under the referent science analysis turns purple.

Listeria monocytogens is often described as a pathogen.

Combining the gram-positive quality, with other aspects, which could be summarized by saying it is harder to kill-off the bacteria, the bacteria is comparatively more lethal than other bacteria especially when it comes to being ingested by humans.

In the early stages of the process of from where the bacteria comes from to where it ultimately gets to respective humans, as in, in your food, then in your stomach, then moving on there, the bacteria Listeria monocytogens may be found in soil, and water, among other mundane places where bacteria can be expected to lurk.

Listeria monocytogens entering your bloodstream is when it starts to get most dangerous to your health.

At this juncture, moving on to some practical things to do and not do to help prevent being infected by the bacteria, Listeria monocytogens, or at least minimize being affected by it.

Once again, the disease, Listeriosis, is largely caused by the bacteria Listeria monocytogens.

Chief step of course is to prevent contact and ingestion with the bacteria Listeria monocytogens.

In situations where there is the prospect of the bacteria Listeria monocytogens being on your food you are about to eat, given there might be occasions you might not know if it is or is not prospect, there are certain basic steps recommended to take.

Make sure the food is clean and cleaned.

Make sure the methods use to clean the food are clean as well. For example, washing the food off; there is no point in washing off food with dirty, contaminated water.

When using heat to purify a food substance from bacteria, go beyond just a certain temperature, or certain minimal time set in a cookbook to prepare a meal; cook the food hot enough and long enough, subjecting it to certain factors, whether flames, heat, clean air, so forth, so that the food gets past the threshold of having the possibility of having the bacterium in it.

Simply refrigerating a food my not prevent your food from becoming conatiminated with Listeria bacteria; this bacteria can grow at low temperatures, cold and warm.

If you suspect you, spouse, kids, students in your class or field trip, tour group, and so forth, might be coming down with the disease Listeria monocytogens, or are in latent stages of showing symptoms, take them to a doctor without procrastination. Due to the 'toughness' against killing off the bacteria, getting professional or bona fide trained doctor and medical assistance can go further to making certain the disease does not become lethal after it gets into your bodily system.

It may not be recommended to wait until an entire month goes by to get medical attention or at least a visit to the doctor for accurate diagnosis.

Know that there are numerous different subspecies of Listeria monocytogens.

Keep a level head, and not let outward appearance such as skin tones consume you to the extent it causes chronic anger towards others; the totality could throw certain natural chemical balances, off balance, and the affect make its way to causing weaknesses of aspects of the body.

Listeria monocytogens, the bacteria, or bacterium for singular, is commonly found in:

Meat
Poultry
Raw fish, smoked fish
Raw milk
Seafood products
Soft cheeses, especially the kind to put on crackers and snacks
Dairy products
Raw vegetables
Raw fruit

How Listeria monocytogens gets transported:

Food, processed food, buying foods at a market, then cooking it to quickly, or eating a ready-to-eat snack in a construct like at an open market in a region where there is less sanitation than a major city in well developed areas.
Animals can transport Listeria monocytogens to crops
Quality levels of fertilizer that most that could afford otherwise would rather not use

In other words, if you are traveling to a village in a remote region of the world and they use animal waste for the fertilizer that the basket of vegetables that are for sale under a tent or from a vendor, take caution

Symptoms of Listeriosis:

Nausea
Diarrhea
From the shoulders up, sensations of unusual imbalances
Fever and flu symptoms
Muscles feel unusually sluggish and too tired to perform what they would normally do, fatigue
Muscle aches
Feelings of being affected by germs that cause illness

In conclusion for now, April 2018, sacrificing a slightly extra cost for safely prepared meat, a few extra minutes cooking, or at times offending a host, where one might have to just explain to the host the situation, might be precautionary steps to safeguard from Listeria monocytogens and the Listeriosis, until more is known.

The Problem of Using Halal, Haram, Kosher, Parve, to Mislead

Mon, 26 Mar 2018 22:49:47 +0100

In the United States today, referring to 2017, there are a number of ingredients commonly used in foods that might not be permissible for all food consumers to eat per their belief, religion, diet plan, or medical and health restrictions. Conundrums involving food ingredients with respect to what is and is not permissible exist in other countries as well.

In the effort to discern what foods are permissible and what foods are not, consumers with food restrictions often look to the ingredient label and markings on the food package.

There may be food ingredients in the list of ingredients on a food package not easily understood on the prima facie, and therefore, a consumer might turn to a website to help them figure out whether the food is restricted or not.

Many consumers that constantly undergo the food ingredient dilemma know exactly what is being talked about when it is said, it would help if a website that states a food or food ingredient is halal, haram, kosher, pareve, and so forth, would actually be accurate with their information, know completely what they are talking about, and have strong enough command of the language they are posting their information in, often English, to present their ideas without adding to confusion.

Not all the points about how to clear up the confusion about food ingredients is going to be attempted at in this one brief article, however, there are a few overarching concepts that the details can be filled in on.

First, situations when there is the reckless or overly careless use of terms such as halal and haram used, spoken, and or written loosely and not reflecting what they really mean, can be a perturbing problem. These terms, halal and haram, have meanings as they relate to the Quran. The actual meaning of these words, might not be what a slickster has in mind when using the words to do nothing more than try to sell a product or undermine the sale of a product.

There are many terms pertinent to food.

There are many 'Revealed Books'; well known of these today are Quran and Torah. Well known food label markings are 'halal' and 'kosher'.

There are knowledge and matters pertaining to food that might not be adhered to regularly by a larger share of food consumers and market; for example meats like goat, cow, certain fish, such as when to eat them, and when not to, which ones and what extent, or recommended intake of them.

Words like kosher, have a literal meaning. Sometimes words like kosher are sloppily used by mischievous swindlers, for instance, by someone on a verbal level to quickly market a food product and sell it, when it might not actually be kosher in the sense that a Rabbi conducted an investigation of a food facility and made a determination.

When a berries are picked from a tree, do you await the results of a website to determine whether or not there are any forbidden ingredients in it? There are applicabilities using this base concept to other food ingredient situations.

There are or have been websites that attempt to chart out a list of foods and ingredients and whether they are halal and haram.

There are circumstances when a food is forbidden to eat that has to do with what rituals of a belief system was performed over the food.

Circumstance might arise that are common sense as to whether the food is permissible to be consumed; for instance, a food might, take a package of cookies, have the word 'halal' written clearly on it, but the package was opened, and some of the cookies fell into an animal's lavatory on a farm by accident, and resultantly had visible particles of substances that are not clean on them, the cookies were put back into the package, and the open package was negligently left on the store shelf; - the food cannot be eaten because of the impurities that got on them due to the spilling accident, even though there is a 'halal' marking on the package.

Knowledge point: There is a difference between when something is not forbidden by the law in Islam, Quran, Hadeeth tradition, and on the other side, weakly constructed opinions that are in error.

For example, there are Hadeeth about vinegar including its benefits.

For someone who is not an authority to jump into the food permissibility authority ring, and move to a blasé assessment, and say something like the ingredient is haram without valid substantiation, is strongly cautioned against. Of course when consumers see a comment online that is not valid or not validated, then they might want to consider researching further.

In a day and age where those that follow the real Islam system of diet, insofar what is permissible, halal, haram, forbidden, and so forth, and have cut out so many prospects for food in the USA due to the possibility of forbidden ingredients, they can ill afford to cut out from the list of prospects foods that are permissible due to being mislead by someone's erroneous website content.

Some companies make an all out effort to develop foods that consumers that abide by halal, haram kosher, and so on, can eat, only to have their food on the list of foods these consumers cannot eat, by someone's book or webpage.

Large web platforms like Google, are electronic systems, and often might display a generalized definition or rule about food ingredients on the top of a webpage before you even finish typing a query in the permissibility context, drawing from information from a website that is popular, but, might not have the accuracy that you really need.

Knowledge point: Kosher and parve, often indicated by symbols like a 'k' or 'u', (and there are others,), does not automatically mean the food is 'halal'.

A 'k' or u' in the kosher or parve systems used by a Rabbi might help in determining whether a food has pork in ingredients in them though, whereat, pork is a food that is 'haram' in the Quran to eat.

Some ways to start getting it sorted out:

Know for certainty what the meanings of terms like halal, haram, kosher are.

A source to go by when following rules established and clearly presented in Quran, is Sura (transliterated as) Al Maida, the third ayat, [some refer to this as 'Chapter 5, verse 3']. The beginning is translated at an introductory level, no English 'commas' in Arabic source: 'Haram, basically meaning forbidden, are, the condition of dead and blood and meat of the pig...'. Arabic to English translations are currently abundant online; slight variations of translations might exist. The ayat [some translate as verse] continues on with other descriptions of what is haram, forbidden; mentioning, transliterated, al munkhanqatu... waalnateeyhata..., translated, the strangled... died through goring...

As far as a product made from 'just a few simple ingredients', such as flour and water, there are issues that could arise. When a product is cooked in the same pan, same grease, same oven, all at the same time, with a food or ingredient forbidden to eat, such as in the case of haram rules wherein pork is forbidden, this a far fetched scenario, yet it illustrates that even though flour fresh from a clean farm, and pure water in itself isolated might be permissible, when certain conditions exist, whether it meets the requirement of not being haram or not, knowing the state of the affecting factors, like do the cooks lump the pork and simple bread in the same pan, then label the food 'made of 2 simple ingredients' before setting out in food store shelves, can be needed to determine whether or not one that does not eat haram foods, can eat it. On the other hand, when at a bazaar, and an old lady has a bag of flour sitting out on a table, and bottled water, and you are able to witness her cook bread right then and there, continuing to trip on the food being okay to eat, asking dozens of people in the crowd for hours on end, is digressing into unnecessary silliness.

Situations with more complexity might require a cooperative effort to get through, for example, when a consumer called a food producing company about the ingredients of a food he or she saw in a large grocery store, and the company said 'we can't guarantee there is no pork in it', then sees the exact same food sitting in a 'Halal Market', upon inquiry, the manager of the market said they called the company and the same producer said the food had no pork whatsoever.

Know the facts about food ingredients you are researching, such as a simple bread is made of flour and water, and the ingredients are flour and water, most know what four and water is; 2 plus 2, most know the answer is not 3 or 5; most cars that have tires are used to drive on roads, if a tire popped while driving, the vehicle was probably not driving on water like a boat. This can lead to illustrating that compounds like calcium, magnesium, zinc, and a long list of ingredients, have their own innate qualities as to what they are; this a stepping stone.

There is the Seal of Prophets, who knows what the Torah is and who Prophet Musa/Moses is; this is in reference to food prohibitions that might be listed in what is said to be presented as modern day translations of the Torah into English.

This posting might be revised and added on to.

Milk Products in Balance

Mon, 26 Mar 2018 22:51:29 +0100

Originally published April 13, 2017

Is slashing all dairy products, cheese, yogurt, any whitish colored product to include pudding, with ice cream heading up the list, really the best thing for your nutritional health? The answer that almost always if not 100% of the time, saving for special doctor prescriptions, is moderation of the food stuff available for consumption is a key to best health. Many dairy treats often taste good, ice cream popsicle, sherbet with milk and so forth, and when it is made clearer that too much of these dairy products can clog arteries, then some might feel that if they do a 180 degree turn-around and totally abstain from these products, they have achieved a great height of turning from their baser selves and greed desires, and they will have this wonderful blood circulation pinnacle, and might top it off with ginko biloba, -- brain is circulating at peak performance, now test taking time is cut in half--. It does not quite work that way. Dairy products have many good benefits, some which are important to your health.
-More soon

Gluten Free Night Not Necessarily Be the Best Course of Diet, if Avoidable

Sat, 22 Apr 2017 20:38:52 +0100

Originally published April 13, 2017

-more to be added soon, reference recent article in popular newspaper in India
-thrust: just as diary products in itself are not 'bad' foods, diary free foods is a choice, not that foods that are not 'diary free' are not good, analog pervades, gluten free might be prescribed by a doctor, or for a time, however, leaving out natural fruits and nutrition might result in losing out on a needed well-rounded diet