027: How Long will You Live and What's the Best Gluten Free Breadcrumb Alternative?

September 2023

Sep 11, 2023

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6 Delicious Gluten Free Breadcrumb Alternatives and How to Use Them

Cheesy chicken parmesan, juicy breaded fish filet, your mom's classic Shake 'n' Bake Porkchops. Is your mouth watering yet?

A lot of recipes call for breadcrumbs, don’t they? And with good reason. Breadcrumbs give you that beautiful, crispy coating that crunches when you bite into it releasing the juiciness below.

But you’re gluten free. Those crispy panko crumbs are just not an option. What do you do?

Go here to learn about gluten free breadcrumb alternatives.

Featured Recipe

Gluten Free Meatloaf Recipe: The Ultimate Weeknight Comfort Food

Do you think if someone is really good at something they should just have the job?

That's what I told my husband as I was dishing out my second helping of his mouthwatering homestyle gluten-free meatloaf. I'm the chef in the family but I haven't made meatloaf since. (There's a story about laundry but that's for another day)

Well I picked his brain and dragged the recipe out of him so I could share it with you.

Go here for Hubby’s Gluten Free Homestyle Meatloaf recipe.

Let me know how you like it in the FB Group.

News From the Scientific Community

Why It's Important to Look After Your Heart if You Have Celiac Disease

“I’m not doing this for another 30 years” Hubby laughed. We were sitting across the desk from our financial planner going over the forecast to get us to age 95 and keep us out of the poor house. As Martin Sheen’s character said in the movie Wall Street, “Money’s only something you need in case you don’t die tomorrow”. It’s tough to know how long the money needs to last.

Anyway, this post isn’t about money, it’s about your health and keeping you alive long enough to spend it. “Who knows what tomorrow brings, in a world few hearts survive.” Those song lyrics take on a whole new meaning.

In the June issue of NGF Digest I talked about exercise and the 3 reasons why it’s an especially important for you and I managing our celiac disease.

Here’s a fourth reason; heart health.

A brand new study out of the U.K. has linked celiac disease and increased cardiovascular risk.

The study, published in January 2023 in the British medical journal BMJ Medicine looked at the number of cardiac events in a group of 267,095 adults of which 2083 had celiac disease. They found that even though the subjects with celiac disease had better cardiovascular risk scores, were less likely to smoke, had lower BMI and blood pressure, they were still more likely than the non-celiac subjects to develop cardiovascular disease.

What does this mean for us? We need to take care of our hearts and do everything we can to bring the risk down.

Exercise regularly for gut and heart health
Keep the weight under control
Eat a heart healthy gluten free diet. The Mediterranean diet has some good science behind it when it comes to both heart and gut health.
Don’t smoke
Keep strong connections with family and friends.

The last one is especially important, yet those social connections often have food at the center, and that is challenging for those of us with celiac disease.

Science shows us that people with strong social connections tend to live longer. They have lower incidence of heart attack and recover faster if they do have one. So don’t skip the party even though you may not be able to eat everything on offer.

For tips on how to handle holidays and family gatherings go here.

What I’m Reading

I took a break from food and health related reading this summer and turned to fiction and politics instead. I read:

The Store by James Patterson. Very good, a little scary and all too real.

The 1867 Project - Why Canada Should Be Cherished and Not Cancelled by Mike Milke. Also very good. Nice to have a balanced analysis of Canadian history.

Now I’m back to business and finishing off Outlive, The Science and Art of Longevity by Peter Attia. Hopefully by the next edition of NGF Digest I’ll have a review for you.

That’s All For This Month

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Patty

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