Gluten free
"Gluten-free diet" has become a hot topic in Japan as a diet practiced by professional tennis player Novak Djokovic. Gluten is an ingredient made by adding water to flour and kneading it. I heard that eating flour makes me feel tired and gains weight, so I try to avoid flour as much as possible.
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| Usually, it takes a lot of labor, fertilizers and pesticides to make flour. Is it natural? |
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| After eating a dish that uses flour, I get heavier. Does that mean I'm full or bad for digestion? |
Use rice instead of flour
Originally I love cooking with flour. Pizza, spaghetti, pies, etc. But if you use a blender to grind the rice into small pieces, you can use it like flour.
Ingenuity that does not use eggs and flour
I often make okonomiyaki with rice flour. Okonomiyaki is usually made by dissolving chopped vegetables, eggs, and flour in water and baking. But I don't use eggs for the okonomiyaki I make. Add salt when making rice flour from rice in a blender. Salt has a hardening effect. Then mix the kudzu powder. Kudzu powder is also a component of traditional cold remedies. I like cheese, so I put cheese on it and eat it with melted cheese. Rice is usually cooked and eaten, but if it is made into rice flour, it becomes like wheat flour, so it is very useful for gluten-free meals.
Gluten-free diet for my proper weight
What made me happy about continuing my gluten-free diet was that I was able to maintain my proper weight. Thanks to that, I don't have to think about weight management these days.
What if you want to eat pasta once in a while?
Last week, I ate Italian food for the first time in a long time. It's my favorite Italian restaurant. It was delicious, but I was so heavy that I had a hard time walking after eating. After about a week, I returned to my original condition. Still, I wanted to eat delicious Italian food. So, in order to maximize the happiness of my life, I decided to use rice as a basis and impose a rule on myself that I could eat flour several times a month. It's best to do everything in moderation.
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| I sometimes want to eat delicious Italian food. Moderately OK. |
There are various kinds of rice
Actually, there are various types of rice. I learned that light varieties of rice for natural farming are good. The Japanese began to prefer chewy rice after the war. And chewy rice requires fertilizer. It interferes with the natural activity of soil microorganisms. That's why I get light varieties of rice sent directly from the farmers. Such farmers have a deep understanding of the providence of nature. There are few such farmers, but I want them to continue. Flour may be good for the body if it is an old variety.
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| The types of rice are roughly divided into light type and chewy type. |
Conclusion
A gluten-free diet is easier to achieve with rice. I realized that a gluten-free diet is certainly good for your health. Moreover, it helps to maintain a proper weight. But I eat delicious Italian food several times a month. This is because you can't enjoy happiness unless you do it moderately. Older varieties of rice are better. Rice varieties that require a lot of fertilizer are unnatural.
