I think the best thing about acknowledging gluten-free celebrities, is the attention and public interest they can bring to an important subject. Particularly when there is much to be learned about that ailment.
Gluten-Free Celebrities
Can you guess which gluten-free athlete from Serbia learned of his condition from his nutritionist right before winning 2 major events in his field? I will give you a hint: the sport is tennis. The answer can be found in this article written by Tom Perrota in the Wall Street Journal.
Gluten-Free Celebrities“How did Novak Djokovic conquer the tennis world? Maybe the answer is as simple as this: Since last year, he’s swearing off pasta, pizza, beer, French bread, Corn Flakes, pretzels, empanadas, Mallomars and Twizzlers—anything with gluten. Djokovic’s nutritionist discovered that Djokovic is allergic to the protein, which is found in common flours. Djokovic banished it from his diet and lost a few pounds. He says he now feels much better on court. A gluten-free diet can have implications far beyond the physical, especially in tennis, which taxes the mind like few other sports. The season is 11 months long, matches are grueling and can last for hours, and the slightest dip in a player’s confidence can derail months of hard work. There’s never anyone else to blame for a match gone awry. “It’s mostly mental energy you’re talking about, not energy supplied to muscle tissues,” said David Levitsky, a professor of nutrition and psychology at Cornell University, when asked about the effects of giving up gluten if one has an allergy. (An allergy differs from celiac disease, whose sufferers, Levitsky said, can incur far-reaching health effects from eating gluten, including the inability to absorb nutrients.)…” Original Story Here |
So Novak Djokovic is one of many gluten-free celebrities that are making a difference today. The correlation between his newly found winning streak being caused by his gluten sensitivity diagnosis cannot fully be established, but we can say that his diagnosis did bring some much needed attention to the gluten-free lifestyle.
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