Why I’m a big advocate of a dairy-free diet\u00a0<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\nGot milk?<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Last year, during my initial phase of going gluten free I reflected not only on my wheat consumption but also on my diet in general. I figured that I was consuming a lot more dairy here in Istanbul than I used to do back in Berlin. Since moving here I had yoghurt for breakfast every single morning, drank many, many caf\u00e9 lattes and ate lots of salads topped with loads of feta cheese. Everybody knows, too much of anything is never good, so I felt the urge to put a halt on this. In the back of my head I developed this thought that just maybe I could hit two birds with one stone: Going gluten and dairy free at the same time. I mean, why not? I was about to change my diet completely anyway, right?<\/p>\n
Some of you might break out in hysterical laughter right now and I can\u2019t even blame you.
\nLittle did I now, how time consuming and sometimes frustrating it would be to go gluten free. This process once again put all my previously acquired eating habits into question (see Unlearning snacking). Cutting out dairy as well was just as naive as believing in sticking to one\u2019s New Year\u2019s resolution.<\/p>\n
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Als es letztes Jahr galt eine Entscheidung zu treffen, ob ich das Experiment gluten-frei wagen soll, hab ich nicht nur meinen bisherigen Weizenkonsum n\u00e4her unter die Lupe genommen, sondern meine Essgepflogenheiten allgemein. Getreu dem Motto, wenn man schon mal dabei ist. Schnell fiel auf, dass ich seit meinem Umzug von Berlin nach Istanbul deutlich mehr Milchprodukte a\u00df als bisher. Zum Fr\u00fchst\u00fcck gab es fast immer eine gro\u00dfe Schale Joghurt mit Banane und M\u00fcsli, die viele, neugewonnene Freizeit wurde mit zahlreichen Cafe Latte gef\u00fcllt und auch unsere hausgemachten Salate wurde gro\u00dfz\u00fcgig mit Feta garniert, oder besser gesagt, aufgef\u00fcllt. Von den vielen anderen auf Joghurt basierenden t\u00fcrkischen K\u00f6stlichkeiten mal ganz zu schweigen. So hab ich mir das gute alte Sprichwort \u201ealles ist gesund, solange es nur in Ma\u00dfen daher kommt\u201c einmal zu Herzen genommen und kam nicht um den Gedanken herum, dem \u00dcberkonsum an Milchprodukten einen Riegel vorzuschieben zu m\u00fcssen. Warum also nicht einfach zwei Fliegen mit einer Klappe schlagen? Wenn ich sowieso schon dabei war meine Ern\u00e4hrung komplett auf den Kopf zu stellen, kann ich doch gleich auch noch mit den Milchprodukten abrechnen. Oder nicht?<\/p>\n
Manch einer von euch mag bei so einer Aussage in hysterisches Gel\u00e4chter ausbrechen, und ich kann es euch nicht einmal ver\u00fcbeln. Wie naiv war ich doch, beim formulieren dieses Gedankens. H\u00e4tte ich mir nicht denken k\u00f6nnen, wie frustrierend und zeitaufwendig die Umstellung auf eine gluten-freie Ern\u00e4hrung tats\u00e4chlich sein w\u00fcrde? Immerhin wurde hier erneut jede einzelne meiner lang antrainierten Essgewohnheiten auf die Probe gestellt (siehe Das Naschen verlernen). Im Galopp auch noch mal eben s\u00e4mtliche Milchprodukte \u00fcber Board werfen zu wollen, war genau so eine naive Vorstellung wie die, das man dieses Jahr ganz bestimmt an seinen Vors\u00e4tzen f\u00fcr das neue Jahr festhalten wird.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1077,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1],"tags":[13,28,29,32,36,38,45,63,67,68,74,81,285,118],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fructopia.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fructopia.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fructopia.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fructopia.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fructopia.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fructopia.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fructopia.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fructopia.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fructopia.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fructopia.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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Last year, during my initial phase of going gluten free I reflected not only on my wheat consumption but also on my diet in general. I figured that I was consuming a lot more dairy here in Istanbul than I used to do back in Berlin. Since moving here I had yoghurt for breakfast every single morning, drank many, many caf\u00e9 lattes and ate lots of salads topped with loads of feta cheese. Everybody knows, too much of anything is never good, so I felt the urge to put a halt on this. In the back of my head I developed this thought that just maybe I could hit two birds with one stone: Going gluten and dairy free at the same time. I mean, why not? I was about to change my diet completely anyway, right?<\/p>\n![\"Going](\"https:\/\/fructopia.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/gluten-frei-auswirkung-milchprodukte-e1414284670268-1024x768.jpg\")
The great thing is, even though I felt defeated in the beginning, everything falls into place eventually. A few months into my gluten-free diet I started to reduce my dairy intake without any intention to do so at all. I kind of lost my appetite for all things “cow” along the way. I don\u2019t know what happened but I’m not that fond of the taste of cow’s milk and cow’s cheese anymore. Like I said, I used to drink my coffee drowned in milk, but now even a cappuccino leaves a bad aftertaste for hours and makes my mind foggy. From now on, coffee has to be pitch black instead. Yoghurt (sometimes from cow’, but more often from buffalo\u2019s or goat\u2019s milk) is still on my \u201conce in a while\u201d-list, just like kefir or a slice of obligatory feta at our frequent Raki Sofras\u0131\u2019s (a dinner with many friends stretched over a few hours). Also, I would never say no to a platter full of French cheese (honestly, who would?). Then again, that\u2019s a rare find in Istanbul anyway. But overall I eat way less dairy than I used to. I don’t know if this is connected to going gluten free in some way, I haven’t found anything related online yet, or if my body is just able to better tell what is right for me since I cancelled the wheat stuff out of my diet.<\/p>\n