I'm the woman behind Gluten Free Healthy Woman.

My name is Gwendolyn Kelly. I live in Louisville, Ky. I believe I need to be gluten free to be healthy. Gluten Free Healthy Woman dot com explores and explains why. You can call me Gluten-Free Gwen.

I want to be a healthy woman.

More accurately, I should say I'm working to be a healthier woman. My body is highly functional as it is right now.

I can't run a marathon but I have walked one. I'm 45. My daughter is 21. My blood pressure is normal. I'm overweight like too large of a percentage of the American population. I wear a size 14 sometimes 12s. Walking is one of my favorite pastimes. I have fibroids. I won't submit to a hysterectomy. I'm anemic. I wake up every morning ready, willing, and able to get out of bed and take care of myself.

I believe that a hefty portion of my weight problems have to do with the foods I eat. Not as in, I eat a lot of the wrong foods, but more along the lines of, my body doesn't digest the foods I do eat because the food acts as a poison in my body.

Why is this?

Before I answer that let me confess that yes I sometimes eat food that's not strictly for the nourishment of my body. I love and enjoy food.

Virginia Woolf has been quoted as saying, One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well." I believe that's true.

Some Answers For Healthy Women

So why does my body react to some food as if it were poison? Overprocessing, industrialization, genetic modifications, incompatibility, toxic overload. Why can't more food be simple and pure like Lara Bars. I believe many of the food conspiracy theories have merit. I write fiction also so sometimes I believe them a bit too readily. But that's probably balanced by the years I've spent believing, without questioning, the ads from food manufacturers. Anyway, I am a curious woman striving to be a Gluten Free Healthy Woman. I am looking for like-minded women to share questions, knowledge, tips, advice, and stories with. This website is one place where I will facilitate that happening.