Sweets make me nauseous

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For about the last 10 years or so, I've lost my ability to tolerate birthday cake, because I would become so nauseous from eating it. This also includes birthday cake-flavored ice cream. I like the birthday cake taste, but my nausea takes over.

I'd like to note that I have been tested repeatedly for diabetes, with all the tests (both fasting glucose tests and one H1AC test) coming back well within the normal range, so diabetes doesn't explain it. Also, I drink surgary drinks without the same ill effects.

Why, then, do I have this reaction?

Maybe there's something in the cake and ice cream that isn't in the sweet drinks that your system doesn't like - I'm thinking gluten?

Gluten and sugar so often go hand in hand...

Or perhaps lactose? Icing and ice cream would have lactose, but not the drinks...

What is gluten? I hear about it getting blamed for a lot of ailments, though the medical community doesn't seem to be too impressed by this. What kinds of foods is it found in?

gluten is a secondary metabolite produced by certain grains and which is responssiblle for the sticky quality of breads. its actully thought that the plant produces this as a defensive mechanism from bein eaten, but oddlly enough humans go for grain specificallly because of the properties of gluten that allowss it to be made into bread. that prety much answers the two questions - basic definition of gluten and its found in grains, especially in refined flour where its often concentrated. you eat bread or cake or pastries that isnt specifically gluten free, then your likely eating a crap ton of gluten.

problem is, as recent reserch is suggesting, is that humans are not evolutionarily designed to eat grass (grains are grasses), and while som peoplle have a better tolerance for gluten, there are some, such as the last peoplles to abandon hunting/gathering/herding lifestyles, such as northern europeans, who react very poorly to gluten (which is why see coeliac disease more often in northern europeans, which is primarily an intolerance to gluten). gluten, because of its nature as a defensive chemicall, causes inflammation, and those who are more sensitive to it, that can help along all sorts of health problemms associated with chronic inflammation, including helping the development of digestive diseases, obesity, and heart diseases.

i ahve the same problem by the way, i cant eat flour-basedd sweets or breads anymor without geting very ill, and im guessing because of gluten sensitivity

No. I'm not lactose intolerant. One of my most frequent and favorite meals is cereal with milk, skim milk to be specific (which I've heard is the worst for those lactose intolerant), and it almost never, at least, gives me any problem.

I've also eaten wheat-based cereal without any problem. I prefer to eat wheat bread.

Last edited by beneficii on 13 Oct 2014, 8:13 pm, edited 1 time in total.

There's Birthday Bash ice cream in my freezer that makes me feel nauseous even just thinking about eating it. When I do eat it, I get nauseous, even after I just bought it.

I don't get nauseous if I eat plain pound cake, which contains flour, but put all that icing and stuff on it and the nausea will start.