Gluten-free diets could lead to deficiencies and cause illness

The Australian ^ | JOHN ROSS | March 10, 2017

[bk1000]

I used to order extra gluten with a side of gluten. Read the book “Wheat Belly”. The wheat grown now is nothing like it was 100 years ago. If I go two weeks without any gluten I don’t feel any different, but then I eat some and I feel like I’ve been punched in the gut. Weird stuff. Weird and delicious stuff, that gluten.

[A Navy Vet]

Gluten is a major component of wheat. Remember when the nutritionists were promoting whole wheat? Remember when they said egg yolks were going to kill you and now say a good source of protein? Red meat, don't get me started.

Remember when heart disease was specifically caused by cholesterol, which is the mother hormone produced by your liver? Now it's about triglicerides. First it was about cholesterol plaque buildup in the arteries, and now it's about inflammation of the endothelium within the arteries and veins.

And then there's the Population Bomb that will kill millions through starvation. The diminishing Ozone Layer that would kill billions. The Alcar scare that bankrupted many fruit farmers. We had 9 planets until they decided Pluto was planatoid. Now they are claiming a "possible" huge 9th planet outside the Kuiper belt of asteroids.

The best was the 70's social scientists claiming no inherent differences between boys and girls. That idiocy has been gone for awhile, but just read they're back to it. You only need to be a parent to see the differences. I am.

I could go on and on how often our scientific community has been wrong. I predict Gluten will be proved later to be no threat to average consumer.

[heartwood]

I love gluten too, but I have cooked gluten free. It isn’t hard as long as you cook from scratch, and it shouldn’t lead to obesity or type 2 diabetes - more likely to prevent it.

The simplest way is not to try gluten-free substitutes. You will probably never find a good wheatless French bread. So you skip sandwiches and pizza and go to cuisines that are not wheat-based. Indian, Chinese, Thai, Mexican. The primary grain is rice or corn.

You eat plenty of meat, eggs, dairy, vegetables, fruit. You don’t worry at all about those things having gluten as long as they’re not processed and pre-cooked for you.

It is possible to make very good gluten-free cakes and cookies - in a cake you want a fine crumb - you’re not making protein strands as you do in a kneaded bread.

[Rockingham]

The best gluten free diets rely mostly on protein and vegetables, with limited gluten free carbohydrates and an avoidance of sugary drinks and processed foods. This kind of diet is rarely recommended though, even by doctors. Instead, patients are usually referred to popular books and to the gluten free grain products that they tend to promote. The point of this approach is that it is meant to ease the transition to a gluten free diet. Unfortunately, as the article indicates, this can lead to other health issues.

[metmom]

‘The earth is replete with the fruit of your works, O Lord, You bring forth bread from the earth and wine to cheer the heart.” Ps 103

Um, that's not in Psalm 103.

[metmom]

Kind of depends some on what kind of reaction they are talking about.

There’s not much specific there about those alleged reactions.

However, the guy also needs to rule out Mast Cell Activation Disorder (or disease or syndrome or whatever they are calling it these days.)

Just because it’s not celiac, doesn’t mean there’s not something going on.

[A Navy Vet]

I also believe that no cosmologist nor astro physicist can possibly understand the Singularity. They can use the red shift to watch the universe expanding, but when they do the reverse math back, they will never have an answer to their so-claimed basketball sized super-heated mass into origin. Although, I've read recently that some think such a mass could just pop into existence with out any outside influence.

I really get a kick from their claims that hydrogen came into existence just milli-seconds after the bang, and yet can't explain why. Then some minutes later, Helium was formed, and on it went with the other elements within their equations. Could be wrong about the time of Hydrogen and Helium, but you get my drift.

Where did the Singularity come from? White board equations will never explain it. There is more to this Universe than will ever be known. And that's why I'm an agnostic.

[Mr. K]

I’ve just switched to a meat and vegetables diet and it is SO MUCH BETTER

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

My Shanghai-born lady friend cooks gluten sometimes. Yum! Popular in China.

[Mr. K]

I have tried “ancient grain” called Einkorn with some success - it is supposed to be an unmodified form of wheat that was used for thousands of years, not the modern versions we call ‘wheat’

But then I am a sucker for the latest fads in this kind o stuff.

[heartwood]

I have a Chinese cookbook that gives instruction on washing away the starch from flour and keeping the gluten.

Then of course you could just eat wallpaper paste (wheat starch).

[Rusty0604]

My mother used to listen to all the rubbish studies and developed a fear of all food. It got to where she would hardly eat anything and wouldn’t let my dad eat either. I had flown in to visit them, and knew something was wrong, so I asked my friend who is a registered nurse to check their blood sugar. She told them they should both be in the hospital because their blood sugar was so low she was surprised they weren’t in a coma. I ran to the store and bought them some food. My dad was so happy that he could eat. I’m thankful I had gone to visit when I did and that my friend explained to my mom that food is not bad, as I had them both around for another ten years. I got them signed up for wheels on meals before I left, and arranged to have someone come in and help them a few hours a day.

[boop]

"Sounds like organic, GMO-free, stone-ground cardboard."

Tastes like it, too.

Gluten-free food tastes like crap.