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Wheat Gluten Confirmed to Promote Weight Gain
The Epoch Times ^ | 7-10-2014 | Sayer Ji

Posted on 07/12/2014 4:11:32 PM PDT by Renfield

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1 posted on 07/12/2014 4:11:32 PM PDT by Renfield
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To: Renfield

Would that be GMO gluten or non-GMO gluten?


2 posted on 07/12/2014 4:17:10 PM PDT by BuffaloJack (Unarmed people cannot defend themselves. America is no longer a Free Country.)
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To: Renfield

So, red meat, dairy, sugar, corn, rice, and now wheat are certified by “experts” to be bad for me.


3 posted on 07/12/2014 4:18:24 PM PDT by Bryanw92 (Sic semper tyranni)
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The debate is over, the science is settled.


4 posted on 07/12/2014 4:19:23 PM PDT by Perdogg (Ted Cruz-Rand Paul 2016)
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To: BuffaloJack
Would that be GMO gluten or non-GMO gluten?

BINGO!
5 posted on 07/12/2014 4:22:40 PM PDT by Tailback
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To: Bryanw92

Busch and Bud are bad for you. USA regional craft beers are good.

And that science is *settled*. /grin


6 posted on 07/12/2014 4:26:59 PM PDT by ChildOfThe60s ((If you can remember the 60s.....you weren't really there)
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To: Renfield

All horse poop.
ANY carbohydrates are eventual fat cell fillers.
Hispanics have a large propensity for obesity and diabetes. They eat very little wheat, but consume large amounts of corn tortillas.
Almost everything they eat is wrapped in a tortilla.
Dr. Belly Fat’s research was probably funded by the corn lobby.


7 posted on 07/12/2014 4:27:50 PM PDT by doc maverick
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What about the food pyramid that the experts have been promoting since I was in grade school?

We should be able to sue these so called scientists for all the harm they do with their brain dead ideas.

At a minimum they should have to disclose if their "research" is being funded by someone who has a financial interest in the outcome of their results.

8 posted on 07/12/2014 4:32:08 PM PDT by oldbrowser (We have a rogue government in Washington)
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To: Renfield

Oh noes.

CONFIRMED: Food Makes You GAIN Weight.


9 posted on 07/12/2014 4:34:47 PM PDT by ifinnegan
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To: Renfield

How long did the mice live?


10 posted on 07/12/2014 4:35:47 PM PDT by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: doc maverick
Hispanics have a large propensity for obesity and diabetes. They eat very little wheat, but consume large amounts of corn tortillas.

Corn, wheat, and rice are all grains.

11 posted on 07/12/2014 4:43:50 PM PDT by PapaBear3625 (You don't notice it's a police state until the police come for you.)
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I’m always fascinated when I come across something like this. I always ask myself, if our society was to be frozen in place, like Pompeii, what would future archeologists surmise about our society from what we were doing, what we were eating, what we were making?

From what I can guess is that the human body was not really designed to thrive using the current energy sources. Processed carb sources provide energy but most likely the wrong type. If that ends up being the case, how do we slowly move away from that is the question. Processed foods have become the norm and not the exception over my lifetime. Our society has chosen the faster and more cost effective full feeling foods versus the slower and more costly base foods. Maybe there is something to it, but I think we need to spend more time researching. Modern science is really in it’s infancy and for all intents we have no idea how processed grains and sugar effect the human body in the long term, because the studies really have only been happening for a few decades and humans evolved over millions of years.

When I was following the Atkins lifestyle, I was almost never hungry and then only after I drank alcoholic beverages. I’ve been following the principles but I still have a pizza and bowl of spags once in a while and I feel great. I read the same from people going Paleo.


12 posted on 07/12/2014 4:48:39 PM PDT by newnhdad (Our new motto: USA, it was fun while it lasted.)
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To: BuffaloJack

Exactly.

We’ve been off almost 100% gmo, high fructose corn syrup
and non-fermented soy for 2 years, and it’s not a miracle but
we’re both down in weight and have much fewer gastro problems.

I make homemade bread using spelt and certified non-gmo grain.

I really believe it’s made a positive difference.


13 posted on 07/12/2014 4:50:21 PM PDT by CaptainPhilFan ( It's hard to kiss the lips at night that chew yer ass out all day long.)
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To: Renfield

This research neglects a lot of extremely important variables, namely the bacteria in the intestinal flora.

(For a quick refresher, biological classification has a hierarchy of eight major ranks. From most encompassing to most specific, they are Domain, Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus and Species.)

For example, in the intestinal flora dwells a microorganism that looks like a bacteria, but it actually closer to humans than it is to bacteria. It belongs in a different *Domain* from bacteria, called Archaea. It is called Methanobrevibacter smithii, and it is about the only Archaea in our bodies that we know of.

However, it clearly affects human calorie harvest and body fat indirectly, by strongly improving the efficiency of bacterial digestion of dietary polysaccharides.

Simply put, bacteria digest food, which makes its nutrition more available to the body. In doing so they produce hydrogen gas which limits their action. M. smithii consumes hydrogen gas and converts it to methane, which allows the bacteria to more fully digest food, increasing the body’s calorie harvest.

And this is just one microorganism that influences our weight.

At the phylum level, there is a balance in our digestive flora between the phylum of Firmicutes bacteria and the phylum of Bacteroidetes bacteria. Firmicutes are very good at digesting food, making it much more nutritious when they dominate the balance. Bacteroidetes are less efficient, so we get less nutrition when they dominate.

That is, more Firmicutes than Bacteroidetes, and you will likely gain weight. Change the balance, and you will likely lose weight. Most “probiotic” bacteria are Firmicutes. Bacteroidetes are anaerobic, so you likely cannot get them in a supplement.

Another phylum, called Verrucomicrobia, gives us a single bacteria associated with weight loss. Called Akkermansia muciniphila, it lives in and consumes the mucus of the large intestine, but it causes it to thicken, which helps prevent bad bacteria and their toxins from entering the blood stream through the bowels. This helps reduce the inflammation that leads to weight gain.

At the Genus level, an entire genus of common digestive bacteria, called Enterobacter (Phylum: Proteobacteria), are definitely associated with weight gain. So much so that in obese people, it becomes the dominant bacteria in the flora.

Even viruses can get into the act. Human adenovirus 36 (HAdV-36) or Ad-36 or Adv36 is one of 52 types of adenoviruses known to infect humans. AD-36 is the only human adenovirus that has been linked with human obesity, present in 30% of obese humans and 11% of non-obese humans.

You have to admit that just these are a LOT of variables that should be considered in a study like this one about wheat gluten.

For example, the genus of bacteria that degrade gluten is called Rothia, in the family Micrococcaceae. Researchers noted that: “While the human digestive enzyme system lacks the capacity to cleave immunogenic gluten, such activities are naturally present in the oral microbial enzyme repertoire. The identified bacteria may be exploited for physiologic degradation of harmful gluten peptides.”


14 posted on 07/12/2014 4:51:45 PM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy ("Don't compare me to the almighty, compare me to the alternative." -Obama, 09-24-11)
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To: BuffaloJack
Would that be GMO gluten or non-GMO gluten?

LOL! Nice.

15 posted on 07/12/2014 5:16:13 PM PDT by Balding_Eagle (If America falls, darkness will cover the face of the earth for a thousand years.)
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To: Renfield

Yes, wheat is poison. Bill O’Reilly said so. No wonder all the cultures that ever grew wheat have died out. (Sarcasm, for you food nuts)


16 posted on 07/12/2014 5:26:50 PM PDT by ozzymandus
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Eating food causes weight gain? Why did I not know this?


17 posted on 07/12/2014 5:47:51 PM PDT by Rio (Proud resident of the State of Jefferson)
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To: PapaBear3625

But corn and rice don’t have the same type of gluten as wheat has, even though they are all grains.


18 posted on 07/12/2014 5:49:51 PM PDT by FrdmLvr ("WE ARE ALL OSAMA, 0BAMA!" al-Qaeda terrorists who breached the American compound in Benghazi)
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To: Renfield

I have almost totally removed wheat from my diet. I have not lost a pound, I have had some other improvements but no weight loss.


19 posted on 07/12/2014 5:53:52 PM PDT by Ditter
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New research confirms

Hardly. This is a study released December 17, 2012, conducted by Departamento de Alimentos, Faculdade de Farmácia, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, MG, in Brazil.

Personally, I replaced wheat with quinoa as a protein source for a month. Everything else being equal in both nutrition and exercise, I gained seven pounds. I returned to wheat and that weight came off.

20 posted on 07/12/2014 6:22:04 PM PDT by Praxeologue
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