[LK44-40]

I am extremely skeptical of fad diseases (e.g., chronic fatitude, epstein-barr), many psychiatric diagnoses, and all fad diets. When a couple of years ago a sickly and toothpick-thin acquaintance at work told me that he and his wife had figured out that Ciliac's disease was his problem and had gone glutten free, well, I was skeptical.

Over the next few months, I saw this fellow pork up like a miracle. Admittedly it is only one case, but it sure did make me -- pending further evidence -- buy into at least this one health fad.

[JRandomFreeper]

What is one's proper weight? Am I too fat or too thin? Who decides?

I've been in a fight with family and Uncle Sam, because at 45, I remain whip-cord lean, and strong as a horse.

What with the lard-a$$es in the US becoming the norm, everyone says I look way too thin.

I eat 5 meals a day (not large meals) and am healthy. I'm not fat.

But well meaning busy-bodies insist that there is something wrong with me, because I'm 'skinny'. I've got a record from the USAF dated to 1980, showing my original sign-up weight. I'm 17 lbs heavier, according to my last USAF physical.

Maybe the busy-bodies need to quit munching on bon-bons while they sit on the couch.

/johnny

[Coldwater Creek]

That is exactly the way it happened to my husband. He had taken so much aspirin for the pain from Celiac that he had to have 5 units of blood. Never has had a problem for the 2 1/2 years that he has been on the diet.

[OSHA]

It's no fad. My wife has gluten intolerance. It destroys the ability of the intestines to absorb. She was very anemic before going wheat free and had to have blood transfusions.

[brytlea]

Like most things, there really are people who suffer from probably all of the problems one could come up with. Unfortuantely, it is easy for others (who may really have a problem) to jump on that bandwagon. And of course, as sure as the sun rises there will also be people who don't believe ANY of those things exist. And so it goes.
susie