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I have a friend who has decided that all the evils that befall her body are cause by.....gluten.
I just laugh and eat what I want.
avoiding carbs is a good thing for most people no matter in what form they come.
Nice article, thanks.
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Several years ago, I read a glowing article about the agriculture department at a major east coast university earning money by planting several thousand acres of broccoli.
Several months later, I read a glowing article from the science department at that same east coast university extolling the health benefits of — guess what veggy.
I live by one dietary rule.
If it tastes good, I eat it.
was at dinner with 2 other couples recently. It took 45 minutes to order - “Is this gluten free?”, “I’m a lacto-ovo vegetarian so do you use any ...?”, “I have a nut allergy....”
Here is another new ‘urban legend’ debunked, this time about low salt diets.
If you have heart problems, better read and consider the evidence. Low salt can kill you.
I don’t think that it’s nice to make fun of glutens. Glutens are people too! Some of my best friends are glutens. I dated a gluten once in college. I think our society suffers from an intolerance towards glutens.
Look at the University of Massachusetts......The Fighting Glutens. Where is their tolerance?
Eat margarine, not butter. No wait, eat butter instead.
Don't eat egg yolks, eat the whites only. No, wait...
Don't eat bacon. Don't eat red meat. Don't eat bread. Don't eat peanut butter. Don't eat fish, it's high in mercury. Don't eat cheese, it's high in fat. Don't eat potatoes. Don't eat white rice, eat brown rice instead. Eat shrimp, no wait, nevermind.
If there is such a thing as gluten intolerance, it’s probably caused by the contemporary mania for vaccination. Vaccination is not a harmless thing, as the veterinary profession has of late discovered, much to its distress, since vaccination is the bread-and-butter of veterinary revenue.
I have discovered over the last 2 or 3 years that wheat causes problems in my gut, colitis, etc. The doctor did a blood test for gluten sensitivity and I came out negative according to the test BUT if I eat something made out of wheat more than once a week................ I am very sorry that I did.
On the one hand, I find all this glutenphobia just another example of Silly Oat Bran Syndrome (anybody remember the Oat Bran craze?). On the other hand, gluten - among other things - makes my daughter break out with zits like nobody’s bid’ness, so this time I’m grateful for the ignorant fools who are responsible for bringing many more gluten-free products to the grocery shelves. Heh.
“But don’t try to convince the crazed people who have sworn off gluten as if it were a deadly poison.”
The nice thing about a (relatively) free country is that we can do our research and draw our own conclusions.
In the case of gluten, I’m with the “crazed people”. We have COMPLETELY re-engineered wheat (via hybridization) to the point where it does not even remotely resemble the wheat your grandmother grew up with 50 years ago. For starters that there are new proteins, many, that humans never dealt with in the past. On top of that, the wheat grown today is 18” tall, no more 6 foot stalks blowing in the wind - totally re-engineered. Also, I actually find it MUCH MORE LIKELY that companies like ADM would be covering up the issues with wheat, rather than growers of rice, corn, and potatoes gathering in smoke-filled rooms to figure out how to bad-mouth wheat. Conspiracies which involving widely differing entities are not easy to pull off - whereas one player (or group of similar players) hiding bad data from the public is MUCH EASIER (just look at the drug companies).
On the good side, yields have increased 10-fold, which is why the world (with the exception of war zones) has an OBESITY problem now, rather than a hunger problem.
So, in the end, yes, I will eat wheat products if there’s nothing else practical to eat (and with a few exceptions, like being on vacation at my handful of favorite eating places) - my body will take the punishment. But on a regular basis, I’m done with wheat, and I’m light on other carbs.
But, as I said, people are free to choose as they wish, at least for now.
Ooops, never mind.
Why can’t I have a ll gluten diet?
Gluten free is the biggest food hoax the last few years.
My sister-in-law remembers back in the early 1960s when the fad was gluten enhanced foods. She had her husband go all over Los Angeles looking for bread with extra gluten in it.