Posted on 09/07/2014 7:56:56 AM PDT by Second Amendment First
Edited on 09/07/2014 8:44:27 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
Since the rise of both modern medicine and society, a large subset of the Western World's population has required a scapegoat to explain their everyday ills. Today, it's gluten. A decade ago, it was monosodium glutamate (MSG). One hundred years ago, it was poop.
(Excerpt) Read more at realclearscience.com ...
“Today, autointoxication lives on in the form of fruitless cleanse diets and enemas of all sorts.”
This is one of the problems with absolutist writing. Often medical fads have at least some truth behind them, so an “either/or” approach doesn’t work.
As far as cleanse diets go, some of them are quite efficacious, and are backed by science. For example, human bile is generated to neutralize stomach acid; then after doing so, it is recycled in the body. However, several toxic metals can be recycled with it, eventually building up in the body.
So consuming some water soluble fiber that tend to bind with bile will flush a lot of it, and these associated metals, out of your system.
Other cleansers are used after the liver and kidneys have been stressed in some way, or after several years for the liver, which may need a bit of routine cleaning. No surprise, because it is quite a chemistry lab and does a multitude of complex reactions.
You must think we are glutens for punishment in regards to your rye humor!
“I disagree about the author’s implication that gluten intolerance is just a fad.”
My wife’s grand-daughter developed some gluten intolerance. All of a sudden, the other grandmother went totally gluten free and now says she feels much better! We can’t tell the difference. She is her same old self. Just can’t stop talking about how going gluten free has changed her life!
Everyone is different, yet those that cry 'gluten-free' suggest it's good for all...without there being one of the diseases present that require it.
In my case it's a combination of eliminating foods with synthetic multi-syllabic ingredients (MSG being one of them, preservatives another) from my diet and using only good ingredients to cook/bake with. I add approximately 20% by volume of additional gluten to my whole wheat recipes and have zero ill effect. Contrast that with eating most any bread 'product'...I can't do it without getting ill and gaining weight. My bread also rises for a day and with added nutritional gluten originating from wheat berry. Who knows what kind of garbage they put in regular, mass-produced breads (with one major exception: Dave's Killer Bread, the only bread product I can eat without ill effect).
The irony (for me): I can't eat 'gluten-free' products without ill effect...presumably from the other ingredients added to give the gluten-free product something that resembles a non-gluten-free product in appearance, taste & texture.
In my case I disagree with the author on MSG, but otherwise LOVE his closing in regards to Gluten.
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For those curious here, Bob's Red Mill products are, imho, the ONLY products to try. Dave's Killer Bread uses Bob's Red Mill products and I believe that greatly contributes to that product's quality & success. My diet would be vastly more complicated and less pleasurable without both.
Wasn’t there an enema phase around the 1900’s? People would go to spas and it was felt it was healthy.
“As far as cleanse diets go, some of them are quite efficacious, and are backed by science. For example, human bile is generated to neutralize stomach acid; then after doing so, it is recycled in the body. However, several toxic metals can be recycled with it, eventually building up in the body.”
Science link please ...
I love it! TY
For the several million Americans who knowingly or not suffer from celiac disease, gluten is a scientifically proven villain. Since most cases of celiac disease are never medically diagnosed, for such individuals, gluten is the root cause of a lifetime of nonspecific complaints of fatigue, poor health, and of specific maladies like osteoporosis and autoimmune disorders.
Celiac disease and other digestive disorders commonly also affect mood and personality. Some gastroenterology references describe a complaining "celiac personality" that improves with the elimination of gluten. Indeed, for celiacs, a missing digestive enzyme leads to the creation of a toxic peptide -- which is a way of saying that for celiacs, gluten is toxic.
Similarly, food intolerances and allergies, IBS (Irritable Bowel Syndrome) and IBD (Inflammatory bowel disease) are common ailments that are usually diagnosed only after years of vague ill health. IBS and IBD are influenced by diet and can to a degree be treated by dietary changes.
A century ago, was the idea of "autointoxication" wrong? By modern standards of medical science it was, but in many cases, it surely described digestive complaints that were genuine and would now be diagnosed in modern terms as food allergies and intolerances, celiac disease, IBS, and IBD.
Even Mechnikov's odd practice of drinking sour milk cannot be entirely rejected. Beneficial bacteria are now recognized to be helpful in many digestive ailments. In some rare cases, such good bacteria are provided via a "poop transplant" when an especially dangerous bacteria Clostridium difficile has taken hold.
The bottom line: the comparison fails at both ends. For millions of Americans today, gluten really is a scientifically proven villain, and a century ago, the term "autointoxication" broadly described the wide range of digestive ailments that we commonly suffer from.
...and global warming.
Maybe there was one that far back too, but I know there was one in California as recently as the 90s. But what do you expect from California?
I’ve been in those businesses as a contractor, High colonic clinics and Yoga clinics, oil and hot tub clinics, all kinds of therapies, all part of the life in California.
I have to say that unless the money was absolutely stellar, I would decline any work at a California colonic clinic. And this coming from a guy who used to clean the sumps at a hide tannery.
They were always pristine and clean, and geared for an upscale clientele, remember that most of what they are selling (all of them), is a mood, an atmosphere of caring and indulgence, and one on one attention.
I don’t think it was California. I’ll check it out on Wikipedia.
Okay - here’s what I found. Back in the early 1900’s enemas were very popular. People would go to spas and get them. If you google ‘John Kellog’ (he invented Kellog corn flakes) you can get more information. He was a doctor who ran the Battle Creek Sanitarium.
No thanks.
I’m familiar with the Kellogg story. Just an example of a little fruit with your cereal ...
And that WAS a century ago. At the time when patent medicines and quackery were all the rage. You’d think maybe we’ve come a ways since then, but then you look and realize that no, Barnum was right. There really IS one born every minute.
How do we know it was bad? Maybe it was good for us. Corn flakes couldn’t be bad. The rest, I dunno.
I’d rather have a bowl of oatmeal than an enema.
Which is a sentence I never imagined myself writing ...
A bowl of oatmeal with some butter and sugar?
Soooo goooood
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