Maybe the recent introduction of wheat (in the evolution of humans) and the abrupt modifications to modern wheat in our lifetimes aren’t good for us. Surely the Food Industry and Big Pharma (sometimes the same companies) would tell us. Surely!
“If a person has a choice between eating wheat or not eating wheat,” he said, “then for most people, avoiding wheat would be ideal.” Read the whole article, which largely supports the conclusions of Dr Davis in Wheat Belly without ever mentioning him or his book. Nothing says paradigm-shift like “experts are skeptical.” peace, mjh
Gluten-Free for the Gluten Sensitive – NYTimes.com By KENNETH CHANG
Now medical experts largely agree that there is a condition related to gluten other than celiac. In 2011 a panel of celiac experts convened in Oslo and settled on a medical term for this malady: non-celiac gluten sensitivity. …
What worries doctors is that the problem seems to be growing. After testing blood samples from a century ago, researchers discovered that the rate of celiac appears to be increasing. Why is another mystery. Some blame the wheat ….
There are also people who are allergic to wheat (not necessarily gluten), but until recently, most experts had thought that celiac and wheat allergy were the only problems caused by eating the grain.
For 99 out of 100 people who don’t have celiac — and those who don’t have a wheat allergy — the undigested gliadin fragments usually pass harmlessly through the gut, and the possible benefits of a gluten-free diet are nebulous, perhaps nonexistent for most. But not all.
Anecdotally, people like Ms. Golden Testa say that gluten-free diets have improved their health. Some people with diseases like irritable bowel syndrome and arthritis also report alleviation of their symptoms, and others are grasping at gluten as a source of a host of other conditions, though there is no scientific evidence to back most of the claims. Experts have been skeptical. It does not make obvious sense, for example, that someone would lose weight on a gluten-free diet. In fact, the opposite often happens for celiac patients as their malfunctioning intestines recover. …