re: What's The Deal With This Gluten Intolerance Stuff?

People with gluten issues, peanut allergies, diabetes and such need to not have children. If they keep spreading the beta genes, a terrorist can wipe us out with a cookie bar or two.

Luckily I'm gluten tolerant

quote:

---

Luckily I'm gluten tolerant

---

Lucky you cause Pizza is sooo god damn good.

The more and more research is done, the more evidence there is that gluten intolerance is a fraud condition.

It follows the general formula for a medical scam. You take a real, life threatening medical condition, celiac disease in this case, and slightly modify it so you can sell books and products based on the subject and all the gullible retards in the world will buy into it.

I've seen the same thing happen with Addisons disease and a related made up condition called adrenal fatigue.

I can say this. When I follow the "Wheat Belly" diet (low carbs and no wheat), I feel better, lose weight and my measured blood sugar decreases. When I replaced wheat with "gluten free" substitutes, my blood sugar pushed into prediabetic levels. Eliminating wheat, most other grains and eating vegetable based substitutes, I was in the clear on blood sugar measurements and lost 30 lbs. I'm not celiac, but I am a believer that modern wheat is the main reason for our diabetes explosion. TIFWIW.

Our food is what is making us sick these days. It's a sad state of affairs.

Gluten allergies are more common now due to all of the crap we eat in processed foods and the fact that most people now grow up in urban or suburban environments with air conditioning, meaning that their bodies are exposed to far fewer allergens on a daily basis than previous generations. This means that their bodies do not learn to deal with as much.

It has been proven that statistically, the more one lives outside, the fewer allergies they will develop. That is why the Amish (when tested) are among the least allergic people in the world (there's a small subset of Swiss people in the Alps that are number 1). The more you're exposed to as a child every day, the more dirt you eat, pollen you breath in, ect, the fewer allergies you develop.

However, once one has a gluten allergy, it's no joke. My SO's mom has it, and it is rough. She can't eat pizza, bread, cookies, or pasta. She has to get special gluten free pasta and cookies. She can only eat pizza from Mellow Mushroom because they offer a gluten free crust option. She also has to watch what kinds of alcohol she drinks and generally has to stick to wine.

I hate intolerant people.

quote:

---

Eliminating wheat, most other grains and eating vegetable based substitutes, I was in the clear on blood sugar measurements and lost 30 lbs. I'm not celiac, but I am a believer that modern wheat is the main reason for our diabetes explosion. TIFWIW.

---

You are eliminating simple carbs. This is nothing new. Ever heard of the Atkins diet? Sugar busters diet?

You quit eating junk food, lost weight, and feel better? Riveting.