The Gluten Lie: And Other Myths about What You Eat

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Like people with Celiac disease that follow a strict gluten-free diet and don’t get better… Does that Mean the Gluten-Free Diet is the Wrong Prescription for Celiac Disease? Do you think there’s an incentive to setting yourself apart from the culture at-large? Uniqueness can carry its own social value.

I recall a member of our food coop who lobbied hard for our store to be vegan in every area but… pet food. I asked her why selling non vegan pet food is okay and she replied "well, I have a cat". I said "So, you are saying that though all of us have different contradictions in our choices, your contradiction is the only acceptable one." Yes, she thought we should all abide by her choices as they were the only "right" ones. In other words, if you’re a symptom-free Celiac and your labs show signs of gut inflammation… you’re going to die much sooner than you think. So, Should Celiacs Eat a Gluten-Free Diet? In addition to his scholarship he has published extensively on how people’s attitudes toward food, medicine, and technology are shaped by myths and rituals, resulting in everything from vaccine avoidance to the adoption of extreme fad diets. Alan has been featured in publications such as Wired, The Washington Post, the Atlantic, Aeon, Slate and elsewhere. Sure. But I think it’s dangerous to say “our culture’s eating habits.” Our culture’s eating habits are extraordinarily varied. Yeah, it’s great to look at another culture, break it down in all of its complexity, and see if there any specific things that these people do that can be of benefit not just to them, but to us. We all have contradictions in our lives. You can only be aware of them and choose what is best for you without harming others. For years I had on my office bulletin board a quote from Epictetus;I think a lot of people are distinguishing themselves by adopting ascetic diets. Religious people have done this since time immemorial. To show that they have some kind of strength to distance themselves from the material world, they adopt ascetic diets. Kažkuo primena The Bad Food Bible, tik pastarojoje daugiau buvo tikrinami mitybos mitai, o čia nagrinėjama, KAIP formuojasi tie mitai (apie E621, cukrų, druską, riebalus ir pan.) Labiau istorinis ir sociologinis pjūvis, įtarpuojant daug paaiškinimų, kokiais principais vadovaujasi mitybos mokslas, kokias silpnąsias mokslo ir mūsų vietas išnaudoja visokie mitybos "guru". Chris also pointed out the same study looked at Leaky Gut in Celiac disease patients following a gluten-free diet for more than two years: Well, “the electricity of idea at the part of parents may be very robust in situations affecting their youngsters’s conduct.” For instance, there has been this well-known study in which all of the children were given “a drink with synthetic sweetener,” but half of of the parents have been informed that the drink become sweetened with a boatload of sugar. And, “[t]he dad and mom who concept their youngsters had obtained the sugar-drink rated their [own] children’s conduct as appreciably worse…”

Food rituals, food taboos, dietary demons, dietary myths, magic diets, guilt, sin: why do we apply so much religious language to food? A 2008 study in the Journal of Inflammation looked at 18 symptom-free Celiac disease (SFCD) patients and found they still had elevated markers of gut inflammation even after 2 years on a gluten-free diet. The authors reported: Absolutely. And the thing that’s so troubling about gluten is that, like most things, it’s complicated. There are many people with celiac disease for whom gluten is extremely dangerous, and the scientific story on non-celiac gluten sensitivity is far from settled. A 2009 study in The Journal of Alimentary Pharmacology and Therapeutics looked at 465 Celiac disease patients and found only 8% of adult patients reached “histological normalization” after following a gluten-free diet for 16 months, meaning their gut tissue completely recovered to that of a healthy person. The authors stated: While some information was interesting, I found the book annoying because he seems to jump to conclusions just as the people he has a beef with do (I also felt it was almost personal -- does he truly feel these people are evil? have their claims actually harmed people??). But I agree we need to stop reacting to every food/diet claim, especially so passionately as some of us tend to do.

I have a problem, the doctor figures out what the problem is, and gives me a conventional prescription generally supported by Doctors, researchers, and the FDA. We have the right to know what’s actually going on with our bodies, and we shouldn’t have to abandon our favorite foods if there’s nothing wrong with them.” With all kids on [the] weight loss program, gluten and casein might have been [secretly] administered, for instance, in drugs [with wheat flour or powdered milk] at some point of precise altering periods. Then, “[p]arents and caretakers might…had been unaware of who changed into [still] on [the] weight loss plan and who” was, unbeknownst to them, certainly off the food plan, secretly getting gluten and casein. Then, we should take away the placebo impact, eliminate that expectation bias. Intestinal tissues taken from controls who had been eating gluten had three-fold less leakiness compared to Celiacs who had been off gluten for over two years (so Celiacs had a much leakier gut, even while eating gluten-free). The Post Office and envelope manufacturers have assured us that the gum used on envelopes and stamps is gluten free and safe for people following a gluten free diet. Toothpaste

On this one I'd like to quote the SciBabe, a hilarious science blogger who recently took down the Food Babe: "You're constantly 'detoxing' just by living," she says. "Your kidneys and liver take care of cleaning out unnecessary things in the body fairly efficiently on their own. Proof? The toilet paper industry." While healing may take up to 2 years for many older adults, new research shows that the small intestines of up to 60% of adults never completely heal, especially when adherence to the diet is less than optimal.” [1] The thing to remember is that this guy is not a nutrition scientist, either. That PhD after his name is for religious studies. I saw this countercultural rejection of grains, and then I saw almost the exact same thing, with the same kinds of hyperbolic claims, happening again with books like Grain Brain and Wheat Belly. And I thought to myself, you know, it’s funny, people are trying to debunk these fad diets with scientific evidence, but what they’re not realizing is that really these beliefs aren’t scientific at all. They’re wrapped in scientific rhetoric, but ultimately they’re quasi-religious beliefs that are based on superstition and myth. The first six chapters of this book were spot on. Levinovitz accurately exposes the myths of gluten, sugar, fat, salt, and nutritional supplements. As a professor of religion, I felt he did a fine job of outlining the history of the demonization of these broad food groups and the thinking errors accompanying them. His message was well presented and one that more people should recognize when making their dietary choices. This message stressed the importance of a balanced diet and that restricting certain large food groups can be very detrimental to one's health. Often dieting paired with magical thinking leads people down the path of frustration, weight gain, and poor health. I am not discounting celiac disease, gluten sensitivity, or other food allergies. I do believe that the demonization of gluten has spiraled out of control and Levinovitz presents the statistics and facts in an enlightening and straight-forward manner. As I said, the first six chapters were very refreshing.These people followed a strict gluten-free diet for 16 months and most didn’t heal their gut. The success rate of the conventional Celiac disease prescription isn’t working… and the research is exploding the truth. These studies clearly show that when a Celiac stops eating foods containing gluten, the intestinal lining isn’t healing. But that’s only scratching the surface of what’s going on… 65% of Gluten-Free Celiacs Still Have a Raging Fire in Their Gut in many circumstances non-celiac gluten sensitivity is an imaginary ailment that is caused by the nocebo effect of gluten ingestion.” So, why didn’t they do it? The researchers refused to do it because they were so convinced that gluten and casein were harmful, that from an “ethical” point of view, they simply couldn’t deliver themselves to provide those kids gluten or casein. The youngsters inside the eating regimen institution seemed to be doing so much higher, and that they had visible cases wherein youngsters regarded to relapse when those proteins were reintroduced again into their food plan. Virtually ever religious tradition has had food taboos and sacred diets. I think part of the reason is that food is something that we have direct control over. It crosses the boundary in a very personal way: we take something outside of our body and put it into our body. Eating is very personal, and it’s easy to invest those kinds of things with religious and ritual significance.

Might as well be, but he doesnt cite 1 study!!! Not a single 1!!! He just casually mentiones that "this one study done in university of blablabla" proved the previous study wrong. Ehm ok...how about you add it to the footnotes, because for all I know, you just pulled it out of your hat:-) Am I biased? Yes,I personally think that a diet of mostly unprocessed, organic foods is healthier than heavily processed food regardless of what foods you choose to eat. Fewer additives may be better. It can take more time to prepare your own meals but there are ways to plan meals to offset that. Is it more expensive, yes for some items, no for others. Having cooking skills makes this easier. Where I worked, part of our goal was to help people learn how to do these things. I also believe that people deserve to work in safe conditions and be paid fairly; that plants are not just trademarked product; that animals are not just product and should be raised humanely and respected for their sacrifice. To the best of my ability I abide by these guidelines but am not perfect. An incendiary work of science journalism debunking the myths that dominate the American diet and showing readers how to stop feeling guilty and start loving their food again—sure to ignite controversy over our obsession with what it means to eat right.Even when he's praising science/nutrition writers like [author:Gary Taubes|712666] (who, by the way, is a big time low carb-high protein advocate) and his book [book:Good Calories, Bad Calories: Fats, Carbs, and the Controversial Science of Diet and Health|11370670] he says that having an occasional doughnut is not the end of the world. I thought the rice diet story was the saddest, more due to the utter hypocrisy involved in the manipulation of women's fears about being fat to control and bilk them while feeding them a crappy diet. It would be another whole article to write about the search for belief and how people are manipulated by it to spend money on hope. The author does touch on this.