Pretty fascinating article on the gluten-free fad (non-celiac gluten sensitivity). Welcome any and all opinions/anecdotes from my nutrition-conscious friends. From this, it looks more often like the effects of wanting to feel better vs. actual physiological improvement. Also natural foods and homecooked meals are key I guess. newyorker/magazine/2014/11/03/grain ---------------------------------------- While there are no scientific data to demonstrate that millions of people have become allergic or intolerant to gluten (or to other wheat proteins), there is convincing and repeated evidence that dietary self-diagnoses are almost always wrong, particularly when the diagnosis extends to most of society. We still feel more comfortable relying on anecdotes and intuition than on statistics or data. - This is getting out of hand. We are seeing more and more cases of orthorexia nervosa”—people who progressively withdraw different foods in what they perceive as an attempt to improve their health. “First, they come off gluten. Then corn. Then soy. Then tomatoes. Then milk. After a while, they don’t have anything left to eat—and they proselytize about it. - Cutting back on foods that contain gluten often helps people reduce their consumption of refined carbohydrates, bread, beer, and other highly caloric foods. When followed carefully, those restrictions help people lose weight, particularly if they substitute foods like quinoa and lentils for the starches they had been eating. But eliminating gluten is complicated, inconvenient, and costly, and data suggest that most people don’t do it for long. - Because what are the things that sell food? Salt, sugar, fat, and gluten. If the makers take one away, then they add more of another to keep it attractive to people. If you don’t have celiac disease, then these diets are not going to help you.” People seem to forget that a gluten-free cake is still a cake. Fad dieting is nothing new in America; it’s what we do instead of eating balanced, nutritiously wholesome meals.
Posted on: Mon, 03 Nov 2014 23:42:03 +0000
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