The Gluten Lie: And Other Myths about What You Eat

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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. Whether you agree with the points or examples, there is certainly plenty of food for thought – and thought for food. Their lives revolve around it, thinking constantly about what foods are at the places they’re going to be.

These asymptomatic adults and kids still had inflammatory fires raging in their gut… promoting further disease development (like Cancer). This is supported by the demonstration of a normal bone mineral density up to 10 years of dietary treatment. Celiacs produce 30 times as much zonulin as non-celiacs, even though the celiacs had been off gluten for over two years! I understand I can change my preference through my account settings or unsubscribe directly from any marketing communications at any time.

The author has a valid point - that extremes in nutrition really aren't helpful, and are often over-hyped. If this was a book about the development and progression of food myths over history with a conclusion that summed up in 15-20 pages the current scientific findings on gluten, fat, salt, sugar and carbs (i. 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. Chinese sages with long beards, wise old women prescribing natural folk remedies—these are characters from fairy tales, not trustworthy sources of medical information.

Good foods, on the other hand, are ‘whole’, ‘real’, and ‘clean’ - terms better suited to monastic manuals and philosophical treatises (what is real food, exactly? The gluten chapter does alright; it's a history of Celiac Disease developments and how prior treatments for CD have also been diet crazes.Gym-goers and raw foodists alike carried around a stash for healthy, protein-rich snacking, almond-milk lattes were quaffed, and almond flour featured in so many paleo and gluten-free treats. If you have concerns about toothpaste, we'd recommend that you check the ingredients list and contact the manufacturers directly. that's for the reviewers who only read the first section of the UNpacked Diet and who then didn't keep going to realise that this was satire and was subsequently thoroughly debunked by its author using the same methods he used in the other chapters.