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[teach2183]

Most People Shouldn't Eat Gluten-Free: Scientific American

Seriously? So the vitamins and minerals that are added into the whole wheat after processing are better then those I'm getting from meat, veggies, and fruit? Ugh, good thing I don't live with him anymore! Oddly enough, he's cutting back on carbs himself and has done Atkins in the past.

[PaleoPanda]

This article made me laugh, saw it earlier today.

Obviously, gluten free bread, cakes, baked goods and biscuits etc are nutritionally poor products. BUT SO ARE THE GLUTEN CONTAINING ONES!!!

It was literally the most patronising article I have read in a long time. The article makes a completely baseless assumption that people who go gluten free will just replace their usual junk food with gluten free junk food, because we're all so uneducated about nutrition apparently....we're all too thick to figure out that fruit and veg and real food have more nutrients in them than junk, therefore we all need to eat bread.

Utterly bonkers, and should not in any shape or form be classified as science.

[AvatarAbe]

It was literally the most patronising article I have read in a long time. The article makes a completely baseless assumption that people who go gluten free will just replace their usual junk food with gluten free junk food, because we're all so uneducated about nutrition apparently....we're all too thick to figure out that fruit and veg and real food have more nutrients in them than junk, therefore we all need to eat bread.

Around here, we know better, but sadly it's not the case overall. A good half, at least, of the people I know who are gluten-free DO in fact simply replace it with gluten-free pasta/cookies/cake/whatever. I try to point out that just because it's gluten-free doesn't mean it's healthy, and am often met with annoyed looks.

Doesn't make the article any less stupid though.

[Neckhammer]

Fiber and vitamins and minerals

Lions and tigers and bears

Oh my!

[FiveX]

Interesting...Katherine Tallmadge must work for Nabisco/Kraft. Since I am obviously uneducated about nutrition, i better pass on purchasing her book, because I wouldn't understand it. AvatarAbe does makes a good point regarding folks that think buying gluten free items is going to be healthier.

2 months ago I went all in on Paleo lifestyle. I've gone from 202 to 175. I've lowered my blood pressure from 145/90 to 106/68. I cut out all crap carbs (microbrews too unfortunately, sigh) and just watch carb intake. It's real simple, bad carbs are the demon whether they are gluten free or not. I'm pretty happy with this lifestyle, oops! Gotta run and flip my grass fed ribeye! Peace...5x

[magicmerl]

Coulda been written by the onion.

[MikeAtTaree]

That was an interesting read. Actually I have a general "inflammation" type syndrome which is annoying but not debilitating. Psoriasis, a low grade grumbling Psoriatic Arthritis of various tendons that also flares up as Bursitis of the knees, gout, and even a single attack of Iritis (inflammation of structures within the eye). All linked.

I went Primal for different reasons but having read this thread I'll be interested to see if my syndrome improves as well. Like I said it's just a background thing that grumbles on and I'd not actually thought about it when I switched lifestyle.

[Allenete]

Coulda been written by the onion.

I actually checked the top of the page once to make sure it wasn't The Onion 0_0

[LauraSB]

This sort of thing is exactly why I never talk about gluten when talking about my diet. I only say that grains are very expensive calorie-wise for the nutrients they offer. Nobody can argue that.

[s-piper]

It was literally the most patronising article I have read in a long time.

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