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Default Is Gluten Sensitivity for Real?



"dsi1" > wrote in message
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> On 11/13/2014 11:18 AM, Roy wrote:
>> On Thursday, November 13, 2014 12:38:24 PM UTC-7, ImStillMags wrote:
>>> On Thursday, November 13, 2014 9:38:45 AM UTC-8, notbob wrote:
>>>> On 2014-11-13, Mark Storkamp > wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> It might make a cynical person think they're just doing this for the
>>>>> funding.
>>>>
>>>> Ya' think!?
>>>
>>> My take is this. If you feel better not eating gluten, don't eat it.
>>> But you have to be willing to do do the elimination diet routine to see
>>> which foods affect you adversely. If a food bothers you or gives you
>>> gastric distress or disagreeable symptoms.......duh.....don't eat it.

>>
>> The percentage of people who have problems with gluten are quite small
>> but these turkeys who write books like "Wheat Belly" cause people to
>> think otherwise. Your advice is good.
>>

>
> It's the same hysteria with MSG. Some Chinese guy writes a letter to the
> New England Journal of Medicine describing a set of reactions that he got
> when eating at Chinese restaurants in the US and speculates on some
> ingredients that might be responsible for it - MSG being one of them. This
> rings a chord with people and the idea goes viral even before there was
> Youtube. Chinese Restaurant Syndrome was born and the rest is history. It
> was the letter that shook heaven and earth - culinarily speaking. :-)


Yep, read all that but I still use it. Sparingly but then I don't think it
is supposed to be used in quantity

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