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Gluten-free not great for gut health

Fri, 22 May 2009 12:23:00 +0000

Friday May 22, 2009 (foodconsumer.org) -- While the gluten-free fad has sprouted, with products available from beer to pasta to waffles, the trendy diet may

Mark

Mon, 25 May 2009 17:23:56 +0000

This study I understand was based on 10 people who did not have celiac. Is this true? If so, isn't it irresponsible to put this forward or write about it as a legitimate study? Tell if I'm wrong on this.

celiac person

Mon, 25 May 2009 23:57:19 +0000

This article is very irresponsible. Eating gluten free is not a fad for Celiac individuals, it's a medication. With more than 97% of the population in the USA still undiagnosed, you should be focusing on awareness not bashing a lifetime medication diet. Sheilah Downey, you are an idiot! And you probably have celiac disease and don't even know it. 1 - 100 chance!

gf advocate

Tue, 26 May 2009 04:40:28 +0000

Irresponsible and uninformed. A gluten-free diet is not optional if you are one of the millions of Americans with Celiac Disease. It is a lifetime diet that you can't cheat on EVER.

If bloating and rashes were the only symptoms of Celiac Disease that would be awesome. Unfortunately, left untreated CD can be FATAL! It can lead to other auto-immune disorders such as MS, cause serious vitamin deficiencies which themselves can be FATAL, cause cancer (you guess, potentially FATAL), etc. My wife lost her gall bladder and was on her way to losing her Pancreas due to her body not producing enough of the hormone CCK as a result of cheating on a gluten-free diet.

Sheilah Downey, try doing your homework next time instead of just trying to create a sensational headline with popular keywords for search engines. And if you get diagnosed with Celiac Disease make sure to get a bone density scan. You'd probably be well on your way to Osteoporosis, another common side effect of CD. But you didn't know that either did you!

organic brian

Mon, 08 Jun 2009 04:42:19 +0000

This article is highly irresponsible. I've seen the same story on many media outlets, and none of them have given the details for how the study was carried out. This reeks of industry propaganda (to get some people to buy gluten foods again), similar to the way coconut foods were debased by phony studies by the soy industry. Did the participants use gluten-free grains (such as millet, quinoa, amaranth, buckwheat) in place of the glutenous grains (wheat, rye, barley, and their relatives such as spelt) that they didn't eat? Did they eat a balanced diet? Did they eat nothing but packaged gluten-free processed products such as cookies and frozen pizzas? Anyone who eats enough raw vegetables should have sufficient "good" bacteria, regardless of what else they are eating. Gluten grains have little to do with populating the gut microflora compared to other foods. There are entire societies which don't consume gluten at all.

Also, a gluten-free diet is not a "fad" for anyone with Celiac, it is their only option for good health.

deirdre lennon

Sat, 18 Jul 2009 22:44:43 +0000

I would like to know if celiac disease is a cause for seizures (epilespy)?

hiker girl

Fri, 04 Sep 2009 16:08:52 +0000

I don't think the point of this review was to criticize a gluten-free diet for people who have Celiac...the purpose of the study was to determine what it was doing for the diet-fad people who are just on it because everyone says it's beneficial. It is beneficial for those who have Celiac disease, but out of neccessity. It may not be beneficial for those who do not. This is why the did the study on people who do not have Celiac disease. Plus if you want to see how the actual study was carried out...look it up in the journal it was published in.