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Lots of references, but I checked one at random and the article misrepresented the content. Specifically, the claim "Eating gluten can damage the intestinal li
by bcoates 14y ago
Lots of references, but I checked one at random and the article misrepresented the content.
Specifically, the claim "Eating gluten can damage the intestinal lining, cause pain, bloating, stool inconsistency and tiredness". But reference 14 (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21224837 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21224837) is a study of something else entirely: they studied people who had IBS, tested negative for celiac disease, but reported that restricting gluten intake helped their symptoms.
The study showed that the patients were right: under double-blind conditions they had less symptoms under a non-gluten diet. This is an interesting result, and the authors conclude that "Non-celiac gluten intolerance" may exist, but no clues to the mechanism were elucidated.
But converting this into medical advice for the vast majority of people who are not suffering from clinical levels of IBS is not an honest representation of the research. Given that the rest of the article makes a lot of bombastic claims mixed with what I already assumed was "mainstream nutrition" (it would be nice for them to define this), I think it's safe to put this article/site in the kook pile.