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Well my wife is a coeliac, and it definitely affects her - small amounts of wheat can leave her with food poisoning style symptoms, trapped in the toilet and ve

by ljf 12y ago

Well my wife is a coeliac, and it definitely affects her - small amounts of wheat can leave her with food poisoning style symptoms, trapped in the toilet and very ill. And this isn't just when she is aware that she might have eaten, she's had this when she's eaten things supposedly gluten free, and then been ill - only to realise that someone thought 'maybe a little wouldn't hurt her'. Way before that my dads first wife had this in the late 50s in the UK - the doctors thought she had leukemia. They had basically given up on her (as there was no treatment for leukemia at the time) and she went home to her parents - there she met a student doctor who wondered if it could be wheat. Within a week she was up again after nearly a year bed ridden. I think years ago these people just wouldn't survive childhood, or if it occurred in adulthood (as it did for my wife and my father's first wife(, then it would have been misdiagnosed as something else. Those truly affected by this aren't subscribing to some fad, they really are ill, life-threateningly so. On the flip side - I had no allergy, but I feel a lot better if I cut out simple carbs, in particular bread and pasta. If I eat a sandwich at lunch I am usually dopey for the rest of the afternoon - if I eat a protein rich lunch, then I feel great. I don't blame that on the gluten - but cutting it out has done me no harm.

ubernostrum 12y ago
People who go gluten-free typically do not have any form of celiac -- the fad largely started with claims of non-celiac gluten sensitivity, and even the researchers who originally identified that have now retracted their claims and stated they can find no evidence that such sensitivity exists.
- pyre 12y ago
  Said researchers have claimed[1] that reducing FODMAPs[2] (which many gluten-free diets coincidentally reduce) could be the culprit for the problems that people are experiencing (and attributing to non-celiac gluten sensitivity). It is worth noting that the follow-up study (which caused them to retract) had a sample-size of ~30 people (though it was especially comprehensive). [1] Less 'claimed' than postulated. Their follow-up study showed that the symptoms were mostly showing up in relation the presence of FODMAPs in the diet. [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FODMAP http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FODMAP

by ljf 12y ago

ubernostrum 12y ago

People who go gluten-free typically do not have any form of celiac -- the fad largely started with claims of non-celiac gluten sensitivity, and even the researchers who originally identified that have now retracted their claims and stated they can find no evidence that such sensitivity exists.

pyre 12y ago
Said researchers have claimed[1] that reducing FODMAPs[2] (which many gluten-free diets coincidentally reduce) could be the culprit for the problems that people are experiencing (and attributing to non-celiac gluten sensitivity). It is worth noting that the follow-up study (which caused them to retract) had a sample-size of ~30 people (though it was especially comprehensive). [1] Less 'claimed' than postulated. Their follow-up study showed that the symptoms were mostly showing up in relation the presence of FODMAPs in the diet. [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FODMAP http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FODMAP