13 Nutrition Lies That Made The World Sick And Fat

Gluten caused my ASD? Given that recent research with eye tracking software, I find it hard to believe my parents fed me bread/doughnuts/pizza/etc in the first 3 months of my life.

Nothing wrong with gluten if you're not sensitive or don't have an allergy.

There are some studies showing too much gluten to be bad for you. Something about it building in the intestines and robbing our nutrients. It's not good to eat a lot of bread anyway. ((shrugs shoulders))

Do you have a link to the studies?

Don't you have Google?
I'm not posting to debate and not taking de bait

lol..thought as much

That's not the way it works. You make an assertion, you support it.

Pick me apart all you want if it amuses you. I already agreed with your first comment about what I said. I've already said I wasn't stating it as scientific fact. So what more do you want?

I see many others stating opinion as fact.

I am not picking you apart. I asked for you to cite the study, politely mind you. You came back with a rather rude comment.

Also, no you did not say you were not stating it as scientific fact..at all. In fact, quite the opposite.

Nothing wrong with gluten if you're not sensitive or don't have an allergy.

There are some studies showing too much gluten to be bad for you. Something about it building in the intestines and robbing our nutrients. It's not good to eat a lot of bread anyway. ((shrugs shoulders))

Do you have these studies?

It's not good to eat a lot of most foods (context relevant).

"It's not good to eat a lot of most foods (context relevant)."

True true...

This is my reply to you. How is this rude? I agreed with you.

Stating that "eating a lot of bread is bad for you anyway" is clearly only my opinion and should have been separated from the previous STATEMENT I agree.

I did not argue with the poster I simply made a comment about something I remembered reading.

I quoted the relevant post...assuming you are even directing this at me.

Thank you for posting, food for thought, but what it highlights, that at all stages things get a bad rap, then gets proven again that they are fine. Studies and scientists can all pro.ve/disprove a theory. At the end of the day, you should do what you believe is best for our body

The comment about not taking de bait was not even directed toward you Sara it was in response to someone else and not meant to be rude...notice the wink.

But I do know to brace myself for a crap storm when someone asks for "proof of what I say is true".

I said it several times in the posts that follow that the context in which I formed my sentence was not ment to be presented as fact.

So, it's ok to be rude to someone else?. That person made the same comment as me. And a wink is a cop out.

All you need to do is to state in your original post that you think you read somewhere or something to that effect. I cannot always put my hand to something I remember - and I make that clear in my post. What I do not do is tell someone else to google it...or ask them whether they actually have google.

Gluten is extremely dangerous. It's becoming more and more evident that foods in their "non-processed" form are the only ones which we should strive to consume. Unfortunately for a significantly large part of the populace, that's completely unrealistic.

Sucks for me then, I've been relying on home made seitan for protein.

Gluten is extremely dangerous. It's becoming more and more evident that foods in their "non-processed" form are the only ones which we should strive to consume. Unfortunately for a significantly large part of the populace, that's completely unrealistic.

Dangerous? In what way? How? For whom?

Excellent!

I pretty much agree with the whole thing.

Food for thought OP:
Many of the people here think your basis for your information is complete crap

Bump to read later!

Nothing wrong with gluten if you're not sensitive or don't have an allergy.

There are some studies showing too much gluten to be bad for you. Something about it building in the intestines and robbing our nutrients. It's not good to eat a lot of bread anyway. ((shrugs shoulders))

Do you have these studies?

It's not good to eat a lot of most foods (context relevant).

"It's not good to eat a lot of most foods (context relevant)."

True true...

This is my reply to you. How is this rude? I agreed with you.

Stating that "eating a lot of bread is bad for you anyway" is clearly only my opinion and should have been separated from the previous STATEMENT I agree.

I did not argue with the poster I simply made a comment about something I remembered reading.

I quoted the relevant post...assuming you are even directing this at me.

I have a feeling Sammy was referring to the damage caused by gluten in those who are Coeliac...

"When people with celiac disease eat foods or use products containing gluten, their immune system responds by damaging or destroying villi—the tiny, fingerlike protrusions lining the small intestine. Villi normally allow nutrients from food to be absorbed through the walls of the small intestine into the bloodstream. Without healthy villi, a person becomes malnourished, no matter how much food one eats."
http://digestive.niddk.nih.gov/ddiseases/pubs/celiac/

However, this is an autoimmune issue and not just caused by anyone eating gluten and demonising gluten is not the answer. Unless, like Sara said, you have a problem with it in the first place.

Nothing wrong with gluten if you're not sensitive or don't have an allergy.

There are some studies showing too much gluten to be bad for you. Something about it building in the intestines and robbing our nutrients. It's not good to eat a lot of bread anyway. ((shrugs shoulders))

Do you have these studies?

It's not good to eat a lot of most foods (context relevant).

"It's not good to eat a lot of most foods (context relevant)."

True true...

This is my reply to you. How is this rude? I agreed with you.

Stating that "eating a lot of bread is bad for you anyway" is clearly only my opinion and should have been separated from the previous STATEMENT I agree.

I did not argue with the poster I simply made a comment about something I remembered reading.

I quoted the relevant post...assuming you are even directing this at me.

I have a feeling Sammy was referring to the damage caused by gluten in those who are Coeliac...

"When people with celiac disease eat foods or use products containing gluten, their immune system responds by damaging or destroying villi—the tiny, fingerlike protrusions lining the small intestine. Villi normally allow nutrients from food to be absorbed through the walls of the small intestine into the bloodstream. Without healthy villi, a person becomes malnourished, no matter how much food one eats."
http://digestive.niddk.nih.gov/ddiseases/pubs/celiac/

However, this is an autoimmune issue and not just caused by anyone eating gluten and demonising gluten is not the answer. Unless, like Sara said, you have a problem with it in the first place.

Not celiac. I think you are born with celiac? More like a sensitivity...or intolerance that is developed over time.

This is an old article about a study that was done...

http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/379089

Mind you I am not touting this as gospel. I have read other articles like this and it does weigh on my mind me being from the south. People eat bread religiously down here. We even have annual festivals centered around battering/breading anything and everything then deep frying it.

Deep fried Snickers anyone?

So yes. I'm a little biased against it lol. Being fat is normal down here.

Any article that contains "It is pretty much a scientific fact at this point." immediately makes me think otherwise. That kind of phrasing is what people use for arguments when they don't have the actual data to back it up. If there are enough studies conclusively proving it a scientific fact, then you would call it a scientific fact and name all the fancy studies that did so. When you don't have that data, but might have some studies that lean in your direction, you would use the qualifier "pretty much" knowing that all people will focus on is the scientific fact part, and then if it all goes south later, you can say well you didn't actually claim it to be a fact, just that it was pretty much considered one.


There are some things I agree with. Many things, not so much.