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  • tigersword
    tigersword Posts: 8,059 Member
    prettykitty1515 wrote: »
    NextPage wrote: »
    I do not doubt that being gluten free is a good idea if you have an illness or condition that will be reduced and/or eliminated if you go gluten free. However, health studies show that this is a small segment of the population - less than 1-2 percent. However, the gluten free product and Wheat Belly type diet book folks are not sensitive people that want to help people with serious health problems have a better quality of life. They are making millions of dollars claiming that gluten is the devil and we will all lose weight (and will only be healthy) if we go gluten free. Many of the gluten free products are processed items, with high sugar content, low nutritional value, poor taste, and a higher price than regular more natural products. In contrast to the much, much smaller population of people with gluten related disorders, there is a very large population with obesity and this is causing heart attacks, stroke, diabetes etc. We need to concentrate on advice about eating less and exercising more rather than going gluten free, fat free, or whatever other elimination buzzword 2015 will bring.

    Nice try. If you read the book Wheat Belly Totally Health by Dr. William Davis, you will learn that the gluten-free products are just as bad for you, if not worse, than products with gluten (unless you have celiac). And with respect to making money, you don't think the founders of Myfitnesspal are making, or seeking to make, a ton of money?
    Wheat Belly is basically a work of fiction. It's been thoroughly discredited by mainstream science. And what does myfitnesspal have to do with anything? It's a database, they don't care what you eat.


    As for the rest of this debate, I'll just leave this here.
  • NextPage
    NextPage Posts: 609 Member
    edited January 2015
    prettykitty1515 wrote: »
    NextPage wrote: »
    I do not doubt that being gluten free is a good idea if you have an illness or condition that will be reduced and/or eliminated if you go gluten free. However, health studies show that this is a small segment of the population - less than 1-2 percent. However, the gluten free product and Wheat Belly type diet book folks are not sensitive people that want to help people with serious health problems have a better quality of life. They are making millions of dollars claiming that gluten is the devil and we will all lose weight (and will only be healthy) if we go gluten free. Many of the gluten free products are processed items, with high sugar content, low nutritional value, poor taste, and a higher price than regular more natural products. In contrast to the much, much smaller population of people with gluten related disorders, there is a very large population with obesity and this is causing heart attacks, stroke, diabetes etc. We need to concentrate on advice about eating less and exercising more rather than going gluten free, fat free, or whatever other elimination buzzword 2015 will bring.

    Nice try. If you read the book Wheat Belly Totally Health by Dr. William Davis, you will learn that the gluten-free products are just as bad for you, if not worse, than products with gluten (unless you have celiac). And with respect to making money, you don't think the founders of Myfitnesspal are making, or seeking to make, a ton of money?

    My point was that most gluten free processed food aren't good for you. Not sure about the use of "nice try" when we seem to be in agreement on this.

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