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The Gluten Syndrome
It's hard to change isn't it, particularly when one does not fully understand why. This article reflects the social confusion that results from a ''party'' that has gone many decades too long. We've had too much fun with sugar and processed food, chemicals, etc. Now we are so toxic and messed up that we can't digest ''real'' food and it has ...
Posted to Science by jka8168 on August 12, 2009
Gluten Intolerance is Important
Gluten intolerance is not a nuisance, as this writer blatantly shouts. It's a rare condition that affects 1 in 123 people in America. It is a safe way to eat foods that otherwise uneccessarily add gluten to bind or clump the food together. Without gluten, food products crumble and don't stick as well. Cookies, crackers and the like turn to dust ...
Posted to Science by sunnydays on August 1, 2009
Personal responsibility, people?
This article was among the bigger loads of hogwash I've ever read. Genetics plays ''more'' of a role in obesity than behavior and diet? Bull. Travel some. Go to Asia. Maybe the Mediterranean. People are thin there. There simply aren't chubby children scarfing down Happy Meals everywhere you look (like there are here). But Asian and ...
Posted to Green Room by ENH on July 11, 2008