Does Non-Caeliac Gulten Intolerance Actually Exist?

[wyldwolf]

Sorry if I'm late with this or it's been posted before. Fascinating pieces here. My wife is into food woo and even the mere suggestion of the topics in these articles can cause a knock down drag out.

Does Non-Caeliac Gulten Intolerance Actually Exist?

http://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/does-non-caeliac-gulten-intolerance-actually-exist

Non-Celiac Gluten Sensitivity May Not Exist

http://www.realclearscience.com/blog/2014/05/gluten_sensitivity_may_not_exist.html

Farewell to gluten free: Why we are so easily fooled by pseudoscience and marketing gimmicks when it comes to food

http://news.nationalpost.com/2014/03/28/farewell-to-gluten-free-why-we-are-so-easily-fooled-by-pseudoscience-and-marketing-gimmicks-when-it-comes-to-food/

[Warpy]

1. "Wheat belly" is likely a combination of hypochondria and mild lactose intolerance

Allergy is something else again.

[Archae]

2. That's the key word here: "Marketing"

"Gluten-free"

"GMO-free"

"Natural"

"Organic"

"Low-fat"

And so on...

[LostOne4Ever]

3. Thanks for posting this

My family was giving me a hard time for calling Dr. Woo.....sorry Dr. Oz, a quack for peddling that bullshit on TV the other day. He was talking to some guy peddling a book claiming carbs and glutens were the reason behind every known disease to man from Parkinson's disease to Alzheimer's.

But then again, every time my family has that show on that quack is peddling some sort of bullshit woo or another. How did he ever get a MD?

[Orrex]

4. Gee... When I've mentioned this in GD I've been stomped on for it

Thou shalt not doubt the self-diagnosis of nebulous, made-up maladies.

[SidDithers]

5. Whether it does or not, I'm glad people think it does...

my daughter has Celiac Disease (intestinal biopsy confirmed), and the gluten-intolerant movement has created an entire industry of gluten-free options that she can get.

Without the market for gluten-free food, we wouldn't have nearly the number of gluten-free choices that exist now.

Sid

[LeftishBrit]

6. I have no idea...

but I think that it's best if people 'listen to their bodies' as regards what they eat. People may for various reasons find some foods more conducive to their well-being than others. I'm not sure that this is best put into a neat little box of 'X intolerance'; but I think people's dietary preferences should, where possible, be respected.

I have Crohn's disease, and find that dietary management, chosen by trial and error, helps me to stay on a low dosage of medication. I don't have any gluten intolerance, real or assumed; but I do find that many (not all) high-fibre foods are indigestible for me, and thus make me feel unwell.