Please! Let us get some sense and get off of this “gluten free” kick.If you do not have celiac disease (rare) or a gluten allergy (also rare) you do not need gluten free foods. In fact, they can be dangerous because gluten free foods tend to also be lower in nutritional value (check the label).
I et what waz shoved at me, I didn’t die from it and neither did the kids born my age. Now the world’s diet seems to be controlled by ‘the latest sensitivity discovery’ and the cure for it as published by some hyper-excited 22 y/o ‘health-ninny’ on Yahoo ‘news’.. I really woe for our future. (again, I say ‘sigh’)
“That’s rare enough those people should just be killed off, with gluten.”.If it killed them, it would be over, but it seldom ~ if ever ~ kills, just makes them feel badly. Most likely it used to be rarer even though wheat and similar gluten sources were the main food source for many generations..The infants probably were fed mother’s milk longer, gluten free in the critical formative years.
One of my best friends has Celiac disease in a severe form. It has gotten worse in the last few years. We traced down and found out that the GMO wheat also had insect resistance that had an unexpected side effect that damaged the gut bacteria that aided in the digestion of and the bodies resistance to gluten. This made the impact of the disease even worse, Another fact Big Ag and Big Chem do not want to spread around is that the incidence of Celiac Disease is increasing. All hail Big Pharm. And by the by, our politicians are still bought and paid not to believe or fight this.
Cheerios are now gluten free!I certainly hope they still taste the same! Most foods “claimed” to be gluten free taste… well maybe “taste” is the wrong word to use! Yuck might be a better fit!
That’s the first paragraph of the Wikipedia article on “Genetically_modified_wheat”, but it appears that the reference is the USDA, which of course only discusses US crops.
http://www.ers.usda.gov/topics/crops/wheat/background.aspx#.UbTFBPYaePU. “In addition, U.S. food processors are wary of consumer reaction to products containing genetically modified (GM) wheat, so no GM wheat is commercially grown in the United States.”
@DavidHuieGreenwhat is your info source?I have read several times from different sources that what cashew jim wrote is truewish I had the sources to quote to you".https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetically_modified_wheat.There is much fear of genetic modification.Some people become convinced their fears are real.Then they quote each other and dramatize what they think they know..Sadly, many fear every gene is the very essence of whatever they fear.A gene in a shrimp may help make some other organism more productive or less fragile. That single gene is very unlikely to make it smell shrimpy of have claws or any other thing which take thousands of genes work in tandem..It is unlikely to make an organism that outperforms others outside a particular environment..For example, the ability to tolerate an herbicide is not the same as making the herbicide in the first place. The ability to tolerate frost doesn’t mean it’s always frosty..You might notice some research has gone into producing wheat with LESS of the protein GLUTEN. It would be funny if the thing the celiac disease person most needs is what he most fears: GMO wheat, modified to not make him sick.
Argythree over 8 years ago
So gluten is worse than ‘eye of newt’ now? Whatevs…
JanBic Premium Member over 8 years ago
Please! Let us get some sense and get off of this “gluten free” kick.If you do not have celiac disease (rare) or a gluten allergy (also rare) you do not need gluten free foods. In fact, they can be dangerous because gluten free foods tend to also be lower in nutritional value (check the label).
tom over 8 years ago
I think he’s mocking the gluten free nonsense rather than joining it. Well mocked, I’d say.
Bebop Pop over 8 years ago
Another bash on gluten. Without gluten, your bread would lose it’s nice structure and texture. And, gluten IS a protein.
rshive over 8 years ago
Could be worse. She could add kale extract.
JP Steve Premium Member over 8 years ago
In my day school lunches ran on peanut butter — yet the peanut allergies are still with us.
Goliard Premium Member over 8 years ago
I always keep a shaker of extra gluten on my dining table.
neverenoughgold over 8 years ago
Oh cripes!
NoSleepTil_BKLYN over 8 years ago
Witches Be Loco!
unca jim over 8 years ago
I et what waz shoved at me, I didn’t die from it and neither did the kids born my age. Now the world’s diet seems to be controlled by ‘the latest sensitivity discovery’ and the cure for it as published by some hyper-excited 22 y/o ‘health-ninny’ on Yahoo ‘news’.. I really woe for our future. (again, I say ‘sigh’)
Thomas & Tifffany Connolly over 8 years ago
There is always a point you should go past!
David Huie Green ForceIsAUsefulFiction over 8 years ago
“That’s rare enough those people should just be killed off, with gluten.”.If it killed them, it would be over, but it seldom ~ if ever ~ kills, just makes them feel badly. Most likely it used to be rarer even though wheat and similar gluten sources were the main food source for many generations..The infants probably were fed mother’s milk longer, gluten free in the critical formative years.
CashewJim over 8 years ago
One of my best friends has Celiac disease in a severe form. It has gotten worse in the last few years. We traced down and found out that the GMO wheat also had insect resistance that had an unexpected side effect that damaged the gut bacteria that aided in the digestion of and the bodies resistance to gluten. This made the impact of the disease even worse, Another fact Big Ag and Big Chem do not want to spread around is that the incidence of Celiac Disease is increasing. All hail Big Pharm. And by the by, our politicians are still bought and paid not to believe or fight this.
neverenoughgold over 8 years ago
Cheerios are now gluten free!I certainly hope they still taste the same! Most foods “claimed” to be gluten free taste… well maybe “taste” is the wrong word to use! Yuck might be a better fit!
markmoss1 over 8 years ago
That’s the first paragraph of the Wikipedia article on “Genetically_modified_wheat”, but it appears that the reference is the USDA, which of course only discusses US crops.
http://www.ers.usda.gov/topics/crops/wheat/background.aspx#.UbTFBPYaePU. “In addition, U.S. food processors are wary of consumer reaction to products containing genetically modified (GM) wheat, so no GM wheat is commercially grown in the United States.”
David Huie Green ForceIsAUsefulFiction over 8 years ago
@DavidHuieGreenwhat is your info source?I have read several times from different sources that what cashew jim wrote is truewish I had the sources to quote to you".https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetically_modified_wheat.There is much fear of genetic modification.Some people become convinced their fears are real.Then they quote each other and dramatize what they think they know..Sadly, many fear every gene is the very essence of whatever they fear.A gene in a shrimp may help make some other organism more productive or less fragile. That single gene is very unlikely to make it smell shrimpy of have claws or any other thing which take thousands of genes work in tandem..It is unlikely to make an organism that outperforms others outside a particular environment..For example, the ability to tolerate an herbicide is not the same as making the herbicide in the first place. The ability to tolerate frost doesn’t mean it’s always frosty..You might notice some research has gone into producing wheat with LESS of the protein GLUTEN. It would be funny if the thing the celiac disease person most needs is what he most fears: GMO wheat, modified to not make him sick.