What Do You Think About This Radical Idea?

[tex]

http://www.celiac.com/st_prod.html?p_prodid=1469

Note that this research project was done in France, a country where people "live to eat", and restaurant menus are filled with "decadent" offerings - IOW, as a society, they may not assign a high priority to eating a healthy diet, (as if our restaurant menus in this country offer only "healthy" choices, and we don't love to eat. LOL). Also note that the fourth paragraph from the bottom contains an error. It says:

Patients with silent celiac disease had a lower mean age at the time of their first gluten free diet compared to patients with silent celiac disease (14.4±5 vs 40.1±47 months, p<0.05).

I would make a WAEG, that statement should be corrected to read:

Patients with silent celiac disease had a lower mean age at the time of their first gluten free diet compared to patients with latent celiac disease (14.4±5 vs 40.1±47 months, p<0.05).

I'm curious. How many of you think that some people who are sensitive to gluten, might not have to avoid it all their lives? I've included a poll to tally the opinions.

Tex

[mle_ii]

Yes, I'm the lone ranger here on this poll. :) Didn't quite have the option I would chose, but it's close. I think that there are exceptions to this, but I believe that most folks who are gluten sensitive will eventually be able to eat gluten again once the underlying problem is addressed. But then I don't think that eating gluten is good for you anyways. LOL :)

[cludwig]

Hi Tex,

I am with Mike on this one as well. I think we might get to where we can digestively handle it in the short term but that it is not good for anyone long term who genetically can't handle it. Just because we might get to the point where we can handle it...there will be no way to tell if it's doing internal damage...so I am not going to eat it.

Love,
Cristi