There was an article in the major on-line magazine "Slate" that was fairly dismissive of the gluten-free "fad" diet for those without a CD diagnosis. It was a somewhat mixed article, as the author did get a comment from Dr. Alessio Fasano, but then says "Not every doctor agrees with him".
Throwing Out the Wheat: Are we being too tolerant of gluten-intolerance?
http://www.slate.com/id/2223745/pagenum/all/#p2
Article on the gluten-free "fad" diet
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Article on the gluten-free "fad" diet
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Hi Rosie,
Thanks for posting the link to an interesting, but misguided article. Here's the main problem with that article - the author starts out pretending to offer an impartial viewpoint, but he ends up with a rather thinly-veiled, and biased article, and in the process, he attempts to back up his viewpoint with "fake-scientific" graphs, pretending that they represent valid facts, when in reality, they are nothing but irrelevant fabrications, based on pseudoscience. Note that the graphs are all based on "Newspaper Citations". Since when do newspaper citations represent anything other than journalists' personal views of items that they feel might be interesting enough to sell a newspaper? They have no basis in scientific reality - they're merely articles designed to capture the interest of readers, and thereby sell newspapers.
This is simply another example of a journalist attempting to create science, where none exists, in order to sway public opinion. Besides the fact that it's none of his business what anyone else chooses to eat, if "fad" diets are so bad, why isn't he campaigning to make them illegal, instead of griping about them?
Tex
Thanks for posting the link to an interesting, but misguided article. Here's the main problem with that article - the author starts out pretending to offer an impartial viewpoint, but he ends up with a rather thinly-veiled, and biased article, and in the process, he attempts to back up his viewpoint with "fake-scientific" graphs, pretending that they represent valid facts, when in reality, they are nothing but irrelevant fabrications, based on pseudoscience. Note that the graphs are all based on "Newspaper Citations". Since when do newspaper citations represent anything other than journalists' personal views of items that they feel might be interesting enough to sell a newspaper? They have no basis in scientific reality - they're merely articles designed to capture the interest of readers, and thereby sell newspapers.
This is simply another example of a journalist attempting to create science, where none exists, in order to sway public opinion. Besides the fact that it's none of his business what anyone else chooses to eat, if "fad" diets are so bad, why isn't he campaigning to make them illegal, instead of griping about them?
Tex
It is suspected that some of the hardest material known to science can be found in the skulls of GI specialists who insist that diet has nothing to do with the treatment of microscopic colitis.
